{"id":1041,"date":"2012-09-01T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2013-03-01T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T00:13:59","slug":"transitions-of-the-heart-stories-of-love-struggle-and-acceptance-by-mothers-of-transgender-and-gender-variant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/transitions-of-the-heart-stories-of-love-struggle-and-acceptance-by-mothers-of-transgender-and-gender-variant-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1042\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"Picture18\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture18.png\" width=\"182\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/757477356\">Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children.\u00a0Ed. by Rachel Pepper. Cleis Press, 2012. Paperback. 204p. $16.95. 978-1-57344-788-1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Pepper is well-known as the co-author of The Transgender Child.\u00a0 Pepper says she got the idea for this short book from <em>Different Daughters: a Book by Mothers of Lesbian<\/em>s.\u00a0 <em>Transitions of the Heart<\/em> presents 32 mothers who have experienced learning that their child is transgender.<\/p>\n<p>In their own words in three to ten pages the mothers tell what they did and how they felt.<\/p>\n<p>There is great diversity in their stories, but always an insistence that loving one&#8217;s child comes first.\u00a0 The mothers include traditional and free spirited, straight and gay, young and old.\u00a0 Some learned from their toddler that the child&#8217;s identity did not match the body and some learned from adult children that the pressure of conforming to gender expectations had become intolerable.\u00a0 Not all of these children expect to transition and some, indeed, are still pre-adolescent.\u00a0 There is a balance between children assigned to the male gender and those assigned female.\u00a0 And there are twins and other siblings in the families.<\/p>\n<p>The range in ages of both mother and child provides an overview of how our culture has changed in its awareness of transgender people and how professional treatment has changed as well.\u00a0 As a result, the audience for this book is potentially broader than just mothers.\u00a0 Anyone who wants to know more about what transgender is all about could use this book as a starting place.\u00a0 I think that people who are transgender will particularly find it helpful in coming out to parents and family.<\/p>\n<p>Any library that serves families should find it helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>Carolyn Caywood<\/strong>, Retired<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Beach Public Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children.\u00a0Ed. by Rachel Pepper. Cleis Press, 2012. Paperback. 204p. $16.95. 978-1-57344-788-1. Rachel Pepper is well-known as the co-author of The Transgender Child.\u00a0 Pepper says she got the idea for this short book from Different Daughters: a Book by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}