Ryan Sallans’ Transforming Manhood is not just about contemporary trans issues, but about the human issues associated with human transformation such as mortality, finding peace and love within oneself, facing and accepting fear, and the complexity of family as a work in progress. Sallans is at his most vulnerable. While his “scars from the gender-affirming surgeries have faded, some now unseen,” his story is his body, a beautiful “trail map of life’s journey.”
—Loren Kleinman, If I Don’t Make It, I Love You