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• It's About You Too

  Reducing the Overwhelm for Parents of LGBTQ+ Kids

  Whitmore, Tracy (Social worker),

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  With compassion, Tracy guides you through the challenges that can come with raising an LGBTQ+ child, helping you delve into your beliefs, values, thoughts, and emotions, repairing any potential damage to your relationship. This invaluable process…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parenting With Pride

  Unlearn Bias and Embrace, Empower, and Love Your LGBTQ+ Teen

  Hester, Heather

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  The ultimate LGBTQ parenting handbook, guiding parents and caregivers through transformative steps of Embrace, Educate, Empower, and Love so they can support their teen with open arms and hearts.

• He/she/they

  How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  Bailar, Schuyler,

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  Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation.

• This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids

  a Question & Answer Guide to Everyday Life

  Owens-Reid, Dannielle

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  Written in an accessible Q&A format, here, finally, is the go-to resource for parents hoping to understand and communicate with their gay child.

• Becoming An Ally to the Gender-expansive Child

  a Guide for Parents and Carers

  Bianchi, Anna

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  When Anna Bianchi's grandchild asked, "Nanny, you do know I'm a girl, don't you?", Anna recognised this as a pivotal, and daunting, moment in their relationship. She knew that to answer her grandchild, who had been assigned male at birth, her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trans Kids and Teens

  Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition

  Nealy, Elijah C.

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  A comprehensive guide to the medical,emotional, and social issues of trans kids.

• Queer Adolescence

  Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth

  McNabb, Charlie, 1983-

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  Personal accounts mingle with factual information and analysis to provide a snapshot of the joys and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual adolescents.

• How to They/them

  a Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity

  Getty, Stuart,

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  Ever wonder what "nonbinary" or "gender nonconforming" really means? Why would someone choose to identify that way? And how the heck do you use "they/them" pronouns for a singular person - isn't it supposed to be plural? This charming and disarming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/them Pronouns

  Bongiovanni, Archie,

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  A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns.

• A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality

  Muldoon, Molly, 1987-

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  This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to validate their experiences. Asexuality is a real identity and it's time the world recognizes it

• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

  G, Mady (Mady M. Giuliani),

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  Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the spectrum of human experience through informative comics, interviews, worksheets, and imaginative examples. A great starting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They/them/their

  a Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities

  Young, Eris

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  Showing what life is like as a nonbinary or genderqueer person, this book explores relationships, mental and physical health, language use and identity and appearance, providing advice for nonbinary people and how friends and family can support them.

• Raising LGBTQ Allies

  a Parent's Guide to Changing the Messages From the Playground

  Tompkins, Chris (LGBTQ advocate),

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  Raising LGBTQ Allies is the first book to focus on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. It encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way. It also creates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bi

  Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

  Savin-Williams, Ritch C.,

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  Savin-Williams provides an important new understanding of bisexuality as an orientation, behavior, and identity. Bi shows us that bisexuality is seen and embraced as a valid sexual identity more than ever before, giving us timely and much-needed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Allies

  Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again

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  Presents a collection of seventeen essays that explore what being an ally is, needing an ally, and showing up for friends and strangers.

• The Care We Dream of

  Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

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  The Care We Dream Of is not quite an essay collection, and not quite an anthology. Instead, it's a hybrid kind of book that weaves together the author's essays on topics like queering health and healing, transforming the health system, kinship,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raising Them

  Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting

  Myers, Kyl,

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  A sociologist, exploring the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood, shares the joy of watching her own child develop their own agency to grow happily and healthy toward their own gender and expression.

• The Trans Generation

  How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution

  Travers, Ann,

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  As a transgender activist and as an advocate for trans kids, Travers is able to document from first-hand experience the difficulties of growing up trans and the challenges that parents can face. The book shows the incredible time, energy, and love…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Growing Up Trans

  in Our Own Words

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  What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Girlhood

  Letter to My Transgender Daughter

  Hays, Carolyn

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  A parent's love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is