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RADICALLY LISTENING TO TRANSGENDER CHILDREN: THE COMIC!

An online comic book based on our book Radically Listening to Transgender Children. Plaintext version to come.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD GENDER EXPANSIVENESS

This info sheet includes a history of western gender models, our intersectional gender model, and research about gender-expansive children and the importance of creating inclusive learning environments.
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STAR of Supporting young children’s gender development

This one-page handout summarizes our “STAR” tool, which stands for: Stay in the present, Tune in, Act to interrupt bias, and Replant your understanding of gender (formerly “Reframe your worldview”).
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Classroom audit Tool

This tool offers a set of reflection questions and prompts about specific aspects of your program and practice for you to consider from a gender justice perspective. It is a way to identify areas where you might want to focus your attention, a structure for you to create a concrete plan towards change, and a jumping point for your lifelong learning about gender justice and other forms of justice in your program.
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Working with Families: Strategies

This two-page handout offers key points from chapter 7 of Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms: A Practical Guide, including key approaches to working with families and strategies for “inviting in” families who are reluctant to embrace gender diversity.
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Loaded Language: Changing How We Talk About Gender

Commonly used phrases that re-inscribe binary gender and alternative phrases that support gender diversity.
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Five Things adults can do when children display gender bias

A four-page guide to what gender bias looks like among young children, and what adults can do about it. Adapted from “Four things adults can do when they hear children saying hurtful words or prejudicial statements or behaving in exclusionary or fearful ways,” by Julie Olsen Edwards.
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Gender Inclusive and Gender Affirming Language

Commonly used phrases that re-inscribe binary gender and alternative phrases that support gender diversity.
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Gender expansive wordbank

Commonly used phrases that re-inscribe binary gender and alternative phrases that support gender diversity.
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GENDER IDENTITY

A video Ellen Scheetz made for elementary-aged children that features our Gender Constellation.

Working With Persona dolls

A three-page handout on how to get started working with persona dolls, published with the permission of authors Julie Olsen Edwards and Louise Derman-Sparks of Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves. Using persona dolls can be a great way to spark discussions about gender, transgender and gender expansive children, and community members with young children, without putting any students “on the spot.”
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Children’s Literature

Qualities to Look for in Gender Expansive Children’s Literature

Suggestions for qualities to look for in gender-expansive children’s literature, as well as changes you can make that will promote healthy gender development.
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Things to Look for and Modify in Books

A worksheet from the workshop, “Gender Liberation in Early Childhood—to the STARs!” (3/30/2024)

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Oral Storytelling 101

Tips on how to be a great oral storyteller, whether you’re weaving your own tales or reading books aloud.

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Recommended Gender expansive Children’s Literature

Books that encourage acceptance, respect, and the freedom to be yourself, appearing in order of release date.
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