It’s important to point out that, most gender fluid people can’t avoid gendered pronouns-they’re everywhere. Garvin states that his goal in writing the book was to emphasize how hard it is for gender fluid people to live in a world that is heavily influenced by the construct of gender. While the blog is at first a liberating outlet, things take a turn for the worse when an anonymous person claims to know Riley's real identity and threatens to out them. After moving to a new school and struggling with people's perception of them and being bullied, Riley begins to write an anonymous blog under the pseudonym 'Alix' about gender fluidity, even giving advice to readers facing similar problems. Though Riley feels masculine or feminine to different degrees at different times and struggles with dysphoria, they choose to appear androgynous so that their gender will not be assumed. Riley is not out of the closet to their peers or their father, a Senator, or their mother, feeling their identity is hard to explain or will not be accepted. Riley speaks in first person and does not call themself any third person pronoun. Riley Cavanaugh is a gender fluid teenager whose sense of gender identity shifts regularly they are sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl, or neither. The story evolves around Riley's life and their eventual decision to come out as gender fluid to the world.

The book tells the story of young Riley Cavanaugh, a gender fluid adolescent who writes a blog about their experiences and identity.

Symptoms of Being Human is a 2016 young adult novel by Jeff Garvin. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards.

The symptoms of being human