On ‘A + E’ by Ryszard Merey
Book #6 in my Trans Rights Readathon week
4 min readMar 26
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When a delicate, long-haired, deep-voiced gay boy, Asher Machnik, shows up at a new high school, bullies declare they’re uncertain of his gender and beat him up in the boy’s bathroom. Ash takes the janitor’s advice and gets a shorter haircut, but insofar as the bullies have already noticed him and might perceive him as having caved to their power…
