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x How to Read This Book Community Voices Each Community Voices section is a contribution from another trans or gender variant library worker. I was not comfortable attempting to repre- sent the entire community, or even letting that be implied by failing to in- clude others’ experiences. I requested short pieces on any subject that people wanted to write about as long as it related to gender identity and libraries. It was very important to me that these additional voices not be filtered through my own experiences and biases, so all of the contributions were accepted without revision. As I wanted everything in this book to come from a trans and gender variant perspective, none of these come from cisgender people. Quick Fixes These are concrete actions that can be accomplished relatively easily over days or weeks. Adapt whichever of these fit with your work and combine them with long-term solutions. Long-Term Solutions These are also concrete actions, but they may take months or years to implement successfully. Pick whichever ones make sense for you and incor- porate them into long-term planning. Glossary The glossary at the end of the book includes brief definitions of some of the words used in the book. The Terminology section of Chapter 1, “Trans 101,” has more detailed explanations of some of these. There are a great many words that are used to talk about gender, so the glossary is limited to the ones used in this book.