CN Lester

Current publication:

TRANS LIKE ME - Virago - May 2017

An agenda-setting, emotionally engaging book on transgender identity.

What does it mean to be transgender? In this eye-opening book, CN Lester, academic and activist, takes us on a journey through some of the most pressing issues concerning the trans debate: from pronouns to Caitlyn Jenner; from feminist and LGBTQ activists, to the rise in referrals for gender variant children - all by way of insightful and moving passages about the author's own experience. Trans Like Me shows us how to strive for authenticity in a world which often seeks to limit us by way of labels.

Praise for TRANS LIKE ME:

'What a brilliant, wise, thoughtful book. Such a needed voice of calm and compassion' - Naomi Alderman

'Lester makes the most complex of subjects easy to digest. I finished with more insight and knowledge than I ever expected' Stylist

'This personal, powerful and yet humble human testimony makes a vital contribution to a debate that has too often contained more heat than light. I challenge anyone not to have both heart and mind a little more open after reading this book' Shami Chakrabarti

'Lester is a writer for our times - a moving, learned and essential voice at the razor edge of gender politics. Their work has been inspirational to me for many years. Lester writes with the compassionate authority of a person not just wise beyond their years, but beyond the age they were born into' Laurie Penny

'If you are coming out as trans, and especially if you are non-binary, now, Lester has written the book to give your cis friends' TLS