Full Description
Gender is everywhere. Politicians argue over it, educational systems struggle to define it, and our friends, neighbors, and children explore it. More than ever before, young people are questioning their gender identities and redefining the role of gender in their lives. How should our society—and we as individuals (parents, teachers, friends)—respond?
In Gender Explained, Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, and Michelle Jurkiewicz, PsyD, separate medical fact from fear-mongering falsehoods and answer these questions: What should parents do when their child starts experiencing gender dysphoria? Which sports teams should transgender youth play on? How should schools teach young people about gender? And most important: What is gender-affirming care, and when should an individual have access to it?
With clear, expert guidance, this book is a safeguard against political vitriol, and it offers urgent protection for those among us who are transgender and/or nonbinary. Far more than an introduction to gender creativity, it is an invitation to develop compassion for everyone along the gender continuum.
Contents
Foreword by Stephen M. Rosenthal, MD
Glossary
Chapter 1: Much Ado About Gender
Chapter 2: Why Is Gender Such a Thing for So Many Kids?
Chapter 3: Why Does Gender Make People So Anxious?
Chapter 4: What About This Gender-Affirmative Model?
Chapter 5: Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?
Chapter 6: Teach Your Parents Well: The Children Speak
Chapter 7: What's a Parent to Do?
Chapter 8: Gender Conundrums: Sports, Education, 139 and Medicine
Chapter 9: Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 10: Gender Evolution to Revolution: What's Next?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
