A farmer father makes the decision to support his transgender daughter in Not Losing You, a powerful and touching new video aimed at preventing future suicides of trans and LGBTQ youth. It will bring tears to your eyes, but also give you hope.
Let’s lean into the music today—with the new video of “The Many I Am,” singer-songwriter Carrie Ferguson’s “gender queer disco rock dance party anthem,” starring an amazing group of transgender, nonbinary, and queer dancers.
Kids aren’t the only ones getting great new LGBTQ-inclusive books! Four new LGBTQ parenting books—two on supporting trans children and two on being queer parents—offer useful insights and guidance from a variety of perspectives.
The U.S. Department of Education has released regulations that will better protect LGBTQ students, sexual violence survivors, and others against discrimination in schools. Regulations addressing the inclusion of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students in school sports, however, are still pending.
This Sunday marks Transgender Day of Visibility, so let’s showcase some middle grade and picture book titles from 2023 and 2024 with transgender protagonists, great to read all year ’round!
South Carolina’s Greenville County library board voted unanimously this week to move all children’s books with trans characters or others that show gender “in ways inconsistent with the minor’s biological sex” out of the children’s section—but they adopted an amendment so books with “tomboy” characters could stay. As a “tomboy” myself, I find this appalling rather than comforting.
Like many of us, I have been saddened and angered by the death of 16-year-old nonbinary transgender student Nex Benedict after an assault at school. Nex’s death is a tragedy—and Nex is not the only trans young person to have died too soon.
A new, action-oriented guide for educators and others wanting to create supportive school environments for trans and nonbinary youth is set to be one of the most important LGBTQ-related books of the year. The authors spoke with me about their work.
It’s Transgender Awareness Week and National Young Readers Week, which means it’s time for a roundup of some great picture, chapter, and middle grade books from 2023 with trans characters!
For Transgender Day of Visibility, I can think of no better book to highlight than this engaging middle-grade memoir by a young trans teen himself, telling his own childhood story. It feels like a vital, potentially lifesaving book at this moment in time.
