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LEADS stands for:; Look & Listen; Explore points of view; Act; Did it work?; Seek Help; *The purpose of the WITS LEADerS program to help teachers of intermediate elementary students to:; - learn problem-solving skills needed to handle interpersonal conflicts and to; - support the school-wide applic…
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…
A comprehensive workbook to navigate gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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 |
This book explores the difficult issue of bullying among children. It helps kids accept the normal fears and worries that accompany bullying, and suggests ways to resolve this upsetting experience.
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Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides it is just too painful to ever love again. When he meets some big tough Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily Bipley meets …
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From fifth grade through high school, Blanco was teased, shunned, and, at times, physically assaulted by her classmates because she was different. This memoir provides an unflinching look at what it means to be the outcast, how even the most loving parents can get it all wrong, why schools are ofte…
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Written by a clinical psychologist, this resource broaches the sensitive and often misunderstood issues that transgender children face. It follows the story of Kathy, a young girl who says she is a boy but no one takes her seriously.
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Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around…
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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.
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Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows... Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary: "You're a BOY!"; Mother and Father tell Bailey. "Yo…
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Bullying in schools has garnered significant attention recently, but little has been said about the bullying of homosexuals and transexual students in Canadian high schools. This book fills that gap by exploring the experiences of youth who identify or are identified as "queer." Based on interviews…
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My birth name is Elizabeth, but I'm a guy. Gabe. My parents think I've gone crazy and the rest of the world is happy to agree with them, but I know I'm right. I've been a boy my whole life.; When you think about it, I'm like a record. Elizabeth is my A side, the song everybody knows, and Gabe is my…
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In this picture-book biography, she introduces stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, whose astonishing secret was revealed after death: Hold your horses / Huge surprise . . . / He's a woman in disguise. Rhyming couplets follow Parkhurst from orphaned stableboy to Old West legend, known for coarse be…
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Dans cet essai nécessaire, la psychoéducatrice Stéphanie Deslauriers rappelle la définition même du concept d'intimidation, qui se perd au fil des nombreuses interventions sur le sujet. Elle apporte du même souffle un point de vue rafraîchissant sur le problème, en confrontant les idées reçues et e…
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A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional and social issues of trans children.
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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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Written for children and parents, this anti-bullying program clarifies what is and is not bullying, and helps you develop an anti-bullying plan.; Includes a list of resources for children and teens that may experience bullying.
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