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

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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?

Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement.Noah Grigni’s colorful illustrations are beautiful, inclusive, and representative of the diversity in the queer community. This expansive, straightforward framing of gender emphasizes curiosity, joy, and positive self-expression .

Their art ranges from vibrant watercolor illustrations, to meticulous anatomical drawings, to promotional graphics for activist groups. Grigni's illustrations feature gender-expansive individuals going to school, making art, and spending time with family – normalizing everything. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. 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! Even if you firmly believe that gender is an imaginary concept without real implications for life, you still have to explain to children what the words "boy" and "girl" have always meant, and why they are such strong identifiers that someone would find it important to reject their initial label.

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. 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. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and It Feels Good to Be Yourself is her first book for children. That disregards millennia of what it has meant to be human, and suggests that gender is solely a construct of the mind and has nothing to do with bodily anatomy.

Theresa Thorn is the cohost of the parenting humor podcast One Bad Mother and the coauthor of You're Doing a Great Job! I loved the artwork, which is done by a non-binary illustrator (and the words are written by the parent of a trans child). These objections are sometimes associated with bigotry around alternative sexualities, but that is a distraction, because many gay and lesbian voices are no less outraged at this form of gender theory.In reality even advocates of this irrational “gender theory” concede that adults are right at least 99. Very simple, clear, and gentle, with adorable illustrations showing a variety of characters with different gender expressions. This book simultaneously manages to be concise and expansive, favoring an approach that recognizes the truly diverse forms gender can take ("more than could fit in one book") instead of attempting to pin down or define different gender identities too strictly.

It is associated with movements to deprive girls of safe spaces, especially single sex school toilets and changing rooms. Via fictionalized children, Thorn presents transgender, cisgendered, non-binary, gender-fluid, and gender identities that cannot be captured in words. 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. 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.Parents must lead their children, in love and wisdom, to be their best selves in their God-given biological gender. On the other hand, i believe that every person has the right to be who they really are and identify themselves that way without fear of harassment or exclusion. It's not like hearing those words makes you trans, just like reading books with queer representation doesn't turn you gay (if only! This book throws around gender terminology without grounding it in any meaning or context, and I can imagine a child reading this and thinking, "Oh, I'm going to be a boy today!