Lee Airton - Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture

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Praise for Gender: Your Guide

Todays workplaces must reflect the reality that gender is not as simple as previously thought. Understanding how to include everyone, regardless of how they identify and express their gender, is the key to unlocking the potential of any workforce. Gender: Your Guide provides the tools necessary for employers of any size to respond to the changing needs of employees and jobseekers.

COLIN DRUHAN , executive director of Pride at Work Canada

Dr. Airton is the perfect brilliant-but-accessible, frank-but-kind guide to our current LGBTQ language and landscape. Gender: Your Guide is without a doubt the most delightful and focused road map Ive seen to treating trans people (and yourself!) with dignity.

JEFFREY MARSH , nonbinary activist and author of How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Airton, Lee, author.

Gender: your guide / Lee Airton, PhD.

Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN 2018023274 (print) | LCCN 2018037239 (ebook) | ISBN 9781507209004 (hc) | ISBN 9781507209011 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Gender identity. | Parenting. | Parent and child. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child.

Classification: LCC HQ1075 (ebook) | LCC HQ1075 .A3577 2018 (print) | DDC 305.3--dc23

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From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations

To my past, present, and future students, many of whom are teachers. May you welcome all of the ways that your students do gender and greet this abundance with care and enthusiasm. I know you can do it. Wear the thriving gender diversity in your classroom as a badge of honor and pride.

And to BBFL, my four beloved little (and not-so-little-anymore) people, with love from your Wizzie.

This book exists because people have shared with me, in my capacities as a blogger, educator, researcher, colleague, friend, partner, or community member. I do not believe that knowledge is a single-author proposition. Rather, I hope this book honors the relationships that gave it life and that have given me the means and capacity to do my work.

I acknowledge all of the transgender-spectrum people before and alongside me who have participated in knowledge creation about gender from our unique yet multiplicitous perspectives. I acknowledge the work of others who seek ways to make gender more joyful and less harmful. My bibliography is a testament to just how much work has been done that informs my own.

Cate Coulacos Prato at Adams Media has been a steadfast supporter of the book and its message from our very first conversation. Laura Daly was a clear-eyed and thoughtful editor. My agent, Samantha Haywood, and her colleagues at the Transatlantic Agency supported me through this process with warmth and wisdom.

I have smart and generous friends whose expertise supplemented mine in writing this book. Lex Konnelly and Bronwyn Bjorkman freely dispensed linguistic wisdom and tutelage in linguistics. Kyle Kirkup freely dispensed legal wisdom and tutelage in Canadian human rights law. Anthony Michael Kreis took time to answer my questions about American human rights law. Jake Pyne and Zoe Whitall are equal parts kind and inspiring and gave me valuable help and advice on the process of making a popular press book. Julia Sinclair-Palm provided generous feedback on drafts, and Naomi de Szegheo-Lang provided expert textual assistance. Lindsay Herriot is a superhero whose contagious commitment to this work always fills my tank. Luna yelled at me each morning until Id gone upstairs to the office, lifted her into the window hammock, and started writing. Hemlock offered perfect hugs and reminded me to take breaks (to feed him, but still).

Im lucky to have supportive colleagues in the Faculty of Education at Queens University who encouraged me to take on this nonacademic book project even during my first tenure-track year. I particularly acknowledge Chris DeLuca, Kristy Timmons, Pamela Beach, Alana Butler, Lindsay Morcom, and Ted Christou for the laughter and authenticity you bring to my work life. My dean, Rebecca Luce-Kapler, encourages me in work that pushes the boundaries of traditional academic duties, including this book. At Queens, Ive also benefited from robust conversations about trans pedagogy with E. M. MacDonald, Kip Pegley, and Trish Salah.