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Acting
Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism. Mollie Blackburn, Caroline Clark, Lauren Kenney & Jill Smith,
$29.95
In this volume, teachers from urban, suburban, and rural districts
join together in a teacher inquiry group to challenge homophobia
and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning
environments for all students they address key topics, including
seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether
to come out in the classroom, using LGBTQ-inclusive texts, running
a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing district policy to protect
LGBTQ teachers and students, dealing with resistant students,
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Almost Perfect. Brian Katcher, $10.99
Logan Witherspoon recently discovered
that his girlfriend of three years cheated on him. But things start to look up
when a new student breezes through the halls of his small-town high school.
Sage Hendricks befriends Logan at a time
when he no longer trusts or believes in people. Sage has been homeschooled for
a number of years and her parents have forbidden her to date anyone, but she
won't tell Logan why. One day, Logan acts on his growing feelings for Sage.
Moments later, he wishes he never had. Sage finally discloses her big secret:
she's actually a boy. Enraged, frightened, and feeling betrayed, Logan lashes
out at Sage and disowns her. But once Logan comes to terms with what happened,
he reaches out to Sage in an attempt to understand her situation. But Logan has
no idea how rocky the road back to friendship will be. |
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Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl? Sarah Savage
& Fox Fisher, $21.95
Tiny loves costumes! Tiny likes to dress up as an animal,
or a doctor, or a butterfly. Tiny also prefers not to tell other children whether
they are a boy or a girl. Tiny's friends don't mind, but when Tiny starts a new
school their new friends can't help asking one question:
"Tiny, are you a boy or are you a girl?"
This brightly illustrated book will open a dialogue with
children aged 3+ about gender diversity in a fun and creative way. Featuring a
gender neutral protagonist, the book imparts an important message about
identity and being who you want to be. Tiny's story will assist parents, family
and teachers in giving children the space to express themselves fully, explore
different identities and have fun at the same time. |
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Are You a Boy or a Girl? Karleen Pendelton Jiménez,
$11.95
Kids spend a lot of time debating with each other over
what makes a boy a boy and a girl a girl. It's a time of choices. It's a time
of creating themselves. It could be a time for blending and embracing the many
ways they express themselves, but it is too often a time of narrowing the
possibilities of who they can be. Are You a Boy or a Girl? enters into
this conversation and opens it up. It is the story of a child thinking through
who she is, a child learning through her mother's love how to be both strong
and soft. |
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At the Broken Places: a Mother and Trans Son Pick Up
the Pieces. Mary Collins & Donald Collins, $22.00
In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender
son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook
medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity.
As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agree with her trans
son’s decision to physically alter his body, although she supported his right
to realize himself as a person. Raw and uncensored, each explains her or his
emotional mindset at the time: Mary felt she had lost a daughter; Donald
activated his “authentic self.” Both battled to assert their rights. A powerful
memoir and resource, At the Broken Places offers a road map for families
in transition. |
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Be Who You Are! Jennifer Carr, illustrated by Ben Rumback, $29.95 (ages 4 to 8)
Meet Nick, a child who despite being
born in a boy’s body has always felt like a girl inside. Follow a journey of
self-awareness as Nick expresses the need to live authentically; and Nick’s
parents provide a supportive environment — while everyday life outside of home
proves far more challenging. |
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Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child: a
Guide for Parents and Carers. Anna Bianchi, $23.95
How can parents and care-givers best support their gender
expansive children? Drawing on the author's own experience with her grandchild,
this book encourages adults to redefine their understanding of gender in order
to understand and support their child more fully. |
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Becoming: a Gender Flipbook. Yishay Garbasz, $26.95
With Becoming, artist Yishay Garbasz courageously explores one of society’s most taboo subjects — the unmaking of a gendered body and the creation of another. Garbasz courageously documents two years of the physical changes she underwent to change from male to female. With unprecedented honesty and directness, the artist photographed her body every week, chronicling its gradual transformation. Becoming’s flip book format makes visible and immediate time and its integral role throughout this process. |
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Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American
Family. Amy Ellis Nutt, $22.00
Becoming Nicole chronicles a journey that
could have destroyed a family but instead brought it closer together. It’s the
story of a mother whose instincts told her that her child needed love and
acceptance, not ostracism and disapproval; of a Republican, Air Force veteran
father who overcame his deepest fears to become a vocal advocate for trans
rights; of a loving brother who bravely stuck up for his twin sister; and of a
town forced to confront its prejudices, a school compelled to rewrite its
rules, and a courageous community of transgender activists determined to make
their voices heard. Ultimately, Becoming Nicole is the story of an
extraordinary girl who fought for the right to be herself.
Granted wide-ranging access to personal diaries, home videos, clinical
journals, legal documents, medical records, and the Maineses themselves, Amy
Ellis Nutt spent almost four years reporting this immersive account of an
American family confronting an issue that is at the center of today’s cultural
debate. Becoming Nicole will resonate with anyone who’s ever raised a
child, felt at odds with society’s conventions and norms, or had to embrace
life when it plays out unexpectedly. It’s a story of standing up for your
beliefs and yourself — and it will inspire all of us to do the same. |
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Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. Jazz
Jennings, $23.99
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent
voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five,
Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year
later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first
Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was much less
knowledgeable or accepting of the transgender community. This groundbreaking
interview was followed over the years by other high-profile interviews, a
documentary, the launch of her YouTube channel, a picture book, and her own
reality TV series — I Am Jazz — making her one of the most recognizable activists
for transgender teens, children, and adults.
In her remarkable memoir, Jazz reflects on these very
public experiences and how they have helped shape the mainstream attitude
toward the transgender community. But it hasn't all been easy. Jazz has faced
many challenges, bullying, discrimination, and rejection, yet she perseveres as
she educates others about her life as a transgender teen. Through it all, her
family has been beside her on this journey, standing together against those who
don't understand the true meaning of tolerance and unconditional love. Now Jazz
must learn to navigate the physical, social, and emotional upheavals of
adolescence — particularly high school — complicated by the unique challenges of
being a transgender teen. Making the journey from girl to woman is never
easy — especially when you began your life in a boy's body. |
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Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out. Susan
Kuklin, $17.00
Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed
six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills
to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their
personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs,
and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical
journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether
joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of
family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make
in recognition of their true selves. A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature
takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. |
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Can I Tell You about Gender Diversity? A Guide for
Family and Friends. CJ Atkinson, illustrated by Olly Pike, $17.95 (ages
11++)
Meet Kit — a 12 year old undergoing medical transition —
as he talks about gender and the different ways it can be explored. He explains
what it is like to transition and how his friends, family and teachers can help
through talking, listening and being proactive. With illustrations throughout,
this is an ideal way to start conversations about gender diversity in the
classroom or at home and suitable for those working in professional services
and settings. The book also includes a useful list of recommended reading,
organisations and websites for further information and support. |
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Coming Around: Parenting Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Kids. Anne
Dohrenwend, $18.50
COMING AROUND is an insightful and
uplifting resource for understanding and coming to terms with a child’s sexual
orientation and maintaining a dialogue between parent and child. With
compassion and wisdom, Dohrenwend addresses parents' fears regarding what to
say and what not to say, bigotry and social and religious prejudice, the legal
issues facing LGBT individuals and how to understand homophobia. Most
important, she shares how to communicate that, whatever happens with a child's
sexual or gender orientation, parents will never withdraw their love.
Coming out is a vulnerable time. Its
announcement requires the re-exploration of a parent's personal feelings on
homosexuality. Respecting your teen or adult child’s decisions isn’t always
easy, particularly if you fear his or her decisions will cost friends,
ambitions, acceptance and respect. |
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The Conscious Parent's Guide to Gender Identity: a
Mindful Approach to Embracing Your Child's Authentic Self. Darlene Tando, $18.99
If your child is questioning their gender identity, you
may have questions of your own. The Conscious Parent's Guide to Gender
Identity helps answer those questions, providing a
relationship-oriented approach to supporting your child's journey. Conscious
parenting means being present with your children and taking the time to
understand their point of view. Using this mindful method, you can support and
guide your children as they discover their authentic selves. This mindful
method of parenting will allow you and your children to strengthen your bond
while allowing them to be who they truly are. |
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Counseling Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: the
Essential Guide. Irwin Krieger, $37.95
There are growing numbers of youth who identify as
transgender, and as a result, clinicians and counselors are in need of an
informed resource that covers the basics of gender identity and expression.
This book responds to that need by setting out clear advice and support on
working with transgender and non-binary youth with regard to their identity,
mental health, personal and family life and their medical and social transition
as well as offering additional resources and reading lists.
