This page is a collection of resources for parents, including some things you might want to share with your child, including useful websites, writings, books and videos.

See also the Detransition, Desisting and Reidentifying page for useful stories from people who transitioned and later regretted doing so or gained new insights into why they had taken that path.

Note: The most coherent arguments against transgender theory have been made by feminists, some of which are included here. We don’t include writing by far-right religious groups because their view seems to be based on simple prejudice which encompasses gay and lesbian people, and not on considered argument.

Dysphoria for different view on dysphoria

The best online resource for parents: a blog where you can find consistent excellent writing and research as well as personal accounts from a growing parent community. Essential reading.

“4thWaveNow was started by the mother of a teenage girl who suddenly announced she was a “trans man” after a few weeks of total immersion in YouTube transition vlogs. (The daughter has since desisted from identifying as transgender.) After much research and fruitless searching for an alternative online viewpoint, this mom began writing about her deepening skepticism of the ever-accelerating medical and media fascination with the phenomenon of “transgender children.””

4thwavenow.com

A site which was founded by a group of professionals sceptical of the trend to diagnose children and adolescents as transgender. An important alternative viewpoint from professionals in the field.

“This website is a community of professionals thinking critically about the youth transgender movement. We are psychologists, social workers, doctors, medical ethicists, and academics.We tend to be left-leaning, open-minded, and pro-gay rights. However, we are concerned about the current trend to quickly diagnose and affirm young people as transgender, often setting them down a path toward medical transition.”

Youth Trans Critical Professionals

A blog from the father of a teenage girl who has announced she is transgender. “A bit of a boring middle aged bloke, trying to keep his daughter safe. Shamelessly stealing ideas from Gender Critical Radical Feminism.”

Gender Critical Dad

Parents of teenage girls may want to share this brilliant video series from Peach Yogurt with their daughters. Highly recommended viewing:

https://youtu.be/pMEErnIyBG4

The most thorough and comprehensive examination of the difference between biological sex and gender, taking in science, social and political meanings, hierarchies of gender, and the implications of ‘gender identity’ as a replacement for biology. By Rebecca Reilly-Cooper.

Read the full guide here

A talk in which Rebecca Reilly-Cooper brilliantly explains the incoherence of gender identity theory.

Watch the full talk here

The definitive take-down of the old myths of hard-wired, innate sex differences in the brain, written by neuroscientist Cordelia Fine.

See the book on Amazon here

Another good book on the myths of the differences between men and women, girls and boys, popularised by the book ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.’ Clear, amusing and readable, this is a book teenage girls (or boys) may enjoy. By Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University.

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This is a clear overview of the history of transgender politics which provides the context for the very recent practice of transgendering children. Thorough, meticulously-researched and clearly-argued from a feminist perspective. By Sheila Jeffreys, Professor of Feminist Politics, University of Melbourne.

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Advice for parents from a young woman who was on the transgender path. “Also, you need to be able to support your daughter, but if your child confronts you about your hesitations, simply tell her this: “if anything medically bad happened to you as a result of my consenting to hormone treatment for you, I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself.” Don’t offer any further explanations. Hold firm on this. Repeat as necessary.”

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From the parenting blog ‘Communicating with Kids.’ Put ‘transgender’ into Search to find all the posts relating to transgender issues. “For children, ‘I’m really a girl’ or ‘I’m really a boy’ is the only language they have to understand and explain their personalities in a world that reinforces the correct gender behaviour everywhere they look. Society does a pretty thorough job of conditioning children into boy and girl roles as it is, can’t at least we parents feel and express confidence in our tough girls and sensitive boys?”

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A useful personal story from a young lesbian woman who moved from immersion in transgender politics as a social justice cause to a realisation of the harms of the movement for women and, especially, lesbians. This is a helpful synopsis of the two sides of the debate for all young people. “I was taught that transgender people were born in the wrong body and had to change their body to match their internal image of themselves. I am an open-minded person and I had no problem believing this. But a lot of my feminist sisters were not open to it. I started getting into online fights with other feminists.”

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An alternative view from a transwoman who challenges the usual mantra ‘transwomen are women.’ “I’m a bit like you. I was a boy who didn’t fit in, who grew into a young man who didn’t fit in, and wanted, and wished, to be a girl.”

Read the full post here

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