Alex Myers
Author, Transgender Advocate
Gender Identity Educator
Alex speaks at schools, conferences, and libraries around the country to help communities become more gender inclusive.
Author
Author of the novels Revolutionary (Simon & Schuster, 2014), Continental Divide (University of New Orleans Press, November 2019) The Story of Silence (HarperCollins, July 2020) and the nonfiction guide Supporting Transgender Students (University of New Orleans Press 2021)
TransGender Advocate
About Alex
Alex came out as transgender in 1995, right before his senior year in high school. Since then, Alex has worked with schools and colleges to educate students, faculty, and administrators about gender identity. He has assisted dozens of schools as they redesign facilities, practices, and policies to be more gender inclusive.
Released in June 2021 from the University of New Orleans Press… Supporting Transgender Students is a guide to help schools learn the basics of what gender is and why it matters in education. Drawing on my 25 years of experience working with schools and transgender students, this book considers how transgender and gender non-conforming youth experience the classroom, the playing field, and other school contexts. Supporting Transgender Students provides a clear roadmap and practical examples for how to take action in your school to effect change and create a gender inclusive community.
A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as a starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world. There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador – Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall – he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact. That child’s name was Silence. Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves.
From University of New Orleans Press...
Advance Reader Comment:
"Simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, Continental Divide is a deeply engrossing and insightful book about love, loss, and what it means to be a man, whatever sex you were assigned at birth. It's an important book for people of any age and any gender."
Lisa Selin Davis, author of Tomboy, Lost Stars, and Belly
A Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
“Unforgettable…a tale of muskets and masquerade, of marches and mutiny, that is also an evocative portrayal of life in the Continental Army.” The New York Times
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