Parrotfish

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger is about a transgendered teen. Angela, mistakenly born into a girl's body, changes her name to Grady, taking the first outward step to claiming his true self.

But as all 16 year olds, he still has to go to school and deal with other people's reactions.

"People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breat implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world - even changed their nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren't supposed to change?"

Wittlinger, Ellen. (2007). Parrotfish. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers.