With his powerful memoir, Transforming Manhood, Ryan Sallans has provided the world with a true gift. With each chapter, Sallans bares his soul with intention, vulnerability, and power. In doing so, he invites the reader in to not only his gender journey, but also to delve into our assumptions about our own gender assumptions. This memoir stands along with the great ones — Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Michelle Obama’s Becoming. With each page, there is tenderness, respect, and love even beyond our gender journeys that readers will feel for this thing we call “life.” Sallans has issued a call for us to truly live our lives while we can. I didn’t want the book to end, and that alone is one of the messages Sallans leaves the reader with about our own lives. A true gem!
—Anneliese Singh, PhD, LPC
Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,
University of Georgia, and author of The Racial Healing Handbook
and The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook