Gender Magic

Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

De: Rae McDaniel MED LCPC CST MED LCPC CST

Narrado por: Rae McDaniel MED LCPC CST MED LCPC CST

A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them—perfect for readers of The Body is Not an Apology and Pleasure Activism.

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, Ph.D, author of Come As You Are and Burnout

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

"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

"Gender Magic is a fresh and audacious guide to gender freedom, helping readers find the courage and momentum they need to confidently be themselves in the world. This book is essential reading for those exploring gender and those who love them."—Andrea Owen, author of How to Stop Feeling like Sh*t, global keynote speaker, and Professional Certified Life Coach

"Rae has written an as-promised magical book that takes you by the heart and leads you through both their own and your own journey from gender-surviving to gender-thriving. A must-read for anyone with a gender worth celebrating (that means you!)."—Yana Tallon-Hicks, LMFT, Sex Therapist and author of Hot and Unbothered: How to Think About, Talk About, and Have the Sex You Really Want

"Gender Magic is a bold and accessible look at gender diversity that had me screaming, “Yes!” all the way through. This book is a celebration of gender freedom for all of us and provides a powerful and hopeful vision of a world where each of us gets to live without shame as our true selves."—Susan Hyatt, Master Certified Life Coach and bestselling author of Bare

"Rae McDaniel offers a hopeful path forward for gender explorers and those who love them, teaching folks how to find joy and meaning in the journey towards authenticity. This book is full of valuable guidance that honors and prepares people for the complexities within this particular life journey."—Dr. Scott Mosser, Surgeon and Founder of the Gender Confirmation Center

"Gender Magic is a masterclass in authenticity, worthiness, and letting your full self be seen—written from the lens of gender freedom. It’s a must read for anyone on a journey to joyfully break out of confining gender 'boxes,' and live their biggest, best life."—Rachel Rodgers, bestselling author of We Should All Be Millionaires

A powerful work to help guide the framing of transition for those who are still focusing on the negative

Rae is a phenomenal author and orator who brings the book to life in their reading of it. They are passionate, reassuring, insightful, and funny. I found myself actually laughing while listening to the book. And at other times, I had to go to my wife, play a section for her, and say "They're right, but I feel way too 'seen' right now!"

I have known I am transgender for almost two years now and am coming up on my one year anniversary of starting to medically transition. This book definitely encapsulates so many of the things I had discovered for myself in the past two years and also challenged me with new insights that I had to pause the book and mull over for a day or two.

if you are a transgender person looking for a book that will help you to contextualize transition within your own life, help you understand what you want out of the process, help you understand thee communal resources available to you and tap into some inner reserves of strength you've been neglecting a bit, then this book is an excellent choice.

if you're a cis person (or a gender questioning person) who wants to better understand aspects of the trans experience and what transition entails, it's benefits, it's costs, and how to better support the trans people in your life, this is also a great book for you.

Give this book a chance. It will likely leave you with a plethora of answers, even more questions, and a roadmap for how to name and then achoeve your own goals for gender transition in all its dimensions.

And remember, you are magic!

ps: As part of voice training, I did voice matching to this book as a way to try out different intonations and cadences. Their voice is a bit "gender goals" for me.

Excellent read for anyone

This was a very good listen! The author was funny and relatable. Lots of affirmations about how everyone's journey through life is unique and having the courage to be your best self.

MUST LISTEN! The audacity to live joyFULLY

Inspiring! Smart! Fun and Funny! A thoughtful and excellently balanced collection of life lessons, science, metafor, encouragement, wisdom, poetry, politics, and passion.

Well read, with authenticity and humor, by the author. Its so clear that Rae doesnt just talk the talk, they walk the walk. Sometimes with grace and sometimes falling on their face - which is SO humanizing and encouraging. If they can do it, why cant I?

Full of great exercise to help ANYONE who wants to live with more play and pleasure in their lives.

As a non trans person I found this book a great read. Helpful and incitful on how to be a better and effective advocate for the trans community. How to contribute to the revolution I want to see in mental health, LGBTQIA+ issues, social justice and human rights. AND about 95% of this content resonated with me personally - even though Im not trans.

I think it's a treasure, a gem, its full of so many words I wish someone told me so long ago. This book has the capacity to change and save lives.

I think this book is F@#$in MAGIC!

Thank You So, So, Sososo Much for this Gift

This book helped us to be way more assertive and find the joy again, in the process of Our transition.
Dealing with the gate keeping bureaucracy of a federal healthcare system has us feeling out of control of our process.
It began feeling like a performative endeavor we had to rush what we should have been savoring! Thank you Rae!!!
BTW, completely LOVE your voice…and they way you read this to us, makes it a pleasure, even for a neurodivergent folx like We.
This book is giving us so much more courage from all the tools and wee ‘silver bullets’ it supplied. It’s really helped us, especially the exercises, which are great!
The gentle, Wise and generous offering to the World this book bestows, are not just for the Queer community.
This book is a gift for anyone and everyone regardless of gender or sexuality.
Please write more books :)

Encouraging & Practical

I liked that there were many tips, tools, and stories to illustrate the author’s ideas. I liked that they were humorous throughout and made a topic, that can be heavy, more light-hearted.