Precise Justice (Marc Kadella Legal Mysteries #18)

A young boy, and only child, a bit shy and socially awkward, does not fit in well with his peers. He has trouble making friends and is not athletically inclined. His mother is a domineering, progressive who has always secretly wanted a daughter. Because transgender affirmation is the latest “cause”, Priscilla, Robbie’s mother, decides this would be just the thing to fix Robbie’s difficulties. Mom convinces herself that Robbie is in the wrong body.

With the help of Robbie’s school nurse, the school psychologist and principal, Priscilla has Robbie worked over psychologically to convince him that he should become a girl....

A young boy, and only child, a bit shy and socially awkward, does not fit in well with his peers. He has trouble making friends and is not athletically inclined. His mother is a domineering, progressive who has always secretly wanted a daughter. Because transgender affirmation is the latest “cause”, Priscilla, Robbie’s mother, decides this would be just the thing to fix Robbie’s difficulties. Mom convinces herself that Robbie is in the wrong body.

With the help of Robbie’s school nurse, the school psychologist and principal, Priscilla has Robbie worked over psychologically to convince him that he should become a girl. That this is who he really is and his life and transgender affirmation will provide him with the happy life he deserves.

Except, Robbie himself has serious reservations about this. His story begins at the age of eleven but does not remain there. Robbie is beginning to see girls as more than just another type of classmate. Unfortunately, he has no ability to stand up to these people pushing on him. After all, they are experts. Especially a highly regarded psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Friedman. A well-known expert in the field. Friedman has never met a boy he did not want to turn into a girl. His sinister incentive is his weird sexual predilection for boys transgendered to girls. Robbie finally caves to the pressure of the experts and agrees to do it. The transition is done during a summer break between his junior and senior high school years.

Robbie, now in college rooming with another trans girl, receives a phone call from Priscilla’s executive assistant. Priscilla has not come to work and is not answering her phone. Robbie and the assistant meet at Priscilla’s and find her in bed, dead from what looks to be a burglary gone bad. Over the next few weeks, the people who pushed Robbie into a complete sex change turn up brutally murdered. The police find evidence against Robbie and she is arrested for multiple homicides.

Enter Marc Kadella, Maddy Rivers, Tony Carvelli and the usual list to defend Robbie. There will also be the usual surprise at the end.