Rachel Pepper

Stephanie Brill

What do you do when your son insists on wearing a dress to school? Or when your toddler daughter's first sentence is that she's a boy? Offering an extensive understanding of gender-variant and transgender youth, The Transgender Child answers these questions and more. Covering developmental, legal, medical, and school issues, The Transgender Child is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face raising children who step outside of the pink or blue box.

A Handbook for Families and Professionals

The Transgender Child

Covering everything readers need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood, this is a fully updated and revised edition. From choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers, this title covers the often daunting gamut of information for lesbian motherhood. Rachel Pepper's lively and easy-to-read guide is the first to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything from sex in the sixth month to negotiating family roles. This second edition features new material throughout.

How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception Through Birth

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians

Wat doe je als je zoon en jurk aan wil voor school? Of als de eerste volzin die je dochter uitspreekt ‘ik ben een jongen’ is? The Transgender Child biedt antwoorden op deze en andere vragen door middel van een uitgebreide kijk op de levens van een aantal gender-variante en transgender jongeren. Zowel ontwikkelings- en onderwijsaspecten alsook juridische en medische struikelblokken komen aan bod met als doel een zo algemeen mogelijk beeld weer te geven van de uitdagingen waarmee ouders te maken kunnen krijgen.

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians covers everything you need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood: from choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers on the dotted lines. Rachel Pepper's lively, easy-to-read guide is the first place to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything from sex in the sixth month to negotiating family roles. Why a second edition? When the acclaimed first edition appeared, the author's daughter was only a few months old. This new edition takes into account the parenting know-how Pepper has developed over the intervening six years, as well as the evolving legal status of lesbian parents, and the increasing importance of the Internet for information on fertility, sperm banks, and donors. The resource section is greatly expanded, as are the sections on each trimester of pregnancy, on childbirth, and on life with a newborn. And Pepper provides more insight into preconception planning for both single lesbians and couples. An indispensable resource, The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians is now bigger and better.

Ever since its initial publication in 2008, The Transgender Child has been lauded as the most trusted source of information for families wanting to understand and affirm their transgender, gender-expansive, or nonbinary child. Utilized around the world and translated into multiple languages, The Transgender Child has won accolades from medical and mental health professionals, teachers, and, most especially, from parents. Authors Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper have now thoroughly revised and updated their ground-breaking classic with expanded coverage of gender development, affirming parenting practices, mental health and wellness, medical decision making, legal advocacy, and how best to ensure school success, from preschool through the high school years. Drawing upon their extensive joint expertise as pioneers in the field of gender affirming care, and enriched with the wisdom of parents who’ve already walked this path, as well as the voices of multiple professional experts, Brill and Pepper once again provide a compassionate and educational guide for anyone who cares about, or works with, a child who falls outside expected gender norms.

A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Nonbinary Children

The Transgender Child: Revised & Updated Edition

A collection of stories by mothers of transgender and gender variant children.

Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children

Transitions of the Heart

Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child’s gender transition. Often “transitioning” socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the experience, mothers hold the key to familial and societal understanding of gender difference. Sharing stories of love, struggle, and acceptance, this collection of mother's voices, representing a diversity of backgrounds and sexual orientations, affirms the experience of those who have raised and are currently raising transgender and gender variant children between the ages of 5-50. Edited by Rachel Pepper, a gender specialist and co-author of the acclaimed book The Transgender Child, Transitions of the Heart will prove an invaluable resource for parents coming to terms with a child’s gender variance or transition.

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