Spoilers likely

I’ve been trying to work on the plot line to “It Can Only Go Up From Here” and, from the very start I felt that this story would need to have the world going against Jennifer, since in the first book it was really just herself vs herself. In the second book I have her being targeted by a group that I haven’t found a good name for that hate her estranged father so much that they are willing to bring her past up and expose her former identity to the high school and the state of Washington. The group is a league who believe transgender people belittle thier stance and want to use her to bring her father down. In response to their attacks, and after the death of her grandmother, Jen is taken to her father’s new family on the other side of town, where she is taken care of. Her father still doesn’t understand her but he does understand a use to gain political points with all sides involved and wants Jen to talk about her past to a panel. Essentially, he wants her to be a puppet in his platform. It takes her a bit of time before she realizes she’s being played and exposed in about the same way as the clandestine group, but by her “family”.
(After the death of her grandmother, Jen’s father is able to take her away from his former brother-in-law...yes, he was afraid of his mother-in-law that much).

I wanted to avoid the old religious vs. “fill in the blank” and go more into something that I thought was not really happening but, thanks to a few articles I’ve seen, is plausible. (Article warning: could contain subject matter that offends)

Also, what happened with Tyler is expanded upon, along with meeting up once again with Monica Preston who catches the eye of Jen’s cousin.