Along with the basic information needed to understand
transgender clients, Irwin Krieger applies this general knowledge to work with
transgender teens at what can be the most critical and problematic stage in a
trans person's life. Specifically, issues of gender identity awareness and
expression for youth along with the mental and physical challenges that puberty
presents are discussed. This guide will inform counselors and therapists to
support transgender teens in their practice, while providing the necessary
tools for opening up the conversation on transgender issues in families and
schools. |
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But
Were Afraid to Ask). Brynn Tannehill, $27.95
Leading activist and essayist Brynn Tannehill tells you
everything you ever wanted to know about transgender issues but were afraid to
ask. The book aims to break down deeply held misconceptions about trans people
across all aspects of life, from politics, law and culture, through to science,
religion and mental health, to provide readers with a deeper understanding of
what it means to be trans.
The book walks the reader through transgender issues,
starting with "What does transgender mean?" before moving on to more
complex topics including growing up trans, dating and sex, medical and mental
health, and debates around gender and feminism. Brynn also challenges
deliberately deceptive information about transgender people being put out into
the public sphere. Transphobic myths are debunked and biased research, bad
statistics and bad science are carefully and clearly refuted.
This important and engaging book enables any reader to
become informed the most critical public conversations around transgender
people, and become a better ally as a result. |
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First Year Out: a Transition Story. Sabrina
Symington, $28.95 (graphic novel) 
From laser hair removal and coming out to her parents,
through to dating, voice training and gender reassignment surgery, this
intimate and witty graphic novel follows the character of Lily as she
transitions to living as her true, female self. Providing support and guidance
on a range of issues such as hormones, medical procedures and relationships,
the story traces the everyday thoughts, emotions and struggles many trans and
non-binary people face and seeks to empower those who are starting to question
their gender as well as promoting wider discussion about the complexities of
gender and identity. Based on the author's own experiences as a trans woman,
this honest and powerful work is a testament to being who you are and a
celebration of gender diversity. |
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From the Dress-Up Corner to the
Senior Prom: Navigating Gender and Sexual Diversity in PreK-12 Schools. Jennifer Bryan, $48.95
Very few PreK-12 teachers are adequately
trained to address the gender identity and sexual identity of their students in
a developmentally-appropriate and pedagogically-sound manner. Yet responsible
adults must help children navigate the inherently diverse, increasingly complex
world of gender and sexuality in the twenty-first century.
FROM THE DRESS-UP CORNER TO THE SENIOR PROM is a practical, forward
thinking resource for anyone involved in educating children and adolescents.
Jennifer Bryan takes readers into classrooms, administrative meetings, recess,
parent conferences, and the annual pep rally to witness the daily
manifestations of Gender and Sexuality Diversity at school. She provides a
coherent framework for understanding what readers "see," and invites
them to use a contemporary, heart/mind perspective as they consider the true developmental
needs of all elementary, middle, and high school students. The book features
thoughtful questions, models of dialogue, accessible lesson plans, and many
pedagogical strategies. At the heart of this book, though, are the evocative
stories from teachers, students, and parents that Bryan has listened to over
the span of her career. These personal anecdotes bring the comprehensive
explorations of this seminal work to life. |
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From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea. Kai
Cheng Thom, illustrated by Wai-Yant Li & Kai Yun Ching, $18.95 
In the magical time between night and day, when both the
sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a
hill. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape
they can imagine. The only problem is they can't decide what to be: A boy or a
girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they
must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questions from the other children,
and they have trouble finding friends who will accept them for who they are.
But they find comfort in the loving arms of their mother, who always offers
them the same loving refrain: "whatever you dream of / i believe you can
be / from the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea."
In this captivating, beautifully imagined picture book
about gender, identity, and the acceptance of the differences between us, Miu
Lan faces many questions about who they are and who they may be. But one
thing's for sure: no matter what this child becomes, their mother will love
them just the same.
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The
Full Spectrum: a New Generation of Writing about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities. David Levithan
& Billy Merrell, editors, $10.99
Teens are more aware of sexuality and identity than
ever, and they’re looking for answers and insights, as well as a
community of others. In order to help create that community, David
Levithan and Billy Merrell have collected original poems, essays,
and stories by young adults in their teens and early 20s. The
Full Spectrum includes a variety of writers — gay, lesbian,
bisexual, straight, transitioning, and questioning—on a variety
of subjects: coming out, family, friendship, religion/faith, first
kisses, break-ups, and many others. This one of a kind collection
will, perhaps, help all readers see themselves and the world around
them in ways they might never have imagined. |
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Gender Born, Gender Made:
Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children. Diane
Ehrensaft, $25.95
GENDER BORN, GENDER MADE is a comprehensive guidebook
for the parents and therapists of children who do not identify with or behave
according to their biological gender. Drawing on the case histories of several
children, each "gender creative" in his or her own way, Dr. Diane
Ehrensaft offers concrete strategies for understanding and supporting children
who experience confusion about their gender identities. She also discusses the
latest therapeutic advancements available to gender-variant children.
Traditionally, psychologists have sought to
"cure" gender variance by pressuring children to conform to typical
gender behavior. From her perspective as both clinician and parent of a gender
creative child, Dr. Ehrensaft advocates a new approach, encouraging caregivers
to support gender-variant children as they explore their gender identities.
Rather than offering a "cure" for gender variance, GENDER BORN,
GENDER MADE facilitates improved understanding and communication about gender
identity. |
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Gender,
Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia
in Schools. Elizabeth
Meyer, $31.50 
Educator, researcher and author Elizabeth Meyers looks at the
key gender issues related to bullying and harassment in schools
and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help positively
transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences
of gendered harassment. The text features sections that speak specifically
to administrators, teachers, counselors, student leaders and community
and family members. |
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The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and
Supporting Children Who Love Outside Gender Boxes. Diane Ehrensaft, $23.95
In her groundbreaking first book, Gender Born, Gender
Made, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft coined the term gender creative to describe
children whose unique gender expression or sense of identity is not defined by
a checkbox on their birth certificate. Now, with The Gender Creative Child,
she returns to guide parents and professionals through the rapidly changing
cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity.
In this up-to-date, comprehensive resource, Dr. Ehrensaft
explains the interconnected effects of biology, nurture, and culture to explore
why gender can be fluid, rather than binary. As an advocate for the gender
affirmative model and with the expertise she has gained over three decades of
pioneering work with children and families, she encourages caregivers to listen
to each child, learn their particular needs, and support their quest for a true
gender self. The Gender Creative Child unlocks the door to a
gender-expansive world, revealing pathways for positive change in our schools,
our communities, and the world. |
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Gender Equality In Primary Schools: a Guide for
Teachers. Helen Griffin, $29.95
This hands-on guide supports primary teachers and other
school staff in challenging gender stereotypes, and sets out advice on how to
implement gender equality and respect in the curriculum, and in all areas of
school life. An increase in the number of transgender children — and a
recognition of gender reassignment as a protected characteristic under the 2010
Equality Act — means that all primary schools need to ensure they are safe
environments respectful of all genders. This book draws on the 'Gender Respect
Project', which identified the need to address gender stereotyping and
gender-based violence with children and young people.
The book is full of lesson plans, case studies, clear
guidance and recommended actions as well as further reading and resources. Extending
beyond awareness of other genders, this book provides a framework for a gender
equality approach in the classroom, and empowers children to think critically
about gender and to respect themselves and others. |
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Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from
Across the Spectrum. Eva Mendes & Meredith Maroney, $35.95
Bringing together a collection of narratives from those
who are on the autism spectrum whilst also identifying as lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA), this book
explores the intersection of the two spectrums as well as the diverse
experiences that come with it. By providing knowledge and advice based on
in-depth research and personal accounts, the narratives will be immensely
valuable to teenagers, adults, partners and families. The authors round these
stories with a discussion of themes across narratives, and implications for the
issues discussed. In the final chapter, the authors reflect on commonly asked
questions from a clinical perspective, bringing in relevant research, as well
as sharing best-practice tips and considerations that may be helpful for
LGBTQIA and ASD teenagers and adults. These may also be used by family members
and clinicians when counselling teenagers and adults on the dual spectrum.
With each chapter structured around LGBTQIA and autism
spectrum identities, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism highlights
the fluidity of gender identity, sexual orientation and neurodiversity and
provides a space for people to share their individual experiences. |
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The Gender Quest Workbook: a Guide for Teens &
Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity. Rylan Jay Testa, Deborah Coolhart,
Jayme Peta, $24.95
This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will help you
navigate your gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.
