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by Chris Thompkins. This book offers specific actions parents, family members, and caregivers can take to help navigate conversations, address heteronormativity, and challenge societal beliefs, It serves as a guide to help normalize being LGBTQ from a young age. Creating allies and a world where closets don’t exist happens one child at a time.

by Linda Gromko MD. This book explains the basics of gender identity, sexual orientation, puberty, puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and gender affirming surgeries. Also included is practical information on getting through every day in the best way possible—from coming out to parents, to school issues, to coping with depression, to love and sex.

by Sophie Beer. An inclusive board book celebrating the one thing that makes a every family a family- love! This book shows representation of many different families, including same gender parents, single parent, and multiracial.

by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan. How do you find the answers to all the questions you have about yourself, about your identity, and about your body? This book provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, well-researched, inclusive graphic novel guide to everything you need to know. Covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, […]

by M.L. Webb. From A is for Ally to F is for Family to Q is for Queer, this book offers bright illustrations and lively, inclusive poems that delight in the beauty of embracing one’s truest self. A glossary in the back offers opportunity for further discussion of terms and identities. This book is perfect for showing kids and […]

by Gina Loveless. An inclusive puberty guide filled with countless facts and humor to put this stage in perspective. This book is packed with straighforward illustrations, easy-to-understand scientific information, interesting studies, and tips from experts, covering everything from breast development and gender identity to acne, media literacy, and mental health.

by Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. This book offers the tools to teach young people about sexuality and sexual health from a sex positive, human rights perspective. Covering topics that range from anatomy to consent and healthy relationships, it approaches sexuality education across all gender identities and sexual orientations with activities that help […]

by C. Riley Snorton. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable.

by Mark Loewen. Two dads, two moms, one dad, one mom… These coloring pages show what all loving families have in common. Families love having fun together! This is one of the first children’s coloring books featuring kids with loving parents who are gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. A great way for kids to learn about all kinds […]

by Melinda Mangin. Transgender Students in Elementary School offers guidance to educators who want to provide a supportive school culture and climate for transgender and gender-expansive students. The book provides recommendations for creating learning environments that facilitate all students’ sense of belonging and reduce the constraints inherent in binary gender norms.

by Christian A’Xavier Lovehall. “My Name is Troy” is a children’s book that tells the story of Troy, a young and proud Black Trans boy who is loved and protected by his family. Knowing the importance of representation, the author hopes to fill a void for young Black Trans boys, who are too often ignored […]

by Planned Parenthood. This book provides nonjudgmental (and fun!) answers meant to educate teens without the uncomfortable silence or weird eye contact often associated with “The Talk.” This book isn’t afraid to tackle the nitty-gritty questions, such as Does masturbating give you a disease?‚ and Is the pineapple thing true? that you may think twice […]