AmateurShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction. In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience of boxing learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body McBee examines