If you are a transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) teen, you may
experience unique challenges with identity and interpersonal relationships. In
addition to experiencing common teen challenges such as body changes and peer
pressure, you may be wondering how to express your unique identity to
others. The Gender Quest Workbook incorporates skills,
exercises, and activities from evidence-based therapies — such as cognitive
behavioral therapy (CBT) — to help you address the broad range of struggles you
may encounter related to gender identity, such as anxiety, isolation, fear, and
even depression.
Despite outdated beliefs, gender no longer implies being
simply male or female, but rather a whole spectrum of possibilities. This fun,
engaging workbook is designed specifically for teens like you who want to
explore the concept of gender and gender identity and expression — whether you
already identify as TGNC or are simply questioning your gender identity. The
activities in this book will help you explore your identity internally,
interpersonally, and culturally. And along the way, you’ll learn how to
effectively express yourself and make informed decisions on how to navigate
your gender with family, friends, classmates, and coworkers. The book also
includes chapters on sex and dating, balancing multiple identities, and how to
deal with stressful challenges when they arise.
The Gender Quest Workbook also features a
brief downloadable guide for clinicians that explains ways professionals can
better serve gender-expansive youth. The guide will address ways to help youth
working with gender identity build resilience against gender minority stress,
among other topics. |
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Gender: Your Guide. A Gender-Friendly Primer On What
to Know, What to Say, an What to Do In the New Gender Culture. Lee Airton,
$33.99
The days of two genders — male, female; boy, girl; blue,
pink — are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global
conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before
are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender
people are coming out as neither men or women, instead living outside of the
binary. Gender is changing, and this change is gaining momentum. We all want to
do and say the right things in relation to gender diversity — whether at a job
interview, at parent/teacher night, and around the table at family dinners. But
where do we begin?
From the differences among gender identity, gender
expression, and sex, to the use of gender-neutral pronouns like singular
they/them, to thinking about your own participation in gender, Gender: Your
Guide serves as a complete primer to all things gender. Guided by professor and
gender diversity advocate Lee Airton, you will learn how gender works in
everyday life, how to use accurate terminology to refer to transgender,
non-binary, and/or gender non-conforming individuals, and how to ask when you
aren’t sure what to do or say. It provides you with the information you need to
talk confidently and compassionately about gender diversity, whether simply
having a conversation or going to bat as an advocate.
Just like gender itself, being gender-friendly is a
process for all of us. As revolutionary a resource as Our Bodies, Ourselves, Gender:
Your Guide invites everyone on board to make gender more flexible and less
constricting: a source of more joy, and less harm, for everyone. Let’s get
started. |
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Get That Freak: Homophobia
and Transphobia in High Schools. Rebecca Haskell &
Brian Burtch, $18.95 
Bullying in schools has garnered
significant attention recently, but despite this, little has been said about
the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Canadian high schools.
GET THAT FREAK fills that gap by exploring the experiences of bullying among
youth who identify or are identified as queer. Through interviews with recent
high school graduates in British Columbia, Haskell and Burtch share stories of
physical, verbal and emotional harassment, and offer important insights into
the negative outcomes that result from the experience of being bullied.
Challenging the familiar image of these youth as helpless victims, this book also
recognizes positive outcomes: moments of resistance, friendship and inner
strength. Finally, the authors make recommendations for challenging homophobic
and transphobic bullying in high schools and supporting students who experience
this form of harassment. |
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Girls are Not Chicks Coloring Book. Jacinta Bunnell, illustrated by Julie Novak, $11.00
27 pages of ingenious, subversive fun, Girls are Not Chicks is a playful way to examine how pervasive gender stereotypes are in every aspect of our lives. |
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GLBTQ: the Survival Guide for Queer
& Questioning Teens. Kelly Huegel, $21.50
First published in 2003, GLBTQ quickly
became the indispensable resource for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
queer, and questioning teens (often referred to as LGBT or GLBTQ). This fully
revised and updated edition retains all of the straightforward information and
practical advice of the original edition while providing a contemporary look at
society and its growing acceptance of homosexuality and transgender people.
Included are updates on efforts to promote equality regardless of gender
identity or sexual orientation, the current status of initiatives concerning
safe schools, gay marriage, workplace equality, and transgender expression, and more. Resources point the way to books and
websites with more information, and GLBTQ teens (and allies) who have been
there share stories of personal experiences. |
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Growing Into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority
Youth in Canada. André Grace, with Kristopher Wells, $34.95 
Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and
gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice,
inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an
ongoing challenge. In Growing into Resilience, André Grace and
Kristopher Wells — co-founders of Camp fYrefly, a summer leadership camp for
SGM youth — investigate how teachers, healthcare workers, and other
professionals can help SGM youth build the human and material assets that will
empower them to be happy, healthy, and resilient.
Grace and Wells investigate the comprehensive (physical,
mental, and sexual) health of SGM youth, emphasizing the role of caring
professionals in an approach that that recognizes and accommodates SGM youth.
Throughout, the authors draw upon the personal narratives of SGM youth,
emphasizing how research, policy, and practice must act together for them to be
able to thrive and fulfill their promise.
Both a resource for those professionally engaged in work
with sexual and gender minorities and a comprehensive text for use in courses
on working with vulnerable youth populations, Growing into Resilience is
a timely and trans-disciplinary book. |
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Happy Families. Tanita Davis, $10.99 (novel for ages 13+, about a transgender
parent)
Teenage twins Ysabel and Justin are
lucky. They are almost finished high school, and the future looks good for both
of them. They get along great with their parents — in fact they are the
ultimate happy family. Or so they believe.
When they learn their father has been
keeping a secret from them, Justin and Ysabel are forced to come to terms with
their dad’s decisions, and a very different family life. They know they’ll
never be the same happy family they were. So — who are they now? |
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Helping Your Transgender Teen: a Guide for Parents,
2nd Edition. Irwin Krieger, $15.95
Going through puberty and adolescence presents unwelcome
changes for many transgender youth, and this book provides advice to parents of
transgender teens to help them understand what their child is experiencing and
feeling during this challenging time.
Addressing common fears and concerns that parents of
transgender teens share, the book guides them through steps they can take with
their child, including advice on hormones and surgery and how to transition
socially. It addresses the recent increase in teens presenting with non-binary
identities, and reflects major legal, social and medical developments regarding
transgender issues. The author's insights are gained from his professional
experience of providing psychotherapy regarding gender identity. He provides
resources and further reading to help parents expand their knowledge.
Although aimed predominantly at parents, this book is
useful for anyone working with teenagers and young adults as it provides many
answers to common questions about adolescent gender identity. |
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He's Always Been My Son: a Mother's Story about
Raising Her Transgender Son. Janna Barkin, $22.95
This true story by a family about raising their
transgender son is both a captivating read and an invaluable support source for
parents facing similar issues. A warm, insightful portrait of a family that
includes tips on helping young transgender people navigate their transition, it
will support, educate and inspire. |
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How to Understand Your Gender: a Practical Guide for
Exploring Who You Are. Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker, $22.95
Have you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you
know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever
feel confused when people talk about gender diversity?
This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know
more about gender, from its biology, history and sociology, to how it plays a
role in our relationships and interactions with family, friends, partners and
strangers. It looks at practical ways people can express their own gender, and
will help you to understand people whose gender might be different from your
own. With activities and points for reflection throughout, this book will help
people of all genders engage with gender diversity and explore the ideas in the
book in relation to their own lived experiences. |
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I Am J. Cris Beam,
$12.00 (novel, ages 13+)
J had always felt different. He was
certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy
mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him;
eventually J stopped praying to wake up a "real boy" and started
covering up his body, keeping himself invisible — from his parents, from his
friends, from the world. But after being deserted by the best friend he thought
would always be by his side, J decides that he's done hiding — it's time to be
who he really is. And this time he is determined not to give up, no matter the
cost. |
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I Am Jazz. Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings,
illustrated by Shelagh McNichols, $19.99
From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she
had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a
mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her
family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was
transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her
real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be
appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers. |
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Introducing Teddy:
a Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship. Jessica Walton, illustrated by
Dougal MacPherson, $19.99
Errol and his teddy, Thomas, are best friends who do
everything together. Whether it's riding a bike, playing in the tree house,
having a tea party, or all of the above, every day holds something fun to do.
One sunny day, Errol finds that Thomas is sad, even when
they are playing in their favorite ways. Errol can't figure out why, until
Thomas finally tells Errol what the teddy has been afraid to say: “In my heart,
I've always known that I'm a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. I wish my name was
Tilly, not Thomas.” And Errol says, “I don't care if you're a girl teddy or a
boy teddy! What matters is that you are my friend.”
