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Raising Them

Written by: Kyl Myers, Joey Soloway - introduction
Narrated by: Kyl Myers
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"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. Until then...

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 and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered.

In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating 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.
©2020 Kyl Myers (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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A must read

This book has opened my eyes as a parent and educator of young children. I hadn’t realized until this book how strong gender stereotypes were and how much I was unconsciously feeding into them. I really enjoyed the story of gender creative parenting and especially loved hearing the author reading the book. It was heartwarming, uplifting, educational and eye opening.

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