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Fairest By Meredith Talusan
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Meredith Talusan Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. Citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as. Fairest by Meredith Talusan; GLAAD: Examining Ten Years of Transgender Images on Television; the Human Rights Campaign Foundation: Report on Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People. In her debut memoir, the journalist bravely opens up about her experiences as a transgender Filipino immigrant with albinism.