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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
There is a generational divide in our understandings of gender. This comprehensive guidebook helps to bridge that divide by exploring the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid or otherwise gender-expansive. Co…
There is a generational divide in our understandings of gender. This comprehensive guidebook helps to bridge that divide by exploring the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid or otherwise gender-expansive. Co…
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, December 12, 2023 |
Providing advice on how professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults can tailor their practice to best serve their clients and how parents can support their trans autistic children, this book increases awareness of the large overlap between trans identities and autism.; By including c…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 19, 2024 |
A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional and social issues of trans children.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Why is this book important? We know that transgender kids and their families need specialized information. Alarmingly, the suicide attempt rate among trans youth is close to half! This book is intended to give gender non-conforming kids some of the information they need to grow to be happy, product…
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In this guide, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in gender-nonconforming youth offers real tools to help your child thrive in all aspects of life. You and your child will discover a more expansive way of understanding gender; gain insight into gender diverse thoughts, feelings, and …
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Ellie and Casey are back to talk about gender!; In this gloriously illustrated guide to gender identity, you'll meet demiboys and demigirls, agender people, greygender people, those who are AFAB and AMAB, and many more as Ellie and Casey guide curious children through the world of people who don't …
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 |
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You is an all-inclusive, uncensored guide for teens who are transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or gender-fluid.; TRANS+ answers all your questions, easy and hard, about gender and covers mental health, physical health and reproduction, transitioning,…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, February 15, 2024 |
A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys!; In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and JR Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential topics lik…
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This is a comprehensive resource for parents, teachers, counselors, health-care professionals, clergy and others concerned about the children in their lives. Suggests ways of explaining death to children and teens from a number of perspectives eg. philosophical, cultural and religious.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl's room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing. After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of life that didn't fit anymore, and he settle…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
If you're transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book combines coloring pages celebrating trans identity, beauty and relationships, with practical advice, journaling prom…
| copy 1 Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 |
This vibrant and beautifully illustrated book educates children about sex, gender, and relationships in a way that is inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Covering puberty, hormones, pregnancy, consent, sex, babies, relationships, and families, it uses gender-neutral language…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
L'uniforme, Oui ! La jupe, Non ! Liberté, égalité, pantalon !Liv (ne l'appelez pas Olivia, il déteste ça) sait depuis toujours qu'il est un garçon et non une fille, mais le règlement très strict de son collège en matière d'uniforme lui interdit de porter un pantalon. Il lui faudra donc porter des j…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkw…
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The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkw…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkw…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
A guide for parents, clinicians, and educators on both the philosophical dilemmas and the practical, daily concerns of working with children who do not fit a "typical" gender mold.; Table of Contents:; Chapter 1 Relearning gender; Chapter 2 The family's path is covered with roses and thorns; Chapte…
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
In Beyond Magenta, six teens tell what it is like for them to be members of the transgender community. Portraits and family photographs grace the pages, adding immediacy to the emotional and physical journeys of these unwaveringly honest young adults.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available | ||
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Meet Hope, a child who despite being born in a boy's body has always felt like a girl inside. Follow a journey of self awareness as Hope expresses the need to live authentically for the first time. Hope's parents provide a supportive environment where Hope enjoys self expression without worry or ju…
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
