After 20 yrs as a child therapist, a decade of meeting trans kids, plus lived experience, these principles have proven their worth.

This November, I am asking you to vote for candidates and policies that explicitly protect my queer kid as if they were your queer kid.

Find hope in the incredible work being done by 5 Midwest organizations stepping up to support gender-expansive kids and their families.

When the government established to protect, explicitly denies a marginalized community’s existence, the result is deadly for trans youth.

Parents of trans kids use story telling to find connection, healing and joy.

Why my Midwest roots matter when traveling to 4 states this summer to meet parents raising trans kids in the middle of the US.

When I ask parents of gender-expansive kids how raising their kid has impacted their concept of gender, they all said their mindset shifted.

“It's the same thing as any parent, right? No matter how your kids identify. That's what I want for them."

My heightened awareness of Lucy's gender enabled me to notice the encounter. Otherwise, I may have carried on unchecked.

Why prioritize believing your kid’s gender identity? Because a parent’s quest to understand is just that, it’s their own.

Parents today wrestle with how to expand our ideas about identity and belonging, including our concept of gender. 

"The burden [as parents of trans kids] is dealing with other people's ... prejudice. We have the tools for everything else."