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

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There's a lot of different things to cover within the UKS2 All About Me topic, but Twinkl is here to guide you seamlessly through our 'Be Yourself' unit.

Before I sign off, if there’s one lesson I’d like to share from my experience, it’s this: You don’t need to have it together all the time. You don’t need to be fixed because you are beautifully flawed. We all are. Emotions are neither good or bad and in fact, most people actually appreciate and admire when we share them. Some of the more tender moments that I can remember in my life were when people told me how beautiful I was, not in spite of my feelings but because of them. She’s a transgender girl,” the book reads, over a drawing of a young girl running up the steps to her house. “That means when she was born, everyone thought she was a boy. Until she grew a little older – old enough to tell everyone that she’s actually a girl.” I don’t know who took this and ran with it and turned it into censorship, banning,” Sandefur said. “I never said a word other than book content.” It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity is a children's picture book written by Theresa Thorn and illustrated by Noah Grigni, which introduces the concept of gender identity to young readers. What children feel may be a moot question, but how they articulate their feelings is in the language and categories adults teach them. This dangerously stupid and misleading book sets out to teach children to think and speak in confused terms about their feelings and it advocates the bizarre possibility that they [or their school friends] may actually be born into the wrong body, a mad, almost medieval proposal that any sane parent would not wish to be promoting to children as young as four.aGender identity |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003756 |vJuvenile literature. |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001674

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iAuthor: |aWomen |2lcdgt |4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060358 iIllustrator: |aTransgender people |2lcdgt |4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ill |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060006

i128001756 |b1110011815954 |dmrljk |g- |m231204 |h5 |x1 |t2 |i1 |j300 |k191014 |n06-26-2023 14:34 |o- |a305.3 Tho i125637354 |b1090061393914 |dmpmjt |g- |m |h16 |x4 |t2 |i7 |j57 |k190617 |n07-31-2023 17:45 |o- |sj |a305.3 |rT496i I remember a time when writing "he or she" rather than the ubiquitous "he" felt radical. Now I have friends who use the pronoun "they" to refer to themselves, and others who used to be "he" and are now "she" or vice versa. The range of socially embraced gender identities, at least in parts of the world, has vastly expanded. In thinking about your own life: Are your relationships genuine? Do you feel confident? Do you feel secure? Are you relaxed? For a significant amount of people, the answer to all these questions is ‘no.” We may pretend because deep down we feel empty and lonely. We pretend because we don’t feel enough as we are. If even you don’t appreciate yourself, how can you expect others to appreciate you? When we pretend, our relationships become shallow and empty. There cannot be any sincere communication in relationships built around pretending. The pretender begins by conjuring up the desired feelings or style in an attempt to assuage insecurities. It is common to talk about how we sometimes manipulate others, but the person one most often manipulates oneself. The trap that the Pretender falls into is that they try too hard to control their experience. Feelings and even identities are forced, instead of letting things happen in their own way. Intimacy is lost.From the time we were young, we may have been taught that we are not enough as we are. People would not accept us the way we are. They wanted us to think, look and behave in different ways. It is fundamental human desire for connection and social relationships because we are, at our core, relational beings. Many of us chose to compromise, afraid that we would otherwise be left alone, isolated and helpless. Find peace in being alone. It is better to be alone and confident in who you are, than to be in the company of others by lying out of fear. Only once you have overridden the fear of being alone, will you be able to let go of the need for social approval. This will allow you to build genuine relationships.

i135145818 |b1100070044302 |dmvem |g- |m |h1 |x0 |t0 |i0 |j18 |k210120 |n02-10-2021 19:50 |o- |a305.3 |rTHO I have come across a fair few people making their way through life by pretending. Maybe it is easier to convince ourselves that we feel good about something or someone rather than admit that we do not. Contentment doesn’t require action so by convincing ourselves that we are happy even when we are not, we may be able to avoid making those difficult decisions. We don’t have to tell our partner that we aren’t in love with them anymore or that we aren’t happy in our relationship. We don’t have to swallow our pride and ask for help when we need it because, hey, everything is just fine! We can simply smile and keep pretending. Pretending everything is fine means not having to contend with all the fears and the potential of disapproval from loved ones if we leave it behind. Pretending is costly because we may be giving away our peace of mind and happiness. Don’t imitate. Everyone is different and so, to copy another’s way of life simply means to suppress who you really are. Create your own path and enjoy walking it.

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i125720774 |b1440002822963 |dbajnf |g- |m |h11 |x4 |t4 |i1 |j57 |k190627 |n08-22-2023 16:51 |o- |sJ |a306 |rTHO Other speakers also shared stories of the trauma they experienced as queer people in a conservative area of Louisiana. Meet Ruthie. 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. Her brother Xavier is a cisgender boy; when he was little, everyone thought he was a boy, and they were right! They also have friends like Alex – who is both a boy and a girl – and JJ, who doesn’t feel like either. Alex and JJ are non-binary, and just like there are lots of ways to be a boy or a girl, there are lots of ways to be non-binary as well! No matter what gender someone identifies as, the most important thing is that they are loved, supported, and free to be themselves – doesn’t it feel good to be yourself? aA picture book that introduces the concept of gender identity to the youngest reader from writer Theresa Thorn and illustrator Noah Grigni. Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between. This sweet, straightforward exploration of gender identity will give children a fuller understanding of themselves and others. With child-friendly language and vibrant art, It Feels Good to Be Yourself provides young readers and parents alike with the vocabulary to discuss this important topic with sensitivity. aGrigni, Noah, |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018049168 |eillustrator. |1http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61778547.