Introducing Teddy introduces the youngest readers to
understanding gender identity and transition in an accessible and heart-warming
story about being true to yourself and being a good friend. |
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Jacob's New Dress. Sarah & Ian Hoffman,
illustrated by Chris Case, $25.95
Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he
wants to be. Some kids at school say he can’t wear “girl” clothes, but Jacob
wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear
what he wants? This heartwarming story speaks to the unique challenges faced by
boys who don’t identify with traditional gender roles. |
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Jamie Is Jamie: a Book About Being Yourself and
Playing Your Way. Afsanch Moradian, illustrated by Maria Bogade, $18.99
(ages 4-8)
There are so many fun things to play with at Jamie's new
preschool — baby dolls to care for, toy cars to drive — and Jamie wants
to play with them all! But the other children are confused... is Jamie a boy
or a girl? Some toys are just for girls and others are just for boys, aren't
they? Not according to Jamie!
Jamie Is Jamie challenges gender stereotypes,
shows readers that playing is fundamental to learning, and reinforces the idea
that all children need the freedom to play unencumbered. A special section for
teachers, parents, and caregivers provides tips on how to make children's
playtime learning time. |
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Luna. Julie Anne Peters, $8.99
Regan's brother Liam can't stand the
person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female
namesake, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of
his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs
to be, with help from his sister's clothes and makeup. Now, everything is about
to change — Luna is preparing to emerge from her cocoon. But are Liam's family
and friends ready to welcome Luna into their lives? Compelling and provocative,
this is an unforgettable novel about a transgender teen's struggle for
self-identity and acceptance. |
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Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian
Daughters and FTM Transgender Children. Sarah Pearlman, $24.95
MOTHER-TALK is a collection of stories by 24 mothers —
twelve who found out a daughter was a lesbian, and twelve who learned that a
child, once a biological female, was planning to transition to male. The book
captures the complexity of coming to terms with the loss of a daughter who
changed sex or an anticipated relationship with a daughter who leads a
different life. This groundbreaking book will help mothers as well as lesbian
daughters and FTM transgender children to understand their relationships, and
underpin the determination to remain connected. |
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My Brother, My Sister: Story of a
Transformation. Molly Haskell, $18.00
A feminist film critic’s thoughtful,
outspoken memoir about transgender and family.
On a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell
dropped a bombshell: Nearing age sixty, and married, he had decided to become a
woman. Haskell chronicles her brother’s transformation through a series of
psychological evaluations, grueling surgeries, drug regimens, and comportment
and fashion lessons as he becomes Ellen. Despite Haskell’s liberal views on
gender roles, she was dumbfounded by her brother’s decision. With candor and
compassion, she charts not only her brother’s journey to becoming her sister,
but also her own path from shock, confusion, embarrassment, and devastation to
acceptance, empathy, and love.
Haskell widens the lens on her brother’s story to include scientific and
psychoanalytic views. In an honest, informed voice, she has revealed the
controversial world of gender reassignment and transsexuals from both a
personal and a social perspective in this frank and moving memoir. |
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My New Gender Workbook: a Step-by-Step Guide to
Achieving World Peace through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition.
Kate Bornstein, $59.95
Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but
difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a
hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual
identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate
Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to
living with or without a gender.
Bornstein starts from the premise that there are not just
two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the
two-gender framework. Using a unique, deceptively simple and always
entertaining workbook format, complete with quizzes, exercises, and puzzles,
Bornstein gently but firmly guides readers toward discovering their own unique
gender identity.
Since its first publication in 1997, this book has
been challenging, encouraging, questioning, and helping those trying to figure
out how to become a "real man," a "real woman," or
"something else entirely." In this exciting new edition of her
classic text, Bornstein re-examines gender in light of issues like race, class,
sexuality, and language. With new quizzes, new puzzles, new exercises, and
plenty of Kate's playful and provocative style, My New Gender Workbook promises
to help a new generation create their own unique place on the gender spectrum. |
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My Princess Boy:
a Mom’s Story about a Young Boy Who Loves to Dress Up.
Cheryl Kilodavis, $18.99 (ages 3 and up)
This is a book about acceptance, a tool to help children and adults talk about unconditional friendship and love. Supporting those who express themselves differently and learning to live compassionately, takes effort. It takes practice and it takes focus. This book helps readers of all ages celebrate the unique person within us all, with acceptance and compassion. |
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Oscar of Between: a Memoir of Identity and Ideas. Betsy
Warland, $21.95
In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself
single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to
London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to
see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five
minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its
source: she had never learned the art of camouflage.
Taking the name Oscar, she embarks on an intimate,
nine-year quest by telling her story as “a person of between.” As Oscar, she is
able to make sense of her self and the culture that shaped her. She traces this
experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest, through
to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life.
In the process of writing Oscar’s story, Warland
considers our culture’s rigid, even violent demarcations as she becomes at ease
with never knowing what gender she will be addressed as: “In Oscar’s daily
life, when encountering someone, it goes like this: some address her as a male;
some address her as a female; some begin with one and then switch (sometimes
apologetically) to the other; some identify Oscar as lesbian and their faces
harden, or open into a momentary glance of arousal; some know they don’t know
and openly scrutinize; some decide female but stare perplexedly at her
now-sans-breast chest; some are bemused by or drawn to or relate to her
androgyny; and for some none of this matters.”
A contemporary Orlando, Oscar of Between extends beyond
the author’s personal narrative, pushing the boundaries of form, and by doing
so, invents new ways to see ourselves. |
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Parrotfish. Ellen Wittlinger, $11.99 (novel, ages 14 and up)
Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as
a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become
Grady, a guy. While coming out as trans-gendered feels right to
Grady, he isn't prepared for the reaction he gets from everyone
else. Grady's life is miserable until he finds friends in some unexpected
places like the school geek, Sebastian, who explains that there
is precedent in the natural world (parrotfish change gender when
they need to), and Kita, a senior who might just be Grady's first
love. |
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Phoenix Goes to School. Michelle Phoenix Finch,
illustrated by Sharon Davey, $19.95 (ages 3-7)
Phoenix wants to wear her favourite purple dress to
express her gender, but she is scared of being bullied on her first day of
school. Follow Phoenix's journey as she arrives at school, makes some friends,
stands up for herself, and helps us learn to be true to who we really are. |
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A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and
Cultivating Well-Being. Ellen Riggle & Sharon Rostosky, $23.95
A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation
about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and
Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through
inspiring firsthand accounts. Focusing on how LGTBQ-identified individuals can
cultivate a sense of well-being and a personal identity that allows them to
flourish in all areas of life, the authors explore a variety of themes. Through
personal stories from people with a variety of backgrounds and gender and
sexual identities, readers will learn more about expressing gender and
sexuality; creating strong and intimate relationships; exploring unique
perspectives on empathy, compassion, and social justice; belonging to
communities and acting as role models and mentors; and, enjoying the benefits
of living an authentic life. Providing exercises in each chapter, the book
offers those who identify as LGBTQ and those who support and love them, as well
as those seeking to better understand them, an opportunity to explore and
appreciate these identities. |
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A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity and Sexuality in
Early Years. Deborah Price, $29.95
Aiding discussion of gender diversity and sexuality with
very young children, this practical guide helps practitioners explore these
themes in early years settings. Promoting and extending current good practice,
the book offers advice and activities that will support children in discovering
their identity and also demonstrates how to work with parents.
This guide presents a background to gender theory
alongside examples and case studies, showing that activities and settings can
work together for children to recognise their full potential in a supportive
environment. This book addresses a wide variety of topics such as staff
training and team management, how to support and promote men working in
childcare, transgender issues and ways practice can be challenged, to give
those working with young children a great foundation for teaching about
diversity.
Proposing aims that early years practitioners can work
towards and providing practical ideas to take directly in to the workplace,
this hands-on guide sets out to create and encourage outstanding practice for
all professionals teaching young children. |
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PRIDE: Celebrating Diversity & Community. Robin
Stevenson, $24.95 (ages 9-13) 
For LGBTQ people and their supporters, Pride events are
an opportunity to honor the past, protest injustice, and celebrate a diverse
and vibrant community. The high point of Pride, the Pride Parade, is
spectacular and colorful. But there is a whole lot more to Pride than rainbow
flags and amazing outfits. How did Pride come to be? And what does Pride mean
to the people who celebrate it? |
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The Queer & Transgender Resilience Workbook:
Skills for Navigating Orientation & Gender Expression. Anneliese Singh,
$30.95
Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health
and wellness. It’s what gives people the psychological strength to cope with
everyday stress, as well as major setbacks. For many people, stressful events
may include job loss, financial problems, illness, natural disasters, medical
emergencies, divorce, or the death of a loved one. But if you are queer or
gender non-conforming, life stresses may also include discrimination in housing
and health care, employment barriers, homelessness, family rejection, physical
attacks or threats, and general unfair treatment and oppression—all of which lead
to overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness. So, how can you
gain resilience in a society that is so often toxic and unwelcoming?
