{"id":116,"date":"2009-11-12T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:22:58","slug":"the_transgender_child_a_handbook_for_fam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the_transgender_child_a_handbook_for_fam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/227570066\">Brill, Stephanie and Rachel Pepper. <em>The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals.<\/em> San Francisco, CA: Cleiss Press, 2008. Soft cover. 252p. $16.95. ISBN: 9781573443180.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bloglink\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"the transgender child\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+1155202775837_140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"216\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper&#8217;s guide for parents of transgender and gender-variant children seeks to fill a gap in both parenting and transgender literature. Building on existing research, as well as the authors&#8217; experiences working with families, the book provides an overview of issues ranging from medical care to negotiating what a child will wear to a formal family event. Brill and Pepper offer a mix of practical suggestions and philosophy to guide and reassure parents at all points in their understanding and acceptance of their child.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with clear discussion of relevant terminology, the book speaks to a broad range of issues. The emphasis is always on love: parents must navigate a course that will allow them to support and unconditionally love their child. The book then offers concrete solutions to common problems (for example, recommending that parents role-play answering questions from strangers). To address specific challenges, the authors include sample letters for parents to revise, such as a physician&#8217;s recognition of the child&#8217;s gender status, which the child can carry to show to authorities. Quotations from parents, children, and community members provide real-life perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters on educational and medical issues also serve as a guide for professionals working with transgendered or gender-variant children. Rather than recommending a single path, the authors acknowledge the different challenges faced by transgender children and gender-variant children. The authors recognize that all families must start where they&#8217;re at, but offer practical tools for advocating and parenting.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Transgender Child<\/em> is a must for all public libraries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Kelly McElroy<\/strong><br \/>\nSchool of Library Archival and Information Studies<br \/>\nUniversity of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brill, Stephanie and Rachel Pepper. The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals. San Francisco, CA: Cleiss Press, 2008. Soft cover. 252p. $16.95. ISBN: 9781573443180. Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper&#8217;s guide for parents of transgender and gender-variant children seeks to fill a gap in both parenting and transgender literature. Building on existing research, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"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\/116"}],"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\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}