Myers, Kyl

Summary: "'What did you have? A boy or a girl?' Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then... As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books/Little A 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYERS, KYL MYE

Summary: "A Q&A format book of the most frequently asked questions by parents of trans children, answered by parents of trans children who have been there, and whose trans children are thriving"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MY

Bruesehoff, Jamie

Summary: "Drawing on the author's experience as the mother of a transgender child and her years of advocacy work, this book helps Christian parents navigate the emotional, spiritual, and logistical landscape of raising a gender-diverse child. It paints a picture of who transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people are and what they need to thrive"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1564 BRU

Meadow, Tey

Summary: "In the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child, ethnographer Tey Meadow introduces readers to a generation of parents who actively facilitate gender nonconformity in their children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at cure, but today such families call their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 MEA

Gill-Peterson, Julian

Summary: With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 GIL

Lukoff, Kyle

Summary: "When Max starts school, the teacher hesitates to call out the name on the attendance sheet. Something doesn't seem to fit. Max lets her know the name he wants to be called by--a boy's name. This begins Max's journey as he makes new friends and reveals his feelings about his identity to his parents. Written with warmth and sensitivity by trans writer Kyle Lukoff, this book is a sweet and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUK

Travers, Ann

Summary: Some "boys" will only wear dresses; some "girls" refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Ann Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices. Travers shows that from very early ages, some at two and three years old, these kids find themselves to be different from the sex category that was assigned to them at birth....

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 TRA

Gino, Alex

Summary: "When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part ... because she's a boy. With the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIN

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Summary: "Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble"--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MY

Hassouri, Paria

Summary: "In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASSOURI, PARIA HAS