In this important workbook, you’ll discover how to
cultivate the key components of resilience: holding a positive view of yourself
and your abilities; knowing your worth and cultivating a strong sense of
self-esteem; effectively utilizing resources; being assertive and creating a
support community; fostering hope and growth within yourself, and finding the strength
to help others. Once you know how to tap into your personal resilience, you’ll
have an unlimited well you can draw from to navigate everyday challenges.
By learning to challenge internalized negative messages
and remove obstacles from your life, you can build the resilience you need to
embrace your truest self in an imperfect world. |
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Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a
Fabulous, Gender Creative Son. Lori Duron, $17.00
RAISING MY RAINBOW is Lori Duron’s
frank account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness
raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving,
sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around
in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady
Gaga's "Paparazzi."
C.J. is gender variant or gender
nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who
likes girl stuff — really likes girl stuff. He floats on the gender-variation
spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to
super-girly-feminine on the right. He's not all pink and not all blue. Written
in Lori's uniquely witty and warm voice and launched by her incredibly popular
blog of the same name, RAISING MY RAINBOW is an unforgettable
story. |
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Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex
Child. Eric and Stephani Lohmanod, $27.95
There is often medical pressure on parents of intersex
children to have their child's gender reassigned at birth, based on cultural
ideas of gender. When their daughter Rosie was born, Eric and Stephani Lohman
found themselves thrust into a situation they were not prepared for. Born
intersex — a term that describes people who are born with a variety of physical
characteristics that do not fit neatly into traditional conceptions about male
and female bodies — Rosie's parents were pressured to consent to normalizing
surgery on Rosie, without being offered any alternatives despite their
concerns.
Part memoir, part guidebook, this powerful book tells the
authors' experience of refusing to have Rosie operated on and how they raised a
child who is intersex. The book looks at how they spoke about the condition to
friends and family, to Rosie's teachers and caregivers, and shows how they plan
on explaining it to Rosie when she is older. This uplifting and empowering
story is a must read for all parents of intersex children. |
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Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender
Child with No Strings Attached. Hillary Whittington, $19.99
When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video
chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl to boy, they
didn’t expect it to be greeted with such fervor. Beautiful and moving, the
video documenting Hillary and Jeff’s love for their child instantly went viral
and has been seen by more than seven million viewers since its posting.
Now, for the first time, they tell their story in full,
offering an emotional, moving account of their journey alongside their
exceptional child. From the earliest stages of deciphering Ryland through
clothing choices to examining the difficult conversations that have marked
every stage of Ryland’s transition, Hillary Whittington shares her experiences
as a mother through it all, demonstrating both the resistance and support that
their family has encountered as they try to erase the stigma surrounding the
word transgender. What emerges is a powerful story of unconditional love. |
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Raising The Transgender Child: a Complete Guide for
Parents, Families & Caregivers. Michele Angello & Alisa Bowman,
$24.50
Raising the Transgender Child helps readers
champion and celebrate gender diverse children while at the same time shedding
fear, anger, sadness, and embarrassment. With specific and actionable advice including
coming-out letters, identity challenges, school and caregiver communications,
the guide provides a wealth of science-backed information alongside friendly
and practical wisdom that is sure to comfort, guide, and inspire the family and
friends of transgender and gender diverse children. |
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Rethinking Normal: a Memoir in Transition. Katie
Rain Hill, $17.99
Katie never felt
comfortable in her own skin. She realized very young that a serious mistake had
been made; she was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy. Suffocating
under her peers’ bullying and the mounting pressure to be “normal,” Katie tried
to take her life at the age of eight years old. After several other failed
attempts, she finally understood that “Katie” — the girl trapped within her — was
determined to live.
In this first-person account, Katie reflects on
her pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the life-changing
decision to undergo gender reassignment as a teenager. She reveals the unique
challenges she faced while unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was
like to navigate the dating world and experience heartbreak for the first time
in a body that matched her gender identity. Told in an unwaveringly honest
voice, Rethinking Normal is a coming-of-age story about transcending physical
appearances and redefining the parameters of “normalcy” to embody one’s true
self. |
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Some Assembly Required: the Not-So-Secret Life of a
Transgender Teen. Arin Andrews, $21.99 (Ages 14 +)
We’ve all felt uncomfortable in our own skin at some
point, and we’ve all been told that “it’s just a part of growing up.” But for
Arin Andrews, it wasn’t a phase that would pass. He had been born in the body
of a girl and there seemed to be no relief in sight. In this revolutionary
memoir, Arin details the journey that led him to make the life-transforming
decision to undergo gender reassignment as a high school junior. In his
captivatingly witty, honest voice, Arin reveals the challenges he faced as a
girl, the humiliation and anger he felt after getting kicked out of his private
school, and all the changes — both mental and physical — he experienced once his
transition began.
Some Assembly Required is a true coming-of-age story about knocking
down obstacles and embracing family, friendship, and first love. But more than
that, it is a reminder that self-acceptance does not come ready-made with a
manual and spare parts. Rather, some assembly is always required. |
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Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon. Jacinta Bunnell, illustrated by Nathaniel Kusinitz, $11.00
This radically different activity book takes anecdotes from the lives of real kids and mixes them with classic tales to create true-to-life characters, situations and resolutions. Featuring massive beasts who enjoy dainty jewelry and princess who build rocket ships, this fun for all-ages coloring book celebrates those who do not fit into disempowering gender categorizations, from sensitive boys to tough girls. |
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Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus. Rachelle Lee
Smith, $17.99
Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus is a
photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the
perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages fourteen to twenty-four,
identifying as queer (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or
questioning). Portraits are presented without judgment or stereotype by
eliminating environmental influence with a stark white backdrop. This backdrop
acts as a blank canvas, where each subject’s personal thoughts are handwritten
onto the final photographic print. With more than sixty-five portraits
photographed over a period of ten years, Speaking OUT provides rare
insight into the passions, confusions, prejudices, joys, and sorrows felt by
queer youth. |
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Straight Expectations: the Story of a Family In
Transition. Peggy Cryden, $19.95
Ever since they were young, Peggy Cryden noticed her
children's gender expression did not correspond with society's expectations of
their biological gender. In this moving and honest memoir, Peggy details the
experiences and challenges of raising both a gay son and a gay, transgender son
and shares her family's journey of adversity and growth, which has helped
inform her work as a psychotherapist.
Beginning with her own unconventional upbringing and
personal relationships, the second half of the book follows her children from
birth to adulthood and through their numerous experiences including coming out,
depression, hate crime, relationships, school and various aspects to do with
transitioning (legal, physical, medical, social) as well as their appearances
in the media as a family. This book is insightful, charming and
thought-provoking, and through levity and humour, offers a positive approach to
parenting outside of convention. |
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Supporting Young Transgender Men: a Guide for
Professionals. Matthew Waites, $37.95
There is currently a lack of information available
regarding the specific needs of young transgender men, and the barriers that
they face. This can lead to professionals having to give generic advice, which
may not be appropriate for the situation. Written to address this shortfall,
this book provides professionals with the guidance they need to effectively and
supportively work with young transgender men.
It looks at some of the obstacles that trans men face
across health and care services. Addressing topics such as the social impact of
transitioning, the potential impact on mental health and emotional wellbeing
and common myths and misconceptions about transitioning, this guide is
essential for anyone working with young transgender men. |
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10,000 Dresses. Marcus
Ewert, $14.95
Every night, Bailey dreams about magical
dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made
of flowers, dresses made of windows...
Unfortunately, when
Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful
dreams. Quite the contrary. "You're
a BOY!" Mother and Father tell Bailey. "You shouldn't
be thinking about dresses at all." Then Bailey meets Laurel,
an older girl who is touched and inspired by Bailey’s imagination
and courage. In friendship, the two of them begin making dresses
together and Bailey’s dreams come true!
This gorgeous picture book — a modern fairy tale about becoming
the person you feel you are inside — will delight people
of all ages. |
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This Day in June. Gayle Pitman, $13.95
In a wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant
reflection of the LGBT community, This Day In June welcomes
readers to experience a pride celebration and share in a day when we are all
united.
Also included is a Reading Guide chock-full of
facts about LGBT history and culture, as well as a Note to Parents and
Caregivers with information on how to talk to children about sexual
orientation and gender identity in age-appropriate ways.
