Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Something That May Shock and Discredit You (2020) is a collection of essays by Daniel M. Lavery, co-founder of the website The Toast, about his gender transition. Lavery mixes memoir with comic reworkings of Bible stories, films, Greek myths and popular culture to describe coming out as transgender in his thirties. He writes about his family, his evangelical Christian upbringing, his marriage and the experience of changing his name and body.