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Now What?: A Handbook for Families with Transgender Children
Are you looking for answers of how to respond to your transgender child? Or wondering how to deal with the callous remarks of others? As your child continues to assert their gender nonconforming identity, do you find yourself constantly asking: Now What? Finally, here is a book that presents a comprehensive approach to the concerns and challenges facing families with gender nonconforming children.
With keen sensitivity to the confusion, anxiety, fear, frustration and guilt that some parents feel, Dr. Butt presents a road map of strategies and tools to help them navigate the complex issues confronting them. His practical approach and wisdom provides guidance, resources, and comfort to help families with transgender children of all ages—ranging from the pre-school to adolescent to adult children who transition later in life—understand and support their gender-nonconforming loved ones.
With keen sensitivity to the confusion, anxiety, fear, frustration and guilt that some parents feel, Dr. Butt presents a road map of strategies and tools to help them navigate the complex issues confronting them. His practical approach and wisdom provides guidance, resources, and comfort to help families with transgender children of all ages—ranging from the pre-school to adolescent to adult children who transition later in life—understand and support their gender-nonconforming loved ones.
206 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 27, 2013
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July 27, 2017
As someone who works w/ parents of trans students in college, I found this book to be a helpful tool for parents who are grappling with their kids' nonnormative gender expression. The book is a guide exploring a variety of issues, unknowns and conflicts that tend to come up in families with transgender children. Numerous examples of constructive dialogue between parents and kids provide great models of effective communication and interpersonal dynamics to address thorny issues and resolve conflicts that tend to arise.
August 4, 2015
This is a well written book. I really like how inclusive it is, in more ways than one.
It doesn't matter if your child is FTM or MTF, each gets separate information. But this book doesn't concentrate on the things your child could do (hormones for example get a lot of information), it focusses on the parents. On the thoughts they may have, feelings of guilt, how to deal with coming out to your family and friends, how to talk to their (adult) child. There are a lot of little interviews done with parents of trans* children, so you know, you are not alone with your feelings and problems.
The e copy I got, wasn't finished yet (a lot of repeating sentences for example) but it seemed well researched without being too science-y.
I was provided by Transgress Press with a free ARC in exchange for a honest review. Thank you.
It doesn't matter if your child is FTM or MTF, each gets separate information. But this book doesn't concentrate on the things your child could do (hormones for example get a lot of information), it focusses on the parents. On the thoughts they may have, feelings of guilt, how to deal with coming out to your family and friends, how to talk to their (adult) child. There are a lot of little interviews done with parents of trans* children, so you know, you are not alone with your feelings and problems.
The e copy I got, wasn't finished yet (a lot of repeating sentences for example) but it seemed well researched without being too science-y.
I was provided by Transgress Press with a free ARC in exchange for a honest review. Thank you.
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