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Part I (Introduction - Chapter 3)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness. Atria, 2014.

• The book opens with an Author's Note. Janet Mock wrote this book mainly in the first-person, past tense. The Author's Note is written in the present tense.

• Mock notes that people featured in the book gave her permission to write about them.

• Mock prefers to use the term transgender when identifying herself. She does not use the terms real, genetic, biological, or natural to describe those who are not transgender, preferring the term cis for them.

• Mock provides her website address, JanetMock.com, for those interested in more information about her.

• In the Introduction, Mock describes how she was shopping for dresses when she got an email from Marie Claire magazine in 2011 notifying her that her personal profile about being a transgender woman was about...

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