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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender girl in the U.K., was murdered last Saturday. Her death should remind us of the dire need to protect trans youth and all trans lives.
When I discovered that Newbery Honoree and Stonewall Award winner Kyle Lukoff would be doing a reading at a nearby children’s library last Saturday, I immediately changed my plans and went to hear him. I wasn’t disappointed.
The fourth episode of this season’s The L Word: Generation Q centered a joyous look at transgender, nonbinary parents and their kids, discussed LGBTQ parental names, which I’ve been collecting for over a decade, and mentioned the restaurant of a queer chef who has a picture book about her. Here’s my parenting-focused recap!
Today marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a time to honor the lives of those who died because of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. I wish all of my transgender friends and readers love and support on this day of mourning.
It’s Transgender Awareness Week, so I’m rounding up some of this year’s great books featuring trans people—picture and board books, middle grade titles, and books for parents!
