Ask a Crooked Question, Get the Answer You Paid For

HHS built its “gender ideology” scale out of mainstream medical guidance, then scored agreement with it as ideology. A survey is only ever as honest as the person writing the questions.

By Brianna Nicole Austin · 11 min read

Ask a Crooked Question, Get the Answer You Paid For

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An Unexpected Turn — A Coming of Age, by Brianna Nicole Austin

Books

Now on Kindle · Paperback Sept 28

Buy the Kindle eBook Paperback — Sept 28

Free sample chapters available on Kindle.

An Unexpected Turn is a fast-moving, male-to-female (M>F) coming-of-age novel that explores secrecy, identity, and the profound ripple effects of our choices. Poignant, comical, and deeply moving, the story originally debuted as a short novella.
Inspired by terrific customer reviews on Amazon, Brianna expanded this second edition into a complete novel, with illustrations to bring it to visual life.
Read Chapter One · See Amazon Reviews and Buy.