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Argues gender dysphoria is a cultural phenomenon rather than an actual condition needing medical treatment. The author offers advice to parents of girls and young women who come out as transgender--who she argues are in thrall to trans YouTube stars and gender-affirming educators and therapists pushing life-changing interventions that are medically unnecessary and can cause permanent infertility--and suggests ways they can protect their children from...
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English
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"In this candid and thoughtful memoir, Shenher shares the story of his gender journey, from childhood gender dysphoria to teenage sexual experimentation to early-adult denial of his identity--and finally the acceptance that he is trans, culminating in gender reassignment surgery in his fifties. Along the way, he details his childhood in booming Calgary, his struggles with alcohol, and his eventual move to Vancouver, where he became the first detective...
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English
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"An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life--both virtual and IRL--as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is swept into a fairy tale romance that pushes...
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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English
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"This illustrated nonfiction anthology is a collection of stories, essays, poetry and art by transgender youth."--
What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Written by trans youth from 11 to 18, this collection illustrates the trans experience through stories, essays, art and poetry. They tell of the challenges, big and small, of being a young trans person. It is also a toolkit for what understanding, acceptance, and support for the trans...
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English
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"There's a long-running joke that, after coming out as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex person, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. This is that instruction manual. You're welcome. Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings--named one of "The 25 most influential teens" of the year by Time--shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
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Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"Just a few years ago, Schuyler Bailar rose to national and international prominence when he became the first openly transgender athlete to compete on an NCAA Division 1 team in any sport. A top high school prospect, Schuyler had been recruited by Harvard for the women's team, but after taking a gap year to address mental health and ultimately to transition, Schuyler swam instead for Harvard's men's team. Since then, Schuyler has become a go to expert...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Bruce Jenner, the celebrated Olympic icon and later the patriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, seemed to be living a dream life of success, fame, and prosperity. But the all-American image and million-dollar smile belied a lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria, and it wasn't until the sensational Diane Sawyer interview that the public mask of Bruce Jenner was finally retired, and through the memorable Vanity Fair piece by Buzz...
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Lights up on little Grace Lavery: reformed druggie, unreformed pantie-dropper, and 100% all-natural, synthetically-cultivated female hormone monster. From the moment Grace solves what she affectionately calls her "penis problem" in the parking lot of an abandoned Japanese steakhouse (were the turkeys milling about the handicapped spaces following her?), she begins receiving accusatory letters from an anonymous jabroni, who seems to be a few spices...
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
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247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
For anyone eager to understand their child's gender experience, or to learn how best to accept, support and protect them, this book will provide knowledge, reassurance and the confidence to do so.
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 attitudes,...
13) What's the T?
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English
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"Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or nonbinary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for teens"--
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"A captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country. Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out--not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She'd known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but...
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English
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"Authored by a seasoned diversity educator, Trans Children in Today's Schools provides a pragmatic and thorough approach to creating inclusive, safe, and flexible environments for gender-diverse young people. The primary audience for this text is parents and K-12 educators, as well as the extended support network in a child's life. This book goes well beyond the what and why of gender diversity and answers the questions of how - how do we create inclusive...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jodie Patterson is the mother of five children, including her ten-year-old transgender son Penelope, the catalyst for the author's reexamination of identity within her own dynamic household--and the wider world. This inspiring and highly personal debut memoir goes on to examine Jodie's extended families' African American experiences with racism and civil rights, and her own coming of age in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, and later on as a wife,...
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Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
Description
"As a young femme growing up in Manila in the 1990s, Geena Rocero endured shouts of bakla, bakla!, a Filipino taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the little universe of her eskinita. Eventually she found her place in trans pageants, events as widely attended and culturally significant as a national sport, going to high school by day and competing by night. When her competitors denigrated her with the nickname "horse barbie," due to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!--and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself. ANSWER: Who Is Amy Schneider? In eighth grade, Amy was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates. Decades later, this trailblazer finally got her chance. Not only did she walk away with $1.3 million while captivating the world with her impressive forty-game...
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