I’ve not read Detransition Baby, so I’m coming in relatively clean to Peters’ work, but obviously it is unsurprising that this is a collection of stories about, in one sense or another, the trans femme experience. More surprising is that for a short story collection, it’s really a novella and three short stories, the titular novella the vast majority of the book, a tale of lumberjacks and the gap between being gay and being trans. For my money, though, the jewel in the collection is The Chaser, which does what the best art does and really puts me in mind of I Saw The TV Glow: even if I can’t relate to the central allegory directly, it speaks so truthfully and specifically to a wider range of experiences that it’s impossible to not feel seen. Maybe that’s just me, though.