From: Stacy Whitman <stacylwhitman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 13:31:48 -0400

This conversation reminds me of a real-life case about a girl attending a Christian school < http://www.cbsnews.com/news/christian-school-complains-8-year-old-girl-isnt-girly-enough/> who was reprimanded for "dressing like a boy" and having short hair. She's maybe 8 or 9 years old, and just likes more "boy"-oriented clothes (at this point, her grandmother who was raising her said, she doesn't feel like she's a boy in a girl's body or anything--she just prefers that style).

But whether or not she identifies as trans, it's a story we don't see very often in books. I think there is a dearth of representation of girls who don't express gender norms in all media (as a girl who grew up hating dresses because of how impractical they were on our farm, I notice a lot how many girls are dressed in dresses in TV and movies) and of children born female who identify as trans/genderfluid.

Stacy Whitman Publisher, Tu Books http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu.mhtml

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Received on Wed 07 May 2014 12:36:00 PM CDT