Stephanie A. Brill

This is a well-written and informative book about transgendered children written for parents, educators and therapists. Containing practical advice on parenting issues, finding help in the mental health community, advocacy, and medical issues, this self-help book advises parents on how to accept their child emotionally and to support their child with others. As a child psychologist, I found this to be an excellent primer on the needs of transgendered kids. I particularly enjoyed the show more vignettes of trans children described throughout as it explained the authors' points clearly. The current medical options available, such as using horomones to delay the onset of puberty and then to use opposite sex gender horomones to develop the child into the desired gender (and avoiding development into the birth gender) was fascinating. I did not know that starting horomones pre-puberty could help the child avoid additional surgeries later on. Though occassionally repetitive on some of the points (as all self-help books tend to do) it contains good information for anyone who works with or has a transgendered child. show less

Transgender, parenting, children, transitioning