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Parenting & nonbinary children

Below are the best resources we could find on Parenting and nonbinary children.

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I Let My Child Create Their Own Gender Identity. The Experience Has Been a Gift for Us Both

We weren’t going to assign a gender or disclose their reproductive anatomy to people who didn’t need to know, and we were going to use the gender-neutral personal pronouns they, them and their.

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Mom, I’m Not a Girl: Raising a Transgender Child | Cosmopolitan

In Cosmo’s first documentary, “Mom, I’m Not a Girl,” a mother speaks about raising her son Penelope, who is anatomically female.

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Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child provides parents of a LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning) child with a framework for helping their LGBTQ child navigate a world that isn’t always welcoming. Tips from a mother with experience.

Telaina Eriksen

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Children and Gender Identity: Supporting Your Child

Understand the importance of talking with your child about gender identity and expression — and how to get the conversation started.

Mayo Clinic Staff

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Parenting a Gender Non-Conforming Child | Michele Yulo | TEDxUtica

I believe there are preconceived notions of how raising a child will go in terms of gender. We prepare ourselves in completely different ways when we learn we are having a boy or a girl and this is reinforced and policed from the second a child is born and beyond.

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Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children

A groundbreaking guide to caring for children who live outside binary gender boxes We are only beginning to understand gender.

Diane Ehrensaft

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An Age-by-Age Guide to Talking to Your Kids About Gender

No matter your kid's age, it's not too early (or late!) to talk to them about gender. Here's how to start the discussion, and keep it going as they grow.

S. Bear Bergman

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What Gender Identity Means to Today’s Teens

What does your teen think about gender?

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Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes

A guide that helps parents focus on their children’s unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers.

Christia Spears Brown

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Follow Their Lead, and Other Ways Parents Can Support Their Non-binary Children

While Deysach and her partner feel they’ve been supported in parenting a non-binary child, that isn’t the case for everyone. That lack of support can have serious effects on a child’s well-being, particularly if the shortfall is coming from school.

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