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* ''Love Kills Twice'', by Rien Gray, is a romance between a woman and the nonbinary assassin she hires to kill her abusive husband.<ref>https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/love-kills-twice/</ref> | * ''Love Kills Twice'', by Rien Gray, is a romance between a woman and the nonbinary assassin she hires to kill her abusive husband.<ref>https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/love-kills-twice/</ref> | ||
* The protagonist of ''Annabel'', written by Kathleen Winter, is [[intersex]] and raised as male, including genital surgery and being put on masculinizing medical treatments. They are given the name "Wayne" but sometimes go by "Annabel", and they identify "at least in part" with femininity/girlhood.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annabel |last=Winter |first=Kathleen |year=2010 |publisher=House of Anansi Press |quote=...he wondered what would happen if he could tell her they were both girls, at least in part.}}</ref> The protagonist's father takes great strides to encourage his child to be more masculine, whereas multiple women encourage the child's feminine side. Wayne/Annabel has been interpreted as nonbinary by some readers, with one reviewer saying the character is "both male/female in both body and soul".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/487958071?book_show_action=false |date=28 December 2012 |title=Laurie's Reviews > Annabel |access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> Content note: Coercively assigned gender, infant genital surgery, sexual assault, ectopic pregnancy, some inaccurate/unrealistic depiction of intersex experiences. | * The protagonist of ''Annabel'', written by Kathleen Winter, is [[intersex]] and raised as male, including genital surgery and being put on masculinizing medical treatments. They are given the name "Wayne" but sometimes go by "Annabel", and they identify "at least in part" with femininity/girlhood.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annabel |last=Winter |first=Kathleen |year=2010 |publisher=House of Anansi Press |quote=...he wondered what would happen if he could tell her they were both girls, at least in part.}}</ref> The protagonist's father takes great strides to encourage his child to be more masculine, whereas multiple women encourage the child's feminine side. Wayne/Annabel has been interpreted as nonbinary by some readers, with one reviewer saying the character is "both male/female in both body and soul".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/487958071?book_show_action=false |date=28 December 2012 |title=Laurie's Reviews > Annabel |access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> Content note: Coercively assigned gender, infant genital surgery, sexual assault, ectopic pregnancy, some inaccurate/unrealistic depiction of intersex experiences. | ||
* ''No Man of Woman Born'', by Ana Mardoll, is a collection of fantasy short stories with a range of non-cis protagonists, including trans women, trans men, genderfluid protagonists, bigender protagonists, and agender protagonists.<ref name="IllustratedPage">{{Cite web |title=LGBTQIAP Protagonists in Fantasy and Science Fiction |author= |work=The Illustrated Page |date= |access-date=20 February 2021 |url= https://www.theillustratedpage.net/diversity-in-fantasy-and-science-fiction/lgbtq-protagonists-in-fantasy-and-science-fiction/}}</ref> | |||
=== Comics/Webcomics/Graphic Novels=== | === Comics/Webcomics/Graphic Novels=== | ||