Parenting A Transgender Child
This broadcast is a must watch for all parents -- all humans really -- who want to understand how to be better. How to tune in and listen to other human beings. How to understand things beyond your lane of awareness and assumptions. How to open your heart and love people for who they are. I’m incredibly grateful to Lauren Leahy for her generosity and candor in sharing her family's story. Lauren I talk about her son Alex’s journey, school advocacy, how people can best be allies, favorite resources, and more. Links to things we discussed are below the broadcast window.
Stuff I mentioned during the livestream
- Raising Ryland: The story of a young transgender child (CNN)
- Massachusetts Department of Education Safe Schools Program for LGBTQ Youth
- Guidance for Massachusetts Public Schools: Creating A Safe and Supportive School Environment
- Know Your Rights: Students & LGBTQ Rights At School (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- GenderSpectrum.org
- Balls by Chris Edwards
- Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
- The Transgender Child by Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper
- The Transgender Teen by Stephanie Brill & Lisa Kenney
- Raising Ryland by Hillary Whittington
- I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings (for younger kids)
- George by Alex Gino (for middle readers)
- Lily and Duncan by Donna Gephart (for young readers)
- A letter to my son on his 5th birthday by Mimi Lemay
- Jacob's Journey: Life as a Transgender 5-year-old (NBC New)
- Camp Aranu'tiq: an amazing summer camp for transgender and gender-variant youth
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