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Where Babies Come From: Trans-Friendly Version

Started by Shana A, January 12, 2013, 09:13:36 AM

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Shana A

January 12, 2013, 09:13:36 AM
Where Babies Come From: Trans-Friendly Version

Filed By Paige Schilt | January 11, 2013 12:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2013/01/where_babies_come_from_trans-friendly_version.php

I've written before about how hard it is to find children's books about reproduction that don't assume a gender binary (and children's books about human sexuality that don't assume reproduction). Most books for kids begin with "everyone is born a boy or a girl" and end with "some day you'll make a family too," but those are assumptions we don't make in our family, because 1) we're queer feminists and 2) Mommy is genderqueer.

That's why I was so excited about Cory Silverberg's book What Makes a Baby. Silverberg, a Toronto-based sex educator and writer, set out to create a "where do babies come from" story that would be inclusive for transgender, gay, lesbian and other nontraditional families.

As an adult reader, I appreciate the book's attempt to uncouple sex from gender. Playful gender-neutral figures are accompanied by matter-of-fact statements:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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