Just Girls discussion questions
Questions for Discussion: Just Girls by Rachel Gold Here's a list of questions for classrooms and book groups. Fair warning: there are more spoilers the further you get into the questions. Ch. 1 How should the admissions department have handled having a trans girl in the dorms? If you were Ella, how would you want them to have handled it? Ch. 2 What did you think of Tucker coming out as trans even though she isn’t? What would you have done? Tucker and Ella come from different socioeconomic classes, how does this impact the options that are available to them and what they see as viable choices? What might it be like if their situations were reversed? Ch. 4 Before the administration will let Tucker move to Ella’s suite, they ask if she’s had “the surgery.” Our culture seems fixated on genitals. Is it ever okay to ask someone about the state of their genitals? Why or why not? Ch. 5 Getting a team for the Cruel 2B Kind game and then playing the game is one of the ways Ella becomes comfortable on campus. In addition to community, what are other positive effects of playing games? Have you ever had an experience where you could express yourself more fully