Summary

In Chapter 5, Stella is watching pornography featuring a man, a woman and a trans woman. She watches for a sense of belonging, to see that there are others like her out there outside of the handful of models and Boys Don’t Cry. She is dizzy from the cigarettes Dylan had given her and recalls Lewis blowing smoke in her face. The scene cuts to Stella emerging from the room and telling her mother about meeting Dylan. She goes to their very small bathroom and sits on the toilet to urinate but struggles is very conscious of her body and passing as a girl. This is a step she has learned from a support group that she has attended for trans teens in the city. She is worried that she sounds different to other girls and that someone will notice, so she turns...