books in the publicity department people are really working so hard and also to the publicist nicole dewey and betsy and all the people been working really hard initially super crazy time to get the message out about this book. so just want to start with the thank you. i started writing about this i think when my daughter was three or four. and that was a very different time he before either people were talking much of whether or not you should be writing about your children on the internet, and also trans kids were not at all a subject in the media. i think i was kind of naÏve when i first tried writing about i have this kid who's is doing sg different and all these feelings about that. and that was just went out into the world, went up on "parenting" magazine the day the website was close. it was never edited and it just didn't come it didn't cause a big stir. years went by and my kid came home and told us that she was a tomboy. someone had given her that word at school year and she said that was someone who like shorthair and sports. and all the time we had been watching her kind of bee