12 Kids’ Books from 2023 With Transgender Characters
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!
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14 Kids’ Books Featuring Transgender Parents
Happy Transgender Parent Day! For today and any day, here are some great picture books (including a brand-new one!) and middle grade titles featuring trans parents and their kids. I wish all transgender parents a day full of love and happiness, and many more to come.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
New babies, moms making history, fresh insights on trans parents, advances in reproductive science, political progress, and more! Here’s what’s happening that I haven’t covered already.
4 New Kids’ Books Showcase Trans Heroes and Explain Gender Identity
What better way to celebrate Pride this year than with three new kids’ books about trans heroes—plus a new chapter book about gender identity!
Glamour UK Pride Issue Features Pregnant Trans Man Logan Brown
Glamour UK’s Pride cover features transgender man Logan Brown, who was pregnant at the time and is now a dad. He spoke with them about his experience of pregnancy, birth, and being a trans parent. Click through to see the cover image and learn more.
New Book Showcases Photos and Words of Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families
A stunning new book of more than 60 full-color photographs and accompanying interviews celebrates the lives of transgender and nonbinary people in their own words and those of their family members.
A Trans Boy Tells His Own True Story in Middle-Grade Memoir
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.
3 New LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids’ Books of Joy, Hope, and Belonging
Three terrific new LGBTQ-inclusive books are coming out today, two by creative pairs who have already won places in my heart, and one by an author making a middle-grade debut!
2 New LGBTQ-Inclusive Middle-Grade Graphic Novels Offer 2 Different Tones
A spooky tale about a trans girl and an autistic girl who are their town’s last hope. A gentle tale about a fox-girl trying to prove herself worthy of an important role in her nocturnal village. Two new graphic novels offer readers two very different tones, but similar themes of found family and community.
Florida Rep. Seeks to Expand “Don’t Say Gay/LGBTQ” Law
A Florida legislator has introduced a bill that would expand the state’s “Don’t Say Gay/LGBTQ” law to completely ban instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity from pre-K through eighth grade classrooms and ban the use of pronouns and names aligned with transgender and nonbinary students’ gender identities in schools.
