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More of a question, but this is a thread about texts...I'm an English major, and my primary area of interest is children's and young adult fiction. I'm taking a YA Lit class at Penn and we were discussing the subgenre of "issue" books for teens - there are quite a lot of them, but I'm having trouble (and I think the rest of the class was, too), thinking of those that specifically deal with gender identity. There's obviously a fair amount of books for younger readers that deal with the issue of teen sexuality/sexuality in general, specifically the coming out story (which seems to be the only kind of gay teen ficiton available, though that's a whole 'nother rant), but I'm thinking more along the lines of a story of a transgendered or intersexed teen, or just one struggling with issues of definition/self-identification. Seems like, with the popularity of Middlesex in the adult genre, there would be a market for that sort of thing. But you never know with mainstream publishing.