About to start reading this with a very open mind. Will write an honest review when finished.

Just read the introduction. Started highlighting sections that stood out as being very confused. Quickly realized that I'd probably use less highlighter overall if I instead highlighted only the reasonable parts...

One thing really stands out. The author of the introduction claims that she menstruates normally, but has a somewhat masculinized body and enlarged clitoris. She had happily lived "as a woman" until discovering that she had an intersex condition (author doesn't indicate which).

The author then asserts this means she is neither male nor female. She doesn't "fit the binary" of male & female. Once she discovered she was intersex, which she describes as being something other than male or female, she then became confused about her "gender identity."

She now claims to be gender-fluid and non-binary. She is upset nobody ever told her she was intersex, because this prevented her from being who she "truly" was. This is so confusing to me.

First, having a masculinized body and enlarged clitoris doesn't make a female less female, or something other than female. She has ovaries and menstruates normally. She is a female, full stop.

Secondly, why on Earth would simply finding out you have what under some definitions qualifies as an intersex condition cause her to suddenly not be comfortable "living as a woman", whatever that means?

Nothing about her body changed once she found out she had an intersex condition. All she now had was a name for a condition she never knew she had. Why would this send someone down a spiral of identity confusion? Dress how you want to dress. Wear makeup or not!

She said she was perfectly happy with a "woman" gender expression until she learned more about her body. Why would this random discovery about her body make her no longer happy expressing herself as she once did?

She also makes it clear that she conceives "man" and "woman" as being essentially stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, respectively. And once she convinced herself that being intersex meant she was no longer female (not true), she was no longer comfortable with femininity.

Now she can choose to identify and express herself any way she desires, but logically this makes absolutely no sense.

If I found out I was an XX male tomorrow, I don't see how this would or should impact my behavior or expression in any way whatsoever.

These are just my initial assessments of the 16 page introduction.

Now, onto Chapter 1...