Gender Magic - Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, and Step into Your Most Authentic Self Book

RELEASE DATE - 1 JUNE 2023

'Rae McDaniel is a leader in their generation, matching compassion with clear-sighted vision for a sex-positive future'
Emily Nagoski, PhD, author of Come As You Are and Burnout

Taking everything they know from more than a decade of working with the queer and trans community, their personal journey of gender exploration, and clinical best practices, licensed therapist, coach and speaker Rae McDaniel created the Gender Freedom Model.

A uniquely supportive narrative for gender exploration and transition grounded in queer joy, their nine-pillar model has helped thousands of transgender and nonbinary individuals explore gender through play, pleasure and freedom. And now, it can help you too.

Whether you're transgender, non-binary, cisgender or still exploring, this compassionate and practical guide will help you experience your gender in new, expansive ways by teaching:

• How to move from anxiety, self-doubt, and fear to a confident, proactive state of mind.
• How to navigate discomfort and celebrate your inherent worth as you develop genuine self-love.
• How to design relationships, community and a sex life that lights you up.
• Practical tools to align your gender identity and expression with your most authentic self through play, pleasure and possibility.

Brimming with warmth, celebration and practical advice, Gender Magic is essential reading for anyone who yearns to step into their fullest self and imagine a life beyond gender binaries. Because you - yes YOU - are magic.

"Rae McDaniel is a leader in their generation, matching compassion with clear-sighted vision for a sex-positive future."
Emily Nagoski, PhD, author of Come As You Are and Burnout

"Foregrounding agency and joy without glossing over real challenges, nonbinary therapist Rae McDaniel weaves research, clinical wisdom, their own and their clients' lived experience, and powerful love magic into a book that will debunk toxic nonsense and unlock gender euphoria."
Carol Queen, PhD, Co-Founder of the Center for Sex & Culture, author and activist

"Gender Magic reroutes the hero's journey by insisting that all bodies are sites of profound creativity and pleasure, ever generating innovative meanings. A cutting-edge triumph that will likely save lives on its way to illuminating new stories to live by."
Lidia Yuknavich, critically acclaimed author of The Chronology of Water

"In a culture that frames being trans as either suffering or surviving, Rae McDaniel provides a travelogue of the potential, the pleasure and the possibility of living gender with deliberate cultivated joy. From mapping your complex gender galaxy to examining hopes, fears, anxieties, even regrets, Gender Magic is an able companion for anyone seeking better self-esteem, better sex and better relations with others."
Dr Tey Meadow, associate professor of sociology at The Institute for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, Columbia University