The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. L’Oréal sacked her (though they rehired her in 2020), other brands dropped her and she received horrific abuse on social media. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. In 2018, Munroe’s debut authored television documentary, ‘What Makes A Woman’ premiered on major UK network Channel 4.

In July 2021 Munroe delivered a key note at One Young World conference in Munich which was applauded by attendees and became one of their standout speeches that year. I’d found myself settling for less than I deserved across the board – what I was paid, how I was treated, how I was loved. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Each chapter is focused on a theme—'Adolescence', 'Love', 'Gender', 'Race' etc—and is mostly a memoir, with some parts moving more into guide and manifesto around the central theme of the idea that everyone transitions in some way. Subsequently, she went viral for her heated debates challenging Piers Morgan and his transphobia/ sexism on Good Morning Britain. But more than that, it speaks of transitional moments we all go through in our lives, and how to recognise them as such.

Exploring change as an essential part of human experience and the fluidity of identity and relationships, as well as sexuality and gender, Bergdorf’s empowering book speaks compellingly of transition as an experience every person faces in every phase of life.Then, as she settles into her story, you come to realise the extraordinary intelligence, insight and power of this tenacious woman. Munroe Bergdorf’s Transitonal is one of those wonderfully savvy non-fiction books that uses the framework of personal memoir to tell a broader story about a specific concept. The slightly gauzy selling point of Transitional – that all of us transition, all the time, in different ways, and that should unite us – gives it a veneer of self-help, but it is much more effective as a memoir than a guide. Bergdorf relays the trials and tribulations of growing up uncomfortable with how society views who she should be in a way that is relatable to everyone, queer or otherwise. I think if they actually sat down with me and communicated in a respectful way instead of posting things about our community that are detrimental to the mental health, physical wellbeing and emotional wellbeing of trans people, they would see that trans people want what’s best for cisgender women, too.

Munroe remains committed to using her platform to champion diversity and create lasting change in the beauty industry and beyond. As I started to look more ‘feminine’, I also started confusing sexual objectification with validation. It's in this era of the complete dehumanisation of trans people that Munroe Bergdorf's debut book, Transitional , is needed more than ever. Exploring race, gender, lgbtq+ rights, and many other significantly important issues, Transitional is Munroe Bergdorf’s powerful story about how she overcame challenges and how she fought for equality and change. and in combination with this text, I couldn't help but think about how important it is to educate children and young people about sex, relationships, identifying abusive/grooming/etc.

Munroe Bergdorf lost her modeling contract with L'oreal due to comments addressing racism during the Charlottesville protest. I always find it difficult to critique someone's memoir when it's their life, and they have chosen where to draw the lines in terms of sharing.