Parenting Trans and Non-binary Children
Exploring Practices of Love, Support, and Everyday Advocacy
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Beschreibung
Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children. Mikulak explores how parents negotiate and challenge cis-normativity to make familial, educational, and healthcare settings livable for their trans and gender diverse children. By examining the educational and emotional labor that parents perform as they advocate for their children across these different settings, the book will highlight the value of parental expertise and labor while calling out the systemic failures that continue to make this work necessary. This research will be of interest to scholars researching family studies, kinship studies, gender studies, and queer studies.
Magdalena Mikulak (she/her) is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Previously, she worked as a researcher with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. She has a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK.
Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children. Mikulak explores how parents negotiate and challenge cis-normativity to make familial, educational, and healthcare settings livable for their trans and gender diverse children. By examining the educational and emotional labor that parents perform as they advocate for their children across these different settings, the book highlights the value of parental expertise and labor while calling out the systemic failures that continue to make this work necessary. This research will be of interest to scholars researching family studies, kinship studies, gender studies, and queer studies.
Based on in-depth interviews with 20 parents of trans and nonbinary young people Looks at parenting trans and gender diverse children and trans issues across a range of fields Provides valuable insights on the future of what parenting trans and nonbinary young people might look like
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Magdalena Mikulak
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“Mikulak’s precision and clarity unpicks the social landscape, throwing a vital and sympathetic spotlight onto the families of trans youth. Challenging hand-wringing moral panics and sociologically contextualising systemic disadvantages, this book adds a much-needed account of navigating life in support, recognition, and inclusion of trans and gender diverse children and young people.”
—Ben Vincent, Research Coordinator, Trans Learning Partnership, UK
“Patient, precise, and powerfully written, this book offers an urgent and necessary insight into the parenting of trans children. Mikulak expertly marshals evidence from groundbreaking research to show how parents can and do support their children amidst growing social and political challenges. This will be vital reading not just for researchers and professionals who work with young trans people and their families, but also for parents seeking a caring yet critical perspective.”
—Ruth Pearce, Lecturer in Community Development, School of Education, University of Glasgow, Scotland and Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Transgender Studies, USA
"A vital book about supporting a tiny group of loving parents whose needs are at risk of being ignored in the eye of a contemporary moral panic. The first hand evidence of what these ordinary families have to navigate will shock you. Whether you’re a clinician, teacher, close friend or relative of such a parent you need to read this."
—Christine Burns MBE, Author and Retired Activist, UK
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