It's in this era of the complete dehumanisation of trans people that Munroe Bergdorf's debut book, Transitional , is needed more than ever. Munroe remains committed to using her platform to champion diversity and create lasting change in the beauty industry and beyond. We’re all on a journey, and a transition with regards to gender is just one of many we all experience as human beings. The book will also take in current discussions around gender and sexuality, “because even though it looks like we’re living in a progressive society, how progressive is it when we’re still fighting against conversion therapy, and Boris Johnson is trying to wind back trans rights? The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory.

More than a decade later, after establishing a successful career in the public eye, Bergdorf believes that transitioning is an ingrained part of the human experience, not a process that only trans people go through. Exploring six different facets of human experience – adolescence, sexuality, gender, relationships, identity and race – the book will draw on Bergdorf’s own experiences, including growing up in a mixed-race family, going to an all-boys school and starting her transition at the age of 24.None of us ever becomes someone else entirely – regardless of how we identify – but nor do we stay the same forever.

It was an “incredible” feeling, she said, to have 11 publishers bidding to publish it, and she was “blown away” by Bloomsbury’s associate publisher Alexis Kirschbaum, who eventually acquired it in what the publisher said was likely to be the biggest book deal for a black, trans woman. Unsurprisingly, Bergdorf was confused about her attraction to boys/men pre-transition, was subjected to multiple forms of abuse and violence: sexual, physical, emotional, etc. PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR: ‘ Bergdorf is proof that speaking up for what you believe in can provoke real change’ Vogue ‘ A phenomenon’ Owen Jones, Guardian ‘ A powerful and unstoppable new force . The first book by Munroe Bergdorf, a manifesto on gender by the black transgender activist and model, has been bought for a six-figure sum after a bidding war between 11 publishers.

None of us ever becomes someone else entirely—regardless of how we identify—but nor do we stay the same forever. In recent years Munroe has gone on to grace the cover of Time Magazine (for their Next Generation Leaders issue), Paper Magazine, Guardian Weekend Magazine and GQ Style as well as Attitude Magazine and Glamour Magazine which saw Munroe pick up the Hero Award and Gamechanger Influencer Award respectively.