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Books that feature transgender main characters that are by authors who identify as trans. (Or nonfiction books focusing on transgender issues by trans authors.)
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Grey Dawn
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Nyri A. Bakkalian (Goodreads Author)
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Misery Loves Company
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Which One Is The Bridge
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True Colours: My Life as the First Openly Transgender Officer in the British Armed Forces
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4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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"Love and Comets" and Other Stories (Gillian's Notebook #1)
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Gillian Ybabez (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Viscera
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Gabrielle Squailia (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 484 ratings
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
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4.26 avg rating — 2,981 ratings
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The Dragon of Ynys
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Minerva Cerridwen (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 812 ratings
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Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show
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Backwards Day
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4.40 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Trans Voices
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3.46 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Homeward Bound, and other stories (Trans Women Writers Collective booklet series, #1)
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Gillian Ybabez (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Just Enough Rain
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4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Rough Paradise
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3.38 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Transgender Behind Prison Walls
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Trans-Affirming Magical Care
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Ajuan Mance (Goodreads Author)
4.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 83,
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One in Every Crowd
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4.06 avg rating — 747 ratings
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The Trans Partner Handbook: A Guide for Partners of Trans People
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Jo Green (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 82,
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| 517 |
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Look Who's Morphing
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Tom Cho (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 380 ratings
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| 517 |
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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
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Devon Price (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 23,641 ratings
score: 82,
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| 521 |
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Trans Desire/Affective Cyborgs
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Micha Cárdenas (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 81,
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The Transsexual From Tobago.
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Defying Convention
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Cecil Wilde (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Weight of Them
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4.67 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities
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Micha Cárdenas (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 80,
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Style of Attack Report
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Metropolarity (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Four Profound Weaves
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R.B. Lemberg (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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Canary
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3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men
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4.12 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Right Thing to Do at the Time
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Dov Zeller (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 78,
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I Am a Woman
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Dialectic of the Flesh (Body Language, 8)
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4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Finding Masculinity: Female to Male Transition in Adulthood
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4.12 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future
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Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws
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4.01 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
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Gender Blending; Confronting the Limits of Duality
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3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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4.44 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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The Transgender Issue (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 4, No 2, 1998) (Volume 4)
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 72,
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Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Expanded Second Edition
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Moonsword
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Tranifesto
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Oath: An Anthology of New (Queer) Heroes
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Audrey Redpath (Editor)
4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Autobiography of an Androgyne
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3.53 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Smut Peddler
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C. Spike Trotman (Editor)
4.16 avg rating — 701 ratings
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The Female-Impersonators
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3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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whatever.odt
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J.D. O'Meara (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Secret Woman: A Mystery
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4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Pholomolo: No Man No Woman
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender
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3.86 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Man into woman: A transsexual autobiography
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Trans-Sexual: Transgressive Erotica for butches, femmes, tops, bottoms, leather folk, dyke-boys, sissy-men, drag kings, drag queens, transsexuals, the intersexed and other Gender Queers
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Season of the Witch
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3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Transgender Debate
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Stephen Whittle (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 57,
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Respect and Equality
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Stephen Whittle (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 56,
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Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers
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Hazel Newlevant (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
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3.92 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
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4.02 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Black Iris
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Leah Raeder (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
score: 51,
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Letters For My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom In Retrospect
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Andrea James (editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Since I Moved In
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Trace Peterson (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Trinkets Mashed Into a Blender
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Trace Peterson (Goodreads Author)
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Real Talk for Teens: Jump-Start Guide to Gender Transitioning and Beyond
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Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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At Home On The Stroll: My Twenty Years As A Prostitute In Canada
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4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Frankly Kellie: Becoming a Woman in a Man’s World
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bent
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Teri Louise Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Confessions of an Empty Purse
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A Tale of Two Masks: A Transgender Psychopath’s Search for Realization and Restraint
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Jessica B. Kelly (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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What Took You So Long?
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Wrapped In Blue: A Journey of Discovery
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Goddess: Memoir of a Transsexual
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Kenna / A Transgender Life
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My Life Until Death
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Squirrel Cage
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Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will
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Confessions of a Transsexual Porn Star
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Second Serve
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No Way Renee: The Second Half of My Notorious Life
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Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy Seal's Journey to Coming Out Transgender
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Kristin Beck (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 441 ratings
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The Making of a Man: Notes on Transsexuality
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An UnSpoken Compromise
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A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story
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Bodycage: A transgender autobiography
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A Lonley Heart: A True Transgender Story
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Does Pat Schmatz identify as trans and/or genderqueer? I was looking this book up today and couldn't find any confirmation either way.
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R.J. wrote: "Does Pat Schmatz identify as trans and/or genderqueer? I was looking this book up today and couldn't find any confirmation either way."I found it on the #OwnVoices tag on twitter: https://twitter.com/aboredauthor/stat...
But to be honest I can't find any evidence other than that lone tweet that Pat identifies as trans, so I've removed my vote for that one.
Does Leah Raeder identify as trans? I also couldn't tell from the descriptions whether her books on this list had trans characters.
Levi wrote: "Does Leah Raeder identify as trans? I also couldn't tell from the descriptions whether her books on this list had trans characters."According to her twitter, she identifies as nonbinary.
Not sure about the others, but I believe Leah Raeder's forthcoming "Bad Boy" will have an FTM main character.
YA authors James Dawson and Zac Brewer (formerly Heather Brewer) also recently came out as trans. Not sure if any of their work has transgender characters, though.
Been cheeky and added my own books. They are all real-world stories (apart from one short SF/Horror and a single horror), fiction, and the central characters are trans.
Seems to fit. Qwo-Li Driskill appears to be on the trans spectrum according to their profile.
I'm a trans author and most of my books feature trans characters, but as no one has even heard of them, and I can't add my own books, I fear they'll never appear on this list :(If anyone out there is kind enough to just add one book of mine - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... - to this list I'd be deeply grateful :)
Rachel wrote: "I'm a trans author and most of my books feature trans characters, but as no one has even heard of them, and I can't add my own books, I fear they'll never appear on this list :(If anyone out ther..."
I feel your need---me too!
Not entirely sure how they identify re: transness, but we're buying a few books from Arcadia Missa by authors who use 'they' pronouns or ID as genderqueer (sufficient for inclusion at GCLL, if not on this list): 'Metabolize, If Able' (Clay AD), 'Virus' (Linda Stupart) and 'On Hell' (Johanna Hedva).
I believe that Arlene Stein (Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity) is cis
I want to add two of my favorite authors:By Gabe Cole Novoa:
- The Wicked Bargain (enby transmasc)
- The Diablo's Curse (genderfluid)
- Most Ardently (transmasc)
By Andrew Joseph White:
- Hell Followed With Us (transmasc)
- The Spirit Bares its Teeth (transmasc)
- Compound Fracture (transmasc)
By F. T. Lukens (not sure how they identify specifically, but they use they/them pronouns)
- Spell Bound (enby)
- Otherwordly (enby)
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