Semenya pulls no punches in the prologue to the young readers’ adaptation of her memoir. “I have what is called a difference of sex development,” she explains. “To put it simply, on the outside I am female and I have a vagina, but I do not have a uterus.” These details become relevant as Semenya describes, in painful detail, her experience with medicalized discrimination as she underwent invasive exams, hormone replacement therapy (with terrible side effects), and legal battles to be allowed to race in the 2012 Olympics. The beginning of the narrative struggles with cohesion, but Semenya tells her story in an intimate, loose, conversational tone that will make readers feel close to her. Her story is frustrating and tragic, providing an early example of attitudes displayed in the anti-trans movement currently spanning the globe. Semenya, who writes that her Pedi community always “accepted me as I was and never made me feel like an outsider,” asserts her own understanding of herself and her gender in ways that sometimes don’t align with Western medical or activist frameworks and language. While she was assigned female at birth and asserts that she’s a “proud Black woman…a daughter, a sister, a wife, and…a mother,” this story will resonate with anyone who’s felt like their gender and their body are right for them but wrong for the world.