This is my first time reading something that focuses on transgender issues. I read this book hoping that I would get to know how much difficult their life is. I know it's a lot difficult than I can ever imagine. But I was expecting this book to focus on that more. But this book focuses mostly on the fact that trans people can have a life like everybody else. But real life is hard and cruel and not everybody is accepting and people don't want to accept things easily. It's really good reading that Amanda got great friends and a really great boyfriend who didn't understand a lot of things and still wanted to try. Maybe it would be more realistic for me if everybody was not that accepting. And in spite of that Amanda could held his head high and her friends kept supporting her.