Resources for Friends and Family of Nonbinary People

Understanding:

• So Your Child is Nonbinary: A Guide For Parents

• Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Identities (an article by Everyday Feminism)

• in-depth interview with a nonbinary person about their identity (article from Zenger’s Newsmagazine)

• Explaining Genderqueer to Those Who Are Not (an article by neutrois.me)

• the gender binary explained in 3 minutes

• "forcing kids to stick to gender roles can actually be harmful to their health" (article by Tara Culp-Ressler)

• Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (an HBO documentary on gender variance available on Youtube)

• There’s No Such Thing as a “Sex Change” (video from TheGuardian.com about how to talk about transgender people)

• Think Your Child Might be Transgender? (an article by GenderSpectrum.org)

• What It Feels Like to be Transgender (article by Sophia Gubb)

• 8 Signs and Symptoms of Indirect Dysphoria (summary by Transgender Teen Survival Guide, article by Zinnia Jones)

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Supporting:

• A Support Guide for Parents, Families and Friends of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming people (by PFLAG.org)

• find support groups for parents of transgender children and trans youth (USA)

• Trans*Forming Family (a blog by the mother of a genderqueer child)

• Transgender Parenting (articles from Egale Canada)

• TransYouth Family Allies

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