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Books Suitable for Parents of Transgender Children

Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers Beam, Cris. Harcourt, 2007
After volunteer teaching transgender and queer teens in a “last hope” school in Los Angeles, Beam finds herself getting further involved with some of them, ultimately unofficially foster-parenting Christina.
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism—for Family, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals Brown, Mildred L.  San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1996, 2003
Diverse Sexuality and Schools: 
A Reference Handboo
Campos, David.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, ©2003
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence:  Making Choices:  Vol. 46 Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy Tine.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. 
Aimed at the professional community, this volume explores medical, psychological, and legal issues related to transgender and intersexed children and teens. 
Why Don't You Tell Them I'm a Boy? Raising a Gender- Nonconforming Child Dillon, Florence 
A mother's experience with raising a transgender (FtM) son. Available online at:
http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/whydontyoutellthem.pdf

Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families Kaesar, Gigi.  Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. 
Beautiful photographs of GLBT families. Perhaps the first book to feature a transgender parent. 
Our Place On Campus : Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Services and Programs in Higher Education Buena Vista Lesbian and Gay Parents Group, 1999
Trans-Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones Edited by Mary Boenke.  Imperial Beach, CA: Walter Trook Pub., 1999
   
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