John Boyne (author of boy in the striped pajamas) is bringing out a book called My brother's name is Jessica, and this is simply not acceptable, apparently.
He's written an article here:
www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-why-i-support-trans-rights-but-reject-the-word-cis-1.3843005?fbclid=IwAR0WqWp2a3dIu-4pxDKS7k9XQO5lZR4PCKh_AFhAeTRoZMm0TmuiCBvoUjQ
Doc and co are going nuts at him. Not as nuts as they would if it was written by a straight woman, I imagine, but even so.
It's about time the world of books got stuck into this debate. They've been very slow on this one.