The Transgender Child

Fifteen years after its groundbreaking release, The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, is the most comprehensive, widely used resource for families seeking to better understand and support their nonbinary, gender expansive, or transgender child and teen. The first guidebook of its kind, now translated into multiple languages and utilized around the world, it remains the most trusted source for caregivers, teachers, child advocates, and medical and mental health professionals on this topic. As authors, Stephanie Brill, educator and the founder of Gender Spectrum, and licensed therapist Rachel Pepper, bring their own extensive experience to this thoroughly updated new edition, as well as incorporating new research, interviews with parents across the United States, and conversations with cutting edge professionals such as Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, Dr. Jen Hastings, and youth advocate Tony Ferraiolo.

This new edition, which covers the development of gender identity from birth through college, explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their nonbinary and transgender children in today's world. Chapter topics include how to develop more accepting parenting practices, better understand approaches to disclosure, how to make congruence decisions for a child or teen, and how to best navigate within the educational and medical systems your child and family will likely encounter. A legal chapter, vetted by the NCLR, one of the country's most trusted legal institutions, is also included. There is also greatly expanded content for parents of nonbinary identified children and teens. A valuable resource, this new edition will continue to be the go-to guidebook for anyone who cares about supporting and advocating for the safety and well-being of nonbinary and transgender youth everywhere.