Parenting Non-Binary - Balancing Religious Upbringing, Feminist Values, Military Family & Being an LGBT Ally
Episode 57 - September 16th, 2021
*Scroll down for Trans and Non-Binary resources & related episodes.
Parenting is hard work.
It’s not just the endless to do lists. It’s the exhausting confrontation of who we are, how we grew up, and what controls our decision making. It’s also the concerns we have about the world and how we prepare our kids to be a part of it.
Callie knows these challenges very well. She is the mom of a non-binary child but her story does not start there.
In this episode, we talk about the evangelical culture she grew up in, how she confronted her upbringing by embracing feminism, how feminism fits into her life as a military spouse and how she channels her mix of midwestern values and feminism into parenting a non-binary child.
Vocabulary for this episode
- Gender Expression: how a person publicly expresses or presents their gender. This can include behaviour and outward appearance such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice.
- Gender Identity: each person’s internal and individual experience of gender. It is a person’s sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.
- Trans (also Transgender): a person whose gender differs from the one that was assigned at birth
- Non-Binary: a person whose gender does not subscribe to society’s idea of the traditional man/woman “gender binary”
If you would like to hear about these terms and other vocabulary around gender in more detail, please listen to Episode 19 with Seth Day. For an extension of that conversation, listen to Episode 19 part 2 – Things you Should NEVER ask a Trans Person, Episode 20 One Trans Mans Story and Episode 21 How to Talk to Kids about Gender.
Books & Resources from Callie
Kids Books
- Jacob’s New Dress (Ian and Sarah Hoffman)
- I Love My Purse (Belle DeMont)
- Red: A Crayon’s Story (Michael Hall)
- It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity (Theresa Thorn)
- Who Are You? A Kid’s Guide To Gender Identity (Brook Pessin-Whedbee)
- The Gender Wheel (Maya Christina Gonzalez)
- From The Stars In The Sky, To The Fish In The Sea (Kai Cheng Thom)
- Mary Wears What She Wants (Keith Negley)
- When Aiden Became A Brother (Kyle Lukoff)
Instagram
- Jeffrey Marsh @thejeffreymarsh
- Jamie Bruesehoff @jamiebruesehoff
- Max Aravis Tang @maxgetscurious
- Dr Kyl Myers @drkylmyers
- Queer Kid Stuff @queerkidstuff
Books for Adults
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