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The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes
4/5. A good book that was not the book I was looking for. This book does Gender 101 and 201 for parents and caregivers. I wanted more of a how to talk to your young child about his nebulously non-normative gender expression. I mean, I think I have a good guess what is going on for Cb, and he is getting better at applying words to it, but you know, I wanted a little extra help on ways I can scaffold him there so we don’t misread things and pigeonhole him any more than the world already tries to. This book was occasionally helpful to me, but it’s really more of a big and thorough overview of the topic, pitched at the interested but uninformed or skeptical. Worth it for those people, though speaking for myself, I found her dedication to finding cutesy names for everything to be annoying.
I will say, this book was written eight-ten years ago, and hoo boy. She gets into transphobic attitudes in public life, but man, it is like she is living in another country. Terrifying to think how fast the violent transphobia of today surfaced itself.
4/5. A good book that was not the book I was looking for. This book does Gender 101 and 201 for parents and caregivers. I wanted more of a how to talk to your young child about his nebulously non-normative gender expression. I mean, I think I have a good guess what is going on for Cb, and he is getting better at applying words to it, but you know, I wanted a little extra help on ways I can scaffold him there so we don’t misread things and pigeonhole him any more than the world already tries to. This book was occasionally helpful to me, but it’s really more of a big and thorough overview of the topic, pitched at the interested but uninformed or skeptical. Worth it for those people, though speaking for myself, I found her dedication to finding cutesy names for everything to be annoying.
I will say, this book was written eight-ten years ago, and hoo boy. She gets into transphobic attitudes in public life, but man, it is like she is living in another country. Terrifying to think how fast the violent transphobia of today surfaced itself.
