Amateur : A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee business who had Down’s syndrome and

who had Down’s syndrome and died in 1998

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Amateur : A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee business who had Down’s syndrome andShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non FictionIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience of boxing learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body McBee examines the