This Day In June is an excellent tool for
teaching respect, acceptance, and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people. |
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To My Trans Sisters. Edited by Charlie Craggs,
$22.95
Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational
collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they
learnt on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements and
empowering the next generation to become who they truly are.
Written by politicians, scientists, models, athletes,
authors, actors, and activists from around the world, these letters capture the
diversity of the trans experience and offer advice from make-up and dating
through to fighting dysphoria and transphobia. By turns honest and heartfelt,
funny and furious or beautiful and brave, these letters send a clear message of
hope to their sisters: each of these women have gone through the struggles of
transition and emerged the other side as accomplished, confident women; and if
we made it sister, so can you! |
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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: a Resource for the
Transgender Community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, $55.50
There is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and
gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their
gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as
separate concepts, and we have learned that sex (traditionally thought of as
physical or biological) is as variable as gender (traditionally thought of as
social). While trans people share many common experiences, there is
immense diversity within trans communities. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is
a revolutionary resource — a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for
transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer
authors.
Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful
compendium written for and by women, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is
widely accessible to the transgender population, providing authoritative
information in an inclusive and respectful way and representing the collective
knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. Each chapter takes the reader
through an important transgender issue, such as race, religion, employment,
medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships,
sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more.
Anonymous quotes and testimonials from transgender people who have been
surveyed about their experiences are woven throughout, adding compelling,
personal voices to every page. In this unique way, hundreds of viewpoints from
throughout the community have united to create this strong and pioneering book.
It is a welcoming place for transgender and gender-questioning people, their
partners and families, students, professors, guidance counselors, and others to
look for up-to-date information on transgender life. |
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The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their
Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution. Ann Travers, $24.95
Some “boys” will only wear dresses; some “girls” refuse
to wear dresses at all. In both cases, as Ann Travers shows in this fascinating
account of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices.
From very early ages these children find themselves to be different from the
sex category that was assigned to them at birth. How they make their voices
heard — to their parents and friends, in schools, in public spaces, and through
the courts — is the focus of this remarkable and groundbreaking book.
Based on over five years of research in Canad and the U.S., and interviews with
trans kids and their parents, The Trans Generation offers a rare look
into what it is like to grow up as a transgender child. Illuminating the
day-to-day realities of trans kids who regularly experience crisis as a result
of the many ways traditional sex categories regulate their lives, Travers
offers an essential and important new understanding of childhood. |
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TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria. Az Hakeem, Editor, $25.95
TRANS is a book for everyone — insightful enough
for professionals, but accessible enough for all. It presents an easy-to-read,
jargon-free guide to help anyone understand the terminology, the concept and
the day-to-day reality of gender dysphoria and related concepts. |
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The Trans Partner Handbook: a Guide for When Your
Partner Transitions. Jo Green, $21.95
Individuals who transition from one gender to another are
often in some degree of a relationship, and over 55% of these relationships
endure through the transition process.
While more resources are emerging for trans people
themselves, there is very little information available for their partners.
Through first-hand accounts and vignettes of successful partnerships, this book
presents detailed descriptions of everything involved in the transition
process, with specific guidance for those supporting a partner in transition.
Topics include disclosure, mental health, coming out, loss and grief, sex and
sexuality and the legal, medical and social practicalities of transitioning. In
this essential guide, people whose partners are across the transgender spectrum
speak out on their own experiences with personal advice and support for others. |
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Trans Teen Survival Guide. Owl & Fox Fisher, $24.95
Frank, friendly and funny, the Trans Teen Survival
Guide will leave transgender and non-binary teens informed, empowered and
armed with all the tips, confidence and practical advice they need to navigate
life as a trans teen. Wondering how to come out to your family and friends,
what it's like to go through cross hormonal therapy or how to put on a packer?
Trans youth activists Fox and Owl have stepped in to answer everything that
trans teens and their families need to know.
With a focus on self-care, expression and being proud of
your unique identity, the guide is packed full of invaluable advice from people
who understand the realities and complexities of growing up trans. Having been
there, done that, Fox and Owl are able to honestly chart the course of life as
a trans teen, from potentially life-saving advice on dealing with dysphoria or
depression, to hilarious real-life awkward trans stories. |
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Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are. Declan Henry,
$17.95
Foregrounding the voices of transgender and non-binary
people, this honest and insightful book is a compilation of the voices of those
who have decided to undergo transition — both male-to-female and
female-to-male. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with individuals, the
book details the diverse experiences and challenges faced by those who
transition, exploring a range of topics such as hormone treatments;
reassignment surgeries; coming out; sex and sexuality; physical, emotional and
mental health; transphobia; discrimination; and hate crime, as well as
highlighting the lives of non-binary individuals and those who cross-dress to
form a wider understanding of the varied ways in which people experience
gender.
This powerful book is an ideal introduction to those keen
to understand more about contemporary trans issues as well as those questioning
their own gender identity. |
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Transfixed: a Love Story That Defies All Conventions. A
Film by Alon Kol, $27.00 (DVD, 74 minutes)
As a society, we pride ourselves on respect for
diversity and equality, but sometimes there are people who cross our paths who
require a more complex kind of understanding. What happens when two people are
so unique, so different, that they break every possible convention?
Transfixed is a documentary that tells the
story of a highly unconventional romance. Martine
Stonehouse and John Gelman are engaged, and are both living with
Asperger Syndrome. Martine is a transsexual who is preparing for the surgery
that will change her into the woman she has always believed herself to be.
Martine's main motivation is her quest to marry John, who identifies
"straight" and promises to end their relationship unless she
"gets a vagina."
Before John and Martine can fulfill their dream of living
as husband and wife, they will have to overcome Martine's battle to lose
weight, John's stubborn-mindedness, a series of medical complications,
financial woes, and a stressful race to pull off the ultimate wedding — one
that simultaneously celebrates and smashes down romantic conventions, and one
that is as unique and compelling as they are. At its core, Transfixedmakes
us ask: What is love? What is a relationship? Martine and John's love may not
be our ideal picture of romantic love, but somehow they make it work.
They're one step beyond post-post modern — a quirky mixture of
conservative dreams, liberal politics, and their own fearless and charming idiosyncrasies. |
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The Transgender
Child: a Handbook for Families and Professionals. Stephanie
Brill & Rachel Pepper, $24.95
Covering developmental, medical,
social, school and legal issues, The Transgender Child is
a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique
challenges that families face when raising a child who steps
outside of the “pink or blue box”. |
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Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and
Joy with Families in Transition. Elijah Nealy, $36.95
These days, it is practically impossible not to hear
about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in
North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans life has
become front and centre after years of marginalisation. And kids are coming out
as trans at younger and younger ages, which is a good thing for them. But what
written resources are available to parents, teachers and mental health
professionals who need to support these children?
Elijah Nealy, a therapist and former deputy executive
director of New York City’s LGBT Community Center, and himself a trans man, has
written the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding, supporting, and
welcoming trans kids. Covering everything from family life to school and mental
health issues, as well as the physical, social and emotional aspects of
transition, this book is full of best practices to support trans kids. |
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Transgender Employees in the Workplace: a Guide for
Employers. Jennie Kermode, $29.95
Respect and understanding between colleagues is essential
in any healthy, productive, equal-opportunities workplace. But as an employer,
are you aware of the specific needs of transgender employees and applicants?
This concise volume is the essential introduction for any
employer on how to work effectively and respectfully with transgender
employees, without asking the employee inappropriate or personal questions. In
simple terms, it explains what it means to be transgender, the common
challenges transgender people experience, and how you can best support
transgender employees in their roles, and in their relationships with
colleagues and clients.
The book clarifies employers' legal responsibilities
towards employees, offers practical solutions to bullying, and provides
information on health and safety as well as medical issues such as surgeries
and hormone therapy. The glossary of terms elucidates the finer points, such as
the correct language to use with the employee, and the crucial differences
between transgender identities, including gender variant and non-binary. By
improving professional relationships company-wide and promoting your employees'
wellbeing, this book will ultimately assist you in building a happier and
higher-performing work force. |
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Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices. Kristin
Cronn-Mills, $41.50
Meet Katie, Hayden, Dean, Brooke, David, Julia, and
Natasha. Each is transgender, and in this book, they share their personal
stories. Through their narratives, you'll get to know and love each person for
their humor, intelligence, perseverance, and passion. You'll learn how they
each came to better understand, accept, and express their gender identities,
and you'll follow them through the sorrows and successes of their personal
journeys. Transgender Lives helps you understand what it means to be
transgender in America while learning more about transgender history, the broad
spectrum of transgender identities, and the transition process. You'll explore
the challenges transgender Americans face, including discrimination, prejudice,
bullying and violence, unequal access to medical care, and limited legal
protections. For transgender readers, these stories offer support and
encouragement. Transgender Lives is a space for trans voices to be
heard and to express the complexities of gender while focusing on what it means
to be human. |
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The Transgender Teen: a Handbook for Parents and
Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens. Stephanie Brill
& Lisa Kenney, $24.95
What do you do when your son announces he is transgender
and asks that you call her by a new name? Or what if your child uses a term
you’ve never heard of to describe themselves (neutrois, agender, non-binary,
genderqueer, androgyne…) and when you didn’t know what they meant, they left
the room and now won’t speak to you about it? Perhaps your daughter recently
asked you not to use gendered pronouns when referring to ‘her’ anymore,
preferring that you use “they”; you’re left wondering if this is just a phase,
or if there’s something more that you need to understand about your child.
