How To Talk About Gender Identity (with Casey Brown)
Language evolves over time; we need to evolve with it. Christine interviews Casey Brown about gender identity, language, and parenting. They talk about Casey’s gender identity journey over the last 17 years, the importance of giving kids room around gender identity, how kids are often more comfortable than adults when talking about gender, “pronouns 101,” and how compassionately communicating with other human beings boils down to some really, really simple universals and actions.
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Minimalist Parenting (our book)
- Life With Roozle (Casey’s blog) + these amazing posts: 17 Years Later I’m Still Coming Out, Lessons From My 8-Year-Old On Gender Identity
- Casey’s Instagram account: @lifewithroozle (Riley is the fanciest!)
- Edit Your Life Episode Untangling Overparenting (interview with Jessica Lahey)
- Singular “they” = the word of the year in 2015
- AMAZE.org + our interview with AMAZE’s Nora Gelperin on Talking To Kids About Sexual Harassment
- The Gender Spectrum (at the Teaching Tolerance website)
- Casey recommends: What Makes A Baby by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth, Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
- Gender Identity: Being Female, Male, Transgender or Genderfluid (video from AMAZE.org)
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