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 Amber Leventry for ScaryMommy. This article answers questions like What are puberty blockers? Who needs them? Are puberty blockers safe? What are the risks vs. rewards?
A comprehensive website providing free education and resource HUBs for teens, caregivers/parents, and educators packed with modern, gender-inclusive, and mindful health and wellness information. Topics on the HUB include: Puberty, Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation, Relationships, Digital Life, Sexual Health, and more.
QueerDoc provides queer and gender-focused medical care online for youth and adults. Services include hormone therapy, anti-androgens, SERMS, puberty blockers, PrEP, STD/STI screening, contraception, gender care navigation, and medical/legal consults for document changes. Currently serving residents of Alaska, California, Florida, Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington.
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.
Fun, animated, inclusive and sex positive short videos to help tweens and teens learn about sexual orientation, coming out, and LGBQ+ relationships