It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity

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An elegant and gorgeously illustrated book about gender identity for young readers and their families! Theresa's proceeds from the sale of this book are going to support Gender Spectrum, which works to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for children and teens. It is associated with movements to deprive girls of safe spaces, especially single sex school toilets and changing rooms.

For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. She is a transgender girl; when she was little, everyone thought she was a boy, but when she was old enough to speak for herself, she let everyone know the truth. Giving kids and adults a hopeful model for discussing (and embracing) one another's gender is just one of the gifts offered by this valuable narrative. They also have friends like Alex – who is both a boy and a girl – and JJ, who doesn’t feel like either.There is a lot of information to digest but Thorn is reassuring, repetitive, and connects with the audience through your/you pronouns. If one page had said, "George identifies as a sunflower," this would have been consistent with the whole approach. An informative book, rather than a story, explaining the concept of gender in a way that is straightforward and easy for children to grasp. It introduces kids to concepts around gender identity, and here's the part where I was all, "God bless this book": See, when you were born, you couldn't tell people who you were or how you felt.

Theresa Thorn is the cohost of the parenting humor podcast One Bad Mother and the coauthor of You're Doing a Great Job!For instance, it displays adults standing about, hands on chin, looking puzzled, unable to decide what the sex of a new baby is, BECAUSE the baby is unable to tell them, so it says they make a guess. Okay, a little more - love the illustrations and love the simple explanations that will hopefully give people a better idea of language surrounding gender and gender identity. They are looking for recruits to their own disturbed and unhealthy belief system, and they are feeding into and often funded by an unethical, weakly regulated market for drugs and surgery worth enormous sums of money. I don't wear makeup, paint my nails, wear fashionable clothes, or own a closet full of shoes, but that does not diminish the degree to which I am a girl.