If you're gonna be transgender and all, you're going to have to be a lot more careful. You won't be able to throw up on every bully you meet.

She told Kelly about her bag of girls’ magazines, and about Mom taking it. “But that’s not fair!” Kelly was indignant. “You didn’t steal them! What right does she have to take them from you?” “Sometimes transgender people don’t get rights.” George had read on the Internet about transgender people being treated unfairly. “That’s awful.” “I know.

Kelly took a deep breath. "And I'm sorry I ignored you last week." She scratched her neck. "And you know what? If you think you're a girl..."George braced for Kelly's next words."Then I think you're a girl too!

Scott looked at George as if his sibling made sense to him for the first time. George had never been gladder to have an older brother.

She had genuinely started to believe that if people could see her onstage as Charlotte, maybe they would see that she was a girl offstage too.

George stopped. It was such a short, little question, but she couldn't make her mouth form the sounds. Mom, what if I'm a girl?

The play passed by quickly, and yet it seemed to George as though she had been onstage since the beginning of time, as if she were born there and had only now found herself where she had always been.