Raising Them by Kyl Myers
"'What did you have? A boy or a girl?' Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl & Brent ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered. An illuminating portrait of a family's choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression. Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the limitless possibilities of being yourself." -- Description provided by publisher.
Call Number: LC 649.1 MYERS KYL
ISBN: 9781542003674
Publication Date: 2020-09-08