Stay Gold

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Tobly McSmith: Stay Gold (2020, HarperCollins Publishers)

368 pages

English language

Published Sept. 6, 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-294317-0
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3 stars (5 reviews)

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Review of 'Stay Gold' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I have. A lot of feelings on this - very conflicting ones. I’ll only say that I really did not care for the literal hate crime that occurs in the last forty some pages. But like, a trans person wrote this. Dude has a right to, and it’s the kind of thing that should be talked about. It just felt extremely out of place and ultimately unnecessary.

Review of 'Stay Gold' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

I received a DRC from Edelweiss
TW: transphobia, dead naming, lesbophobia, suicidal thoughts
3.6

For Pony a new school is the perfect fresh start. When he came out as trans he received plenty of attention- some of it bad, some of it just annoying- definitely more than he actually wanted. Now, he can just be Pony, and maybe even cheerleader Georgia's boyfriend. The only problem is, he hasn't told anyone at school that he's trans yet.

Yet again I'm in the position of reading an educational book and appreciating the education its attempting to give, while also being wildly not the target demographic, so I can't say confidently whether or not it succeeds. However, the main goal of this book is not simply educating cis people, but to be the kind of book the author would have wanted to exist when he was younger. My answer to that, no matter …

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