Assigned at Birth: From Girlhood to Manhood in Middle America

Update

This newly created blog is now actively and surprisingly in the self-publishing phase of its life. Many heartfelt thanks to a dear friend and author who is encouraging and helping me to do so.

Updates on the publication date and where to get Assigned at Birth: From Girlhood to Manhood in Middle America will appear on this blog. We have given ourselves three months to make it so.

Assigned at Birth: From Girlhood to Manhood in Middle America

Assigned at Birth: From Girlhood to Manhood in Middle America is a fearless memoir in which Scott Gerdes stumbles along a trail from his 1960s Iowa “boyhood”—shadowed by rigid gender rules, society-induced fears and family heartbreak—to receiving full gender-affirming surgery. With biting humor and searing honesty, Gerdes battles heartbreak, stigma, and near-fatal lows, refusing to let the world define him. This is more than a coming-of-age story—it’s a rallying cry for anyone fighting to live and love as their true self.