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The gender creative child : pathways for nurturing and supporting children who live outside gender boxes /

By: Ehrensaft, Diane [author.].
Publisher: New York : The Experiment, 2016Description: xvi, 285 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781615193066; 9781615193066:; 1615193065.Subject(s): Transgender children | Transgender youth | Gender identity -- Psychological aspects | Child rearing | Parents of transgender childrenDDC classification: 306.768083 EHR
Contents:
Foreword / by Norman Spack, MD -- Who is the gender creative child? -- What's your gender? : from boxes to spectrums to webs to gender infinity -- The gender spread : apples, oranges, and fruit salad -- When it's gender and something else or something else -- It takes a gender creative parent to negotiate the gender maze -- If gender is expansive, wherefore a shrink? -- Do we want a doctor in the house? -- Into the streets/onto the screens -- What's left to learn?
Summary: This volume will guide parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical and legal landscape of gender and identity. Dr Ehrensaft explains the interconnected effects of biology, nurture and culture to explore why gender can be fluid, rather than binary. As an advocate for the gender affirmative model and with the expertise she has gained over 3 decades of pioneering work with children and families, she encourages caregivers to listen to each child, learn their particular needs and support their quest for a true gender self.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

Foreword / by Norman Spack, MD -- Who is the gender creative child? -- What's your gender? : from boxes to spectrums to webs to gender infinity -- The gender spread : apples, oranges, and fruit salad -- When it's gender and something else or something else -- It takes a gender creative parent to negotiate the gender maze -- If gender is expansive, wherefore a shrink? -- Do we want a doctor in the house? -- Into the streets/onto the screens -- What's left to learn?

This volume will guide parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical and legal landscape of gender and identity. Dr Ehrensaft explains the interconnected effects of biology, nurture and culture to explore why gender can be fluid, rather than binary. As an advocate for the gender affirmative model and with the expertise she has gained over 3 decades of pioneering work with children and families, she encourages caregivers to listen to each child, learn their particular needs and support their quest for a true gender self.

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