The magical trip to Thailand that “resolves” the gender issue isn’t very effective. The story is told through the parents’ perspective and at times is rambling and incoherent. Gender dysphoria is trendy right now, but the reality of transgender is far from life at Disney. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a fairy tale world. While I didn’t personally agree with the decisions the family made (often even the individual members of the family couldn’t agree), I could totally understand the parents’ wish to do whatever it took to make their child(ren) happy. This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel follows this family as they try to support Claude’s life as Poppy. Claude knows what he wants to be when he grows up. Claude is the youngest of five in a loving family.
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