There is a generational divide in our understandings of
gender. This comprehensive guidebook helps to bridge that divide by exploring
the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a
teenager who may be transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid or otherwise
gender-expansive. Combining years of experience working in the field with
extensive research and personal interviews, the authors cover pressing concerns
relating to physical and emotional development, social and school pressures,
medical considerations, and family communications. Learn how parents can more
deeply understand their children, and raise their non-binary or transgender
adolescent with love and compassion. |
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Transitioning Together: One Couple's Journey of Gender
and Identity Discovery. Wenn & Beatrice Lawson, $24.95
This is the story of a long-lasting relationship,
surviving against the odds. It is the story of Wenn and Beatrice Lawson, born
almost twelve years apart in different countries with different cultures, who
were both assigned female at birth. After nineteen years of marriage and four
children, Wenn entered a same-sex relationship with Beatrice. Little did
Beatrice know that twenty-two years later, Wenn would transition from female to
male. This unique and honest memoir tells the story of Wenn's transition and
Beatrice's journey alongside him.
Co-written by Wenn and Beatrice, who are both on the
autism spectrum, this book offers a rare insight into an older couple's
experience of transition, with particular emphasis on how Beatrice really felt
about the changes. Without holding back, they tell the true story of the
conflicts, challenges and growing celebration and joy that can arise from
transitioning together as a couple. |
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Transitions of the Heart: Stories of
Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant
Children. Edited by Rachel Pepper, $22.95
TRANSITIONS OF THE HEART is the first
collection to invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children to tell
their own stories. Often "transitioning" socially and emotionally
alongside their children, parents have their own parallel process to work
through, and few resources to depend on. Editor Rachel Pepper has gathered
voices of women from all walks of life, with children ranging in age from six
to sixty, to share their experiences. These mothers have learned how to
advocate for their children and themselves. By speaking out here, they are
blazing a brave trail for others to follow. |
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Transparent:
Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers.
Cris Beam, $15.95
When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles,
she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a
school for gay and transgender kids while she got settled. Instead,
she found herself drawn, more deeply than she could ever have imagined,
into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered.
In Transparent she introduces four of them
and as she earns their trust she shows us their world, a dizzying
mix of familiar teenage cliques and crushes with far less familiar
challenges like how to morph your body on a few dollars a day. Funny,
heartbreaking, defiant, and sometimes defeated, the girls form a
singular community. But they struggle valiantly to resolve the gap
between the way they feel inside and the way the world sees them.
Beam's astute reporting, sensitive writing, and passionate engagement
with her characters place this book in the ranks of the very best
narrative nonfiction. |
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Transphobia — Deal With It. J. Wallace Skelton,
illustrated by Nick Johnson, $24.95 (ages 9-13)
Transphobia is intolerance of any part of the range of
gender identity. This accessible, illustrated book offers information, quizzes,
comics and true-to-life scenarios to help kids better understand gender
identity and determine what they can do to identify and counter transphobia in their
schools, homes and communities. Considered from the viewpoint of gender
explorers, gender enforcers and witnesses, transphobic behaviour is identified,
examined and put into a context that kids can use to understand and accept
themselves and others for whatever gender they are — even if that's no gender
at all! |
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Undoing Homophobia
in Primary Schools. The No Outsiders Project Team, $29.95
This book is a celebration of recognition, affirmation and inclusion. Primary teachers tell the story of how they have challenged the taken-for-granted norms and silences in primary schools around sexual orientation and gender expression. These norms and silences have left lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families marginalized, unrepresented and subject to multiple discrimination, and have allowed embedded homophobia and transphobia to go largely unchallenged. Through their accounts of practice, reflections and interpretations, vignettes and images, the teachers describe how they have challenged this unaddressed area of inclusion across sites across England ranging from a tiny village church school to urban and suburban settings. Working within and beyond the curriculum, teachers have broken boundaries in primary practice for sexualities and gender equality.
This book shows it is not only through planned innovations and policy developments that change happens but also, and crucially, in the day-to-day moments where new thinking leads to new action for equality and social justice. |
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The Unfinished Dollhouse: a Memoir of Gender and
Identity. Michelle Alfano, $22.95 
The central metaphor of The Unfinished Dollhouse tells the story: on Frankie's fourth birthday, her parents Michelle and Rob
purchased a kit to create a beautiful dollhouse. Michelle imagined building the
home, buying the tiny pieces of furniture and accessories to fill it and, more
importantly, the times she and her daughter would spend constructing the
perfect dollhouse — a fantasy of domestic and familial happiness. Frankie
expressed no interest in such typically girlish pursuits because Frankie
harboured a secret — a secret about gender.
In the years to follow, Frankie's parents experienced an
education in parenting a child transitioning from female to male — which
pronouns to use, how to disclose the information to friends, family, school and
how to deal with the reactions of all — some heartening, some surprising, some
disappointing. In Michelle Alfano's intimate memoir, she recounts her
experience as the mother of a transgender child. |
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The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: a
Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication.
Matthew Mills & Gillie Stoneham, $39.95
Written by two specialist speech and language therapists,
this book explains how voice and communication therapy can help transgender and
non-binary people to find their authentic voice. It gives a thorough account of
the process, from understanding the vocal mechanism through to assimilating new
vocal skills and new vocal identity into everyday situations, and includes
exercises to change pitch, resonance and intonation. Each chapter features
insider accounts from trans and gender diverse individuals who have explored or
are exploring voice and communication related to their gender expression,
describing key aspects of their experience of creating and maintaining a voice
that feels true to them.
This guide is an essential, comprehensive source for
trans and non-binary individuals who are interested in working towards
achieving a different, more authentic voice, and will be a valuable resource
for speech and language therapists/pathologists, voice coaches and healthcare
professionals. |
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Where's the Mother? Stories from a Transgender Dad. Trevor
MacDonald, $21.99
In a time when to most people “pregnancy” automatically
means “motherhood,” what is it like to get pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed
a child — all while being an out transgender man?
When Trevor MacDonald decided to start a family, he knew
that the world was going to have questions for him. Luckily for the reader,
Trevor responds with grace and humour. His stories convey the intimate and
sometimes surprising realities of the transgender parenting experience. This
memoir is a book about being a breastfeeding parent and a transgender man, and
the many beautiful, moving, and difficult ways these two identities collide. |
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Written On the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary
Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. Edited by Lexie Bean,
$27.95
This collection of letters written to body parts weaves
together narratives of gender, identity, and abuse. It is the coming together
of those who have been fragmented and often met with disbelief. The book holds
the concerns and truths that many trans people share while offering space for
dialogue and reclamation. Written with intelligence and intimacy, this book is
for those who have found power in re-shaping their bodies, families, and lives. |
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Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from
Self-Loathing to Self-Love. Mia Violet, $21.95
This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing
up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on
her life and how at 26 she came to finally realise she was 'trans enough' to be
transgender, after years of knowing she was different but without the language
to understand why.
From bullying, heartache and a botched coming out
attempt, through to counselling, Gender Identity Clinics and acceptance, Mia
confronts the ins and outs of transitioning, using her charged personal
narrative to explore the most pressing questions in the transgender debate and
confront what the media has gotten wrong. An essential read for anyone who has
had to fight to be themselves. |
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You and Your Gender Identity: a Guide to Discovery. Dara
Hoffman-Fox, $25.99
Are you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender
that just don’t seem to go away? Do you want answers to questions about your
gender identity, but aren’t sure how to get started? In this groundbreaking
guide, Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC — accomplished gender therapist and thought leader
whose articles, blogs, and videos have empowered thousands worldwide — helps you
navigate your journey of self-discovery in three approachable stages:
preparation, reflection, and exploration.
