My Brother's Name is Jessica

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This was also addressed by Jason saying he uses the disabled bathroom because he can’t use the girls and he doesn’t feel comfortable going to the men’s. Boyne said his change of heart had been prompted by the row over comments made by Roisin Murphy, the pop singer. It’s so important to have great representation for minorities, and with the growing acceptance of transgender people, but also the vocal transphobia, it’s certainly important for young people to see positive representation.

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Boyne, best-known for his children’s Holocaust novel The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, has also authored several books that draw on his experience as a gay man.

I’ve never been to any of those places, I’ve never done any of those things and nobody ever criticised me for it. And it’s not that I set out to annoy people, but I do want my work to be more interesting in that way than perhaps it once was. Putting aside the book’s representation of trans issues for a moment (yes, we will get to it), even just in terms of Jessica as a story, there is very little that I found I could enjoy. As with the awful ITV drama, Butterflies, which aired last year, I’m saying the story shouldn’t have been written at all. Irish Author John Boyne Faces Backlash From Trans Activists Over New Novel Boyne, whose children's novel about a transgender girl will be published on Thursday, has also written an article in which he rejects the term "cis.

My Take: “My Brother’s Name is Jessica” by John Boyne My Take: “My Brother’s Name is Jessica” by John Boyne

John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, has hit back at those who criticised him for writing about a boy struggling to cope with the transitioning of his sibling.Attending McClean’s trial prompted Boyne to give his testimony to the Garda; he can’t say much more about it at the moment, because it is still in their hands. In fact, Boyne is a self-declared supporter of the nebulous “trans community” and, as I said in my previous blog about him, he is so much in denial about the hatred, bigotry and violence promoted by so many of those who’ve adopted the ‘trans’ label, that he can’t bear to believe it’s true, in spite of the wealth of evidence.

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In his article for The Irish Times, Boyne wrote about the process of writing My Brother’s Name Is Jessica, which follows a 12-year-old boy as he learns to accept his trans sibling.His experiences at school, combined with the fact that homosexuality wasn’t decriminalised until Boyne was in his third year of university and that, by that time, the Aids crisis was in full spate, feel like so much to contend with that self-reproach is simply too cruel.