Wren: “A body I can embody“
The artist speaks with Gender Defiant about birds, top surgery, bodybuilding, and parenting with love
Coming Out
The Doctor is SO In
JJ’s gender care in Mexico is a revelation, thanks to community. I wish I had known how important community was from the start
Innocence: Sliced to Shreds
The day JJ told me their new name and they/them pronouns, I lost my girlhood self. That’s not a bad thing
She for All Time
How do I carry my trans daughter into to the past?
The Limits of my Queerness
I knew binary gender was a myth when I was 15. You’d think l would understand my young child’s transness. But I have so much to learn
My Kind of Gender Reveal Party
Why this cis mom changed her pronouns
Coming Out, Like a Flower
Don’t we have better things to do than tell folks they have to be someone or something they aren’t?
In a Shell
When the egg breaks there is no going back; there is your life before and your life after. It’s the coming-out metaphor—but parents live it, too
Alone with My Child’s Childhood
When my trans teen said “don’t send me photos,” it felt like she ripped up our shared past
Guest Writer Benjamin Erwin: “My Daughter is a Girl Because She Knows She is a Girl”
Right now, politicians are screaming a lie that transness is abnormal. But eventually, we—parents, teachers, neighbors, lawmakers—will trust our children
Guest writer J Brooke: “Denny and Me”
You often hear that queer people have chosen family. But sometimes, your queer family includes the one you were born into