It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity

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This picture book belongs in every school and library: it is not just essential for those with gender nonconforming children in their lives, it is also a critical tool for discussing issues of gender identity and expression in a way that is empathetic, respectful, and affirming. Children are invited to examine their own gender identity as easily as they examine their favorite color or food. Even if you firmly believe that gender is an imaginary concept without real implications for life, you still have to explain to children what the words "boy" and "girl" have always meant, and why they are such strong identifiers that someone would find it important to reject their initial label. Perhaps the most insidious is the misleading appeal that we learn to be kind to people who are different, an appeal to our good nature that works to disarm our critical faculties; seeking out the truth and opposing a harmful ideology does not entail being unkind or intolerant to its victims. This book not only has a pretty color palette, but can help children to understand their peers that may differ from them-- especially at an age a person begins to form an identity.

Taking a concept that is often overwrought or misconstrued and simplifying it down to its core elements, this child-friendly look at the spectrum of gender covers a lot of ground without ever feeling overwhelming or confusing. Very simple, clear, and gentle, with adorable illustrations showing a variety of characters with different gender expressions.I don't wear makeup, paint my nails, wear fashionable clothes, or own a closet full of shoes, but that does not diminish the degree to which I am a girl.

This book introduces the concept of gender identity to children, explaining the typical terminology that children will encounter in today's society, but despite its good intentions, gentle approach, and message of acceptance, it's likely to confuse more kids than it consoles. It's not like hearing those words makes you trans, just like reading books with queer representation doesn't turn you gay (if only! That disregards millennia of what it has meant to be human, and suggests that gender is solely a construct of the mind and has nothing to do with bodily anatomy. Indeed, some see it as promoting forms of conversion therapy (which is formally the case in Iran of course).All in all, It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity is a wonderful children's book about the concept of gender identity told in a sweet and child friendly manner. Giving kids and adults a hopeful model for discussing (and embracing) one another's gender is just one of the gifts offered by this valuable narrative. What children feel may be a moot question, but how they articulate their feelings is in the language and categories adults teach them.

Grigni's illustrations feature gender-expansive individuals going to school, making art, and spending time with family – normalizing everything. I think this is a great book for those members of society who want to be sure their children grow up with every option open and available to them. And with a book that’s perfect for our first Pride Month review: It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity, written by Theresa Thorn and illustrated by Noah Grigni.An elegant and gorgeously illustrated book about gender identity for young readers and their families! It is of utmost importance we encourage children to find their place in the world-- this book has the power to change a child's life for the better.

but for those kids who feel isolated and unseen because something inside them doesn't quite fit it can open up an entirely new world. It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity is a children's picture book written by Theresa Thorn and illustrated by Noah Grigni, which introduces the concept of gender identity to young readers. I had a 4th grader that firmly believed that she was a cat, a few boys (2nd grade) who thought they were robots and all of them just trying to figure out who they are in the world, within themselves, and in relation to others. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series.

It undermines parental choice in caring for their children and their ability to refuse experimental and unsafe medical interventions. Bought this for my kids (4 and 8) and it really helped them understand gender dynamics and the importance of identity. This dangerously stupid and misleading book sets out to teach children to think and speak in confused terms about their feelings and it advocates the bizarre possibility that they [or their school friends] may actually be born into the wrong body, a mad, almost medieval proposal that any sane parent would not wish to be promoting to children as young as four. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.