Research Catalog

Title

The transgender child / Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper.

Author

Brill, Stephanie A.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Cleiss Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Pepper, Rachel

Description

xvii, 252 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

What do you do when your son insists on wearing a dress to school? Or when your toddler daughter's first sentence is that she's a boy? Offering an extensive understanding of gender-variant and transgender youth, The Transgender Child answers these questions and more. Covering developmental, legal, medical, and school issues, The Transgender Child is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face raising children who step outside of the pink or blue box.

Subject

• Gender nonconformity
• Transgender children
• Transgender youth
• Gender identity
• Transgender people
• Transsexualism
• Gender Identity
• Child
• Adolescent

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Is my child transgender? -- Family acceptance : from crisis to empowerment -- Developmental stages and the transgender child -- Start where you are : moving from damaging to effective parenting practices -- Transition decisions : when should I let my child live as their preferred gender? -- Disclosure : whom to tell, how, why, and when -- The educational system and your family -- Medical issues for transgender children -- Legal issues to consider.

ISBN

• 9781573443180 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1573443182 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008016481

OCLC

227570066

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library