It Gets Better... Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me by Nicole Maines

It Gets Better... Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me by Nicole Maines-214 pages

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Nicole Maines played Dreamer on The CW's Supergirl TV series. Here, she writes about her journey as a transgender person growing up in Maine. She endured bullying and ridicule as a child. A male classmate went into the girl's bathroom to stalk her because he felt she was using the wrong bathroom. After that incident, the school Nicole was attending at the time forced her to use a separate bathroom and did nothing when she was bullied. Nicole and her family would later sue that school district and win, but that did little since it was years later and she was attending a different school that accepted her. Nicole also discusses her years on Supergirl, moving to Los Angeles, and her political views (briefly) among other things. This is a really good read, especially in regards to her perspective as a trans woman.