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Carrie Kills A Man: A Memoir

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And if you’d like to listen to it rather than read it, it’s available as an audiobook – narrated by me! There were definitely times when I had to ask myself, ‘are you really sure you want people to know about this? Carrie holds nothing back and takes us step by step on her journey through elements I would never even think of.

I think being Scottish means I’m just naturally drawn to that – we Scots are brilliant at mining comedy from pretty dark seams sometimes, and we’ll tell the most horrendously embarrassing stories to make our friends laugh.

It also highlights the difficulties in every aspect of her life that Carrie has encountered along the way - from casual misgendering, to deliberate and outright aggression. In a world where trans people are being demonised and othered it’s important that memoirs like Carries exists. Carrie not only takes us through the intricacies of coming out as trans, but also invites us to see where our experiences align with hers, deftly puncturing the divisive rhetoric that often dominates this topic. You can push a culture war, ban books and try to bring back Section 28, but that knowledge and understanding and empathy is out there now. And the portrait being painted of us is a monstrous one; it’s like people are competing with one another to see who can make up the nastiest stuff about us.

It’s about growing up weird, escaping into pop music and trying to hold things together until you can’t hold them any longer – and what happens when you have to hurl a hand grenade into the middle of an apparently perfect life.I think probably the biggest lesson I’ve learnt is that most people aren’t playing life on easy mode; I just thought they were because as an apparently straight cisgender guy I was playing life on easy mode. If you’re looking for a book that cuts through all the noise and takes you on a journey that explores the very personal realities of being transgender in Scotland and the UK but also discusses the social commentary and history in a way that feels really open and accessible then this is the book for you. When more people think they've seen a ghost than met a trans person, it's easy for bad actors to exploit that - and they do, as you can see from the headlines and online. Viviciously Scots, angry in all the right bits and an author who actually places importance in the good bits of being trans, this book is a gorgeous, real and emotional memoir of not just the author, but every trans person in some degree.

Carrie Kills A Man is a bit like a Scottish version of Titanic where the boat is my life, the iceberg is me being trans and nobody wants to paint me like one of their French girls. It's amazing to see how the impacts of social media and the Internet have changed so negatively too. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The one thing I really shines through in this book though was pure joy at the times when Carrie discovers who she is.

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