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Headline is publishing a memoir by Elle columnist, performance artist and musician Rhyannon Styles, documenting her transition from male to female.
Commissioning editor Christina Demosthenous bought world rights to The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is direct from the author, to publish in June 2017.
Styles - whose Elle column "The New Girl" detailed her experiences of gender transition from 2012 - will share her "very personal" story to paint a picture of what it’s like to be transgender. The contemporary memoir will be "redemptive" and "explode myths", according to Headline, its aim to promote understanding of the transgender experience as well as the importance of being true to yourself. The book is for everyone regardless of what their own story is, emphasises Styles.
Styles is a founder member of cabaret troupe The LipSinkers and her career highlights are said to include a show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for Armani, dancing with Kylie Minogue on ITV, and roller-skating naked at the Barbican art gallery. She was also named in the Independent’s Rainbow List as "One to Watch".
Demosthenous said: "Rhyannon Styles is a star of the transgender community and we’re incredibly proud to be publishing her on the Headline list. In The New Girl, Rhyannon bravely – and with brutal honesty – invites us on her journey of transitioning from male to female. Emotional, powerful and utterly upfront, her story is also narrated with her trademark wit and wry sense of humour. Rhyannon has lived a life like no other and The New Girl promises to be the transgender memoir on everyone’s lips this year.’
Styles said: "The New Girl is a very modern slice of trans life. I'm thrilled that Headline and my editor Christina Demosthenous have given me a platform to share my story. My memoir will allow people access to the transgender experience, providing understanding and insight, and lighting up the electrifying process of transformation."