Peek Inside Our Book: "When Kids Say They're Trans"
Last year Sasha and Stella wrote a book along with friend and colleague, Lisa Marchiano. In this short promo video you can learn more about what’s in the book, who it’s for, and why this threesome came together to write it.
"Parents of children who announce a transgender identity often find themselves in a world of confusion and contradiction. These brilliant, clear-eyed authors -- all with extensive clinical experience -- have written the emergency survival guide for families."
Abigail Shrier — Author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"This compassionate and evidence-based book is an essential counterbalance to the ubiquitous “trans child” narrative that has misled so many loving parents into unwittingly harming their gender-distressed children."
Helen Joyce — Author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
If you’re interested in learning even more about “When Kids Say They’re Trans,” check out this episode:
Visit the book website here!
"Sasha, Stella, and Lisa bring enormous warmth, insight, and intelligence to the care of troubled children and teenagers.This book is essential reading for all parents and professionals supporting young people struggling with the issue of gender identity."
Louise Perry — Author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
“A wise and empathic resource for parents struggling with intensely difficult parenting terrain, based on the authors’ extensive expertise as therapists for gender-dysphoric youth. A godsend for lonely and anguished parents trying to do the best for their trans-identified child.”
Kathleen Stock — Author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"There is perhaps no subject today that is more complicated, fraught, and confusing than the sudden rise in gender dysphoria among young people. Parents encountering this issue for the first time will be hit with a tidal wave of conflicting opinions, theories, and “experts” that, however well-meaning, are guided by an incoherent and potentially harmful ideology. The book could not have come soon enough. Its authors are leading figures in the effort to bring sense and rationality to the conversation. Moreover, they are experienced clinicians who understand that gender dysphoric youth deserve meaningful psychotherapeutic treatment, not blind approbation on the internet. For any parent embarking on the gender journey, Is My Child Trans? should be the first stop along the way."
Meghan Daum — Author of The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars
Have you read it, yet? What did you think? Please share your thoughts in the comments. The comment section for this post is open to everyone.
When Kids Say They're Trans is a fantastic resource! I love the nuanced, compassionate way you talk about the issue. It demonstrates that it is possible to be both compassionate and reality-based. It is a much needed breath of fresh air in an environment that can often feel suffocating. Thank you!!
This is a comment on the article about Dr 'Death' Macchiarini since I am not a subscriber I can't comment on that thread. What I want to say is that comparing gender treatment to the kind of things that doctor did is completely off the charts wrong. Whilst gender ideology and much of what we know about transgenderism is mere contagion the actual phenomenon of transsexualism does exist, see Ramachandran, Zhou, McGeoch, Bakkar and Diamond for the papers, including brain studies and separated twin studies.
When I tweeted to Genspect, to which organisation I believe you are affiliated, I received a reply to the effect that since I was a transsexual why was I approaching them, since they did not agree with the existence of my condition.
If you will not engage with the people that you are criticising then you are demonstrating how weak your case is.