A new picture book is the third in a series by a Stonewall Award-winning author about a transgender boy and his friends, and shows it’s possible to create picture books about LGBTQ characters that neither dwell on nor ignore their LGBTQ identities.
Could you use an uplifting video today? I sure could. Here’s Rebekah Bruesehoff, a 13-year-old transgender advocate and writer who inspired a Marvel comic.
Yesterday was the annual Jazz & Friends National Day of School and Community Readings, organized by HRC’s Welcoming Schools program. Watch Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), the first lesbian mom elected to Congress, and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), a strong LGBTQ ally, read two great children’s books on gender identity on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives!
The author of one of the year’s best LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books is back with the first two volumes of a series (a series!) starring a transgender boy and his friends.
A new picture book is based on the true story of Ho‘onani Kamai, an eleven-year-old Native Hawaiian who feels an identity in-between a boy and a girl. When Ho’onani’s school decides that the boys will perform a traditional hula chant, Ho’onani wants to join them, and must find physical and emotional strength to do so.
Three new children’s books each offer different approaches as they highlight different aspects of gender identity and expression.
A new study has shown the key, damaging, role parents play in “conversion therapy” efforts to change their LGBT children’s sexual orientation, and how this exacerbates health and adjustment problems for their children even into young adulthood.
National Coming Out Day is this week, and I’m celebrating with reviews of several new LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books that are coming out! The first—part of a partnership to increase LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books—is about a girl learning to understand her transgender sibling.
Transgender children have been much in the headlines after President Trump rescinded Title IX protections for trans students. That would be enough to make Laurie Frankel’s new novel, about parents raising a trans daughter, relevant and timely. This Is How It Always Is would, however, be an exceptional book about parenting, family, and identity at any time.
In light of the Trump administration’s decision yesterday to rescind guidance that protected transgender students, I felt it was especially important to share a great new resource for kids (and their grown-ups) about gender identity.
