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PUMPING   IRON

“For me, bodybuilding is a perfect metaphor for what we all do as humans,” says T Cooper, director of the transgender men’s bodybuilding documentary, Man Made. “We evolve. We change. We build the bodies and lives we want.”

The trans author and screenwriter () is best known for his eight novels, including bestsellers and His ninth book, the fourth in the young adult series (which he cowrote with his wife, Allison Glock-Cooper) comes

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