In You and Your Gender Identity, you will learn:
- Why understanding your gender identity is core to embracing your
full being
- How to sustain the highs and lows of your journey with resources,
connection, and self-care
- How to uncover and move through your feelings of fear,
loneliness, and doubt
- Why it’s important to examine your past through the lens of
gender exploration
- How to discover and begin living as your authentic self
- What options you have after making your discoveries about your
gender identity
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Resources
for Families & Educators
Acting Out! Combating Homophobia through Teacher Activism.
Mollie Blackburn, Caroline Clark, Lauren Kenney & Jill Smith, $29.95
Always My Child: a Parent’s Guide to Understanding Your Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-Gendered or Questioning Son or Daughter. Kevin Jennings,
$26.99
At the Broken Places: a Mother and Trans Son Pick Up
the Pieces. Mary Collins & Donald Collins, $22.00
Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child: a
Guide for Parents and Carers. Anna Bianchi, $23.95
Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American Family.
Amy Ellis Nutt, $22.00
Can I Tell You about Gender Diversity? A Guide for
Family and Friends. CJ Atkinson, illustrated by Olly Pike, $17.95 (ages
11++)
Coming Around: Parenting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Kids. Anne Dohrenwend, $18.50
The Conscious Parent's Guide to Gender Identity: a Mindful
Approach to Embracing Your Child's Authentic Self. Darlene Tando, $18.99
Counseling Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: the
Essential Guide. Irwin Krieger, $37.95
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But
Were Afraid to Ask). Brynn Tannehill, $27.95
First Year Out: a Transition Story. Sabrina
Symington, $28.95 (graphic novel)
From the Dress-Up Corner to the Senior Prom: Navigating
Gender and Sexual Diversity in PreK-12 Schools. Jennifer Bryan, $48.95
The Full Spectrum: a New Generation of Writing about Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities. David
Levithan & Billy Merrell, editors, $10.99
Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy
Gender-Nonconforming Children. Diane Ehrensaft, $25.95
Gender, Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism
and Homophobia in Schools. Elizabeth Meyer, $39.50
The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and
Supporting Children Who Love Outside Gender Boxes. Diane Ehrensaft, $23.95
Gender Equality In Primary Schools: a Guide for
Teachers. Helen Griffin, $29.95
Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from
Across the Spectrum. Eva Mendes & Meredith Maroney, $35.95
Gender: Your Guide. A Gender-Friendly Primer On What
to Know, What to Say, an What to Do In the New Gender Culture. Lee Airton,
$33.99
Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools.
Rebecca Haskell & Brian Burtch, $18.95
Growing Into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in
Canada. André Grace, with Kristopher Wells, $34.95
Helping Your Transgender Teen: a Guide for Parents,
2nd Edition. Irwin Krieger, $15.95
He's Always Been My Son: a Mother's Story about
Raising Her Transgender Son. Janna Barkin, $22.95
How to Understand Your Gender: a Practical Guide for
Exploring Who You Are. Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker, $22.95
Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian Daughters
and FTM Transgender Children. Sarah Pearlman, $24.95
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My Brother, My Sister: Story of a Transformation. Molly
Haskell, $18.00
Oscar of Between: a Memoir of Identity and Ideas. Betsy
Warland, $21.95
A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating
Well-Being. Ellen Riggle & Sharon Rostosky, $23.95
A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity and Sexuality in
Early Years. Deborah Price, $29.95
The Queer & Transgender Resilience Workbook:
Skills for Navigating Orientation & Gender Expression. Anneliese Singh,
$30.95
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender
Creative Son. Lori Duron, $17.00
Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child
with No Strings Attached. Hillary Whittington, $19.99
Raising The Transgender Child: a Complete Guide for Parents,
Families & Caregivers. Michele Angello & Alisa Bowman, $24.50
Rethinking Normal: a Memoir in Transition. Katie Rain Hill,
$17.99
Straight Expectations: the Story of a Family In
Transition. Peggy Cryden, $19.95
Supporting Young Transgender Men: a Guide for
Professionals. Matthew Waites, $37.95
To My Trans Sisters. Edited by Charlie Craggs,
$22.95
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: a Resource for the Transgender
Community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, $55.50
TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria. Az Hakeem, Editor, $25.95
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their
Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution. Ann Travers, $24.95
The Trans Partner Handbook: a Guide for When Your
Partner Transitions. Jo Green, $21.95
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are. Declan Henry,
$17.95
Transfixed: a Love Story That Defies All Conventions. A Film
by Alon Kol, $27.00 (DVD, 74 minutes)
The Transgender Child: a Handbook for Families and
Professionals. Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper, $24.95
Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and
Joy with Families in Transition. Elijah Nealy, $36.95
Transgender Employees in the Workplace: a Guide for
Employers. Jennie Kermode, $29.95
Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices. Kristin
Cronn-Mills, $46.95
The Transgender Teen: a Handbook for Parents and
Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens. Stephanie Brill
& Lisa Kenney, $24.50
Transitioning Together: One Couple's Journey of Gender
and Identity Discovery. Wenn & Beatrice Lawson, $24.95
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and
Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children. Edited by
Rachel Pepper, $24.95
Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender
Teenagers. Cris Beam, $15.95
Undoing Homophobia in Primary Schools. The No Outsiders
Project Team, $29.95
The Unfinished Dollhouse: a Memoir of Gender and
Identity. Michelle Alfano, $22.95
The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: a
Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication.
Matthew Mills & Gillie Stoneham, $39.95
Where's the Mother? Stories from a Transgender
Dad. Trevor MacDonald, $21.99
Written On the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary
Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. Edited by Lexie Bean,
$27.95
Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from
Self-Loathing to Self-Love. Mia Violet, $21.95
You and Your Gender Identity: a Guide to Discovery. Dara
Hoffman-Fox, $25.99
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Resources
for Children and Teens
Almost Perfect. Brian Katcher, $10.99
Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl? Sarah Savage
& Fox Fisher, $21.95
Are You a Boy or a Girl? Karleen Pendelton Jiménez, $11.95
Be Who You Are! Jennifer Carr, illustrated by Ben Rumback,
$29.95 (ages 4 to 8)
Becoming: a Gender Flipbook. Yishay Garbasz, $26.95
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. Jazz Jennings,
$23.99
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out. Susan Kuklin,
$17.00 (ages 13+)
From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea. Kai
Cheng Thom, illustrated by Wai-Yant Li & Kai Yun Ching, $18.95
The Gender Quest Workbook: a Guide for Teens & Young
Adults Exploring Gender Identity. Rylan Jay Testa, Deborah Coolhart, Jayme
Peta, $24.95
Girls are Not Chicks Coloring Book. Jacinta Bunnell,
illustrated by Julie Novak, $11.00 (ages 5+)
GLBTQ: the Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens.
Kelly Huegel, $21.50
Happy Families. Tanita Davis, $10.99 (novel for ages 13+,
about a transgender parent)
I Am J. Cris Beam, $12.00 (novel, ages 13+)
I Am Jazz. Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, illustrated by
Shelagh McNichols, $19.99
Introducing Teddy: a Gentle Story about Gender and
Friendship. Jessica Walton, illustrated by Dougal MacPherson, $19.99
Jacob's New Dress. Sarah & Ian Hoffman, illustrated by
Chris Case, $26.99 (ages 4-8)
Jamie Is Jamie: a Book About Being Yourself and
Playing Your Way. Afsanch Moradian, illustrated by Maria Bogade, $18.99
(ages 4-8)
Luna. Julie Anne Peters, $8.99 (novel, ages 14+)
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My New Gender Workbook: a Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving
World Peace through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition. Kate
Bornstein, $53.95 (ages 14+)
My Princess Boy: a Mom's Story about a Young Boy Who Loves
to Dress Up. Cheryl Kilodavis, $21.99 (ages 3+)
Parrotfish. Ellen Wittlinger, $11.99 (novel, ages 14 and up)
Phoenix Goes to School. Michelle Phoenix Finch,
illustrated by Sharon Davey, $19.95 (ages 3-7)
PRIDE: Celebrating Diversity & Community. Robin
Stevenson, $24.95 (ages 9-13)
Some Assembly Required: the Not-So-Secret Life of a
Transgender Teen. Arin Andrews, $21.99 (14 +)
Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon. Jacinta
Bunnell, illustrated by Nathaniel Kusinitz, $11.00 (ages 5+)
Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus. Rachelle Lee Smith,
$17.99
10,000 Dresses. Marcus Ewert, $14.95 (school age)
This Day in June. Gayle Pitman, $13.95
Trans Teen Survival Guide. Owl & Fox Fisher, $24.95
Transphobia — Deal With It. J. Wallace Skelton, illustrated
by Nick Johnson, $24.95 (ages 9-13)
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See also: LGBTQQ Resources, Homophobia in the School,
LGBTQ Families

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