Detransition, Baby
A trans woman, her detransitioned ex, and the ex's pregnant cis boss try to build a family together. Peters wrote a novel about trans life that's also a sharp, witty New York comedy of manners about parenthood, desire, and what counts as a real family. It became the first novel by an openly trans woman to be nominated for a major literary prize, and it reads like it was always supposed to exist.
Peters writes essays her characters have to stand around delivering; whole chapters pause so someone can theorize about trans womanhood for the cheap seats. Katrina stays the thinnest of the three, mostly a problem to be discussed. After all that smart talk, the ending simply opens its hands and declines to decide anything.
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
