Thomas Page McBee

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Thomas Page McBee (born 1981)[1] is an American transgender journalist and amateur boxer. He was the first transgender man to box in Madison Square Garden,[1] which he discusses in Amateur. His first book, Man Alive, won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.[2][3]

Personal life[]

McBee was born in Hickory, North Carolina in 1981[1] and grew up outside of Pittsburgh.[4]

McBee has noted that he "knew [he] wasn’t a girl before [he] knew much of anything."[5] However, also didn't resonate with men's "jockeying power dynamics or aversion to hugs."[5] Although he decided in college that he didn't want to take hormones, his breasts caused him stress, so in his twenties, he opted for top surgery. After the surgery, he decided he was neither a man nor a woman.[4] However, two years later, he realized that although he "didn’t connect with the cultural expectations of Being a Man, [he] knew that I’d grown up and become one."[5] He began hormone replacement therapy when he was 30 years old and at 31, he received a new birth certificate from North Carolina Vital Records, an experience he described as feeling like he had been "born again."[5]

McBee currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jessica Bloom.[6][7]

Career[]

Aside from writing, McBee has served as a senior editor at Quartz and taught at City University of New York.[8]

He currently serves as an advisor at West Virginia University's Graduate School of Journalism.[8][7]

Writing[]

McBee has written regular columns in The Rumpus ("Self-Made Man"),[9] Them ("Amateur"),[10] Bitch,[11] and Pacific Standard ("The American Man").[12] His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue,[13] Glamour, Playboy, The Atlantic, VICE,[14] and other publications.

TV[]

In 2019, McBee wrote episodes for Netflix's Tales of the City and Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q.[15] He has also appeared on the documentary film No Ordinary Man and the mini-series The Art of Intersection.[15]

He's currently working on a film adaptation for Amateur.[6]

Amateur (2018)[]

Main article: Amateur (book)

Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man was published August 14, 2018 by Scribner.

The book received a starred review from Publishers Weekly,[16] as well as positive reviews from Kirkus,[17] The New Republic,[18] Buzzfeed,[19] Booklist,[20] The Rumpus,[21] The Guardian,[22] Los Angeles Review of Books,[23] and Shelf Awareness.[24][25]

Amateur was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction,[26] nominated for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction,[27] and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

Man Alive (2014)[]

Main article: Man Alive (book)

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man was published September 9, 2014 by City Lights Publishers.

The book received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly,[28] Kirkus Reviews,[29] Lambda Literary Foundation,[30] and Library Journal.[31]

Man Alive won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.[2][3]

Awards[]

Year Work Award Result Ref.
2019 Amateur Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction Finalist [26]
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist [32][33]
2018 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist [34]
2015 Man Alive American Library Association Over the Rainbow Project List Top 10 [35]
2014 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction Winner [36]

References[]

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  2. ^ a b "Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced". Lambda Literary. 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  3. ^ a b bent (2014-06-03). "Full List of 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-01-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b McBee, Page (2011-03-15). "I want to be more than just a man or a woman". Salon. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  5. ^ a b c d McBee, Thomas Page (2012-08-07). "Trans, but not like you think". Salon. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  6. ^ a b "Thomas Page McBee". Thomas Page McBee. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  7. ^ a b "Media Innovation Center | Thomas McBee". West Virginia University. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ a b "Thomas Page McBee". Catalyst. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  9. ^ "Thomas Page McBee". The Rumpus.net. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  10. ^ "Thomas Page McBee". them. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  11. ^ "Thomas Page McBee". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Articles by Thomas Page McBee". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  13. ^ Page McBee, Thomas (2019-03-26). "What Kendrick Sampson Had to Unlearn in Order to Be a Man". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "Thomas Page McBee". VICE. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ a b "Thomas Page McBee". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  16. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee. Scribner, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6874-1". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  17. ^ "Amateur". Kirkus Reviews. 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ Livingstone, Jo (2018-08-28). "A Trans Memoir Explores Masculinity In Extremis". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  19. ^ Rebolini, Arianna (2018-08-31). "35 New Books To Get Excited About This Fall". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "Amateur". Booklist. July 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride". The Rumpus.net. 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  22. ^ Guest, Katy (2018-10-26). "Amateur by Thomas Page McBee review – a trans boxer's life lessons". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ Glazner, Greg (2015-01-04). "Becoming a Man: A Memoir of Sex, Gender, Trauma, and Transformation". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ Wheeler, Dave (2018-08-14). "Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man". Shelf Awareness. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  25. ^ Wheeler, Dave (2018-07-13). "Review: Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man". Shelf Awareness. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ a b Boureau, Ella (2018-03-06). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-01-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ "The Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 announces shortlist". Baillie Gifford Prize. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  28. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee. City Lights, $15.95 trade paper (172p) ISBN 978-0-87286-624-9". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  29. ^ "Man Alive". Kirkus Reviews. 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  30. ^ Kellaway, Mitch (2014-09-15). "'Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man' by Thomas Page McBee". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  31. ^ Roberto, K. R. (2016-06-01). "Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man". Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  32. ^ Flood, Alison (2019-03-19). "Wellcome prize shortlist celebrates books about masculinity and mental illness". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  33. ^ Filgate, Michele (2019-03-19). "Awards: Wellcome Shortlist; Blue Peter Winners". Shelf Awareness. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  34. ^ "The Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 announces shortlist". Baillie Gifford Prize. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  35. ^ "Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  36. ^ "Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man (City Lights/Sister Spit)". IndieBound.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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