New book explores trans kids

EBAR.com – by Zak Szymanski

More children these days are insisting upon their right to claim a variety of gender identities and expressions. But for most of these kids and their families, the issue isn’t about queer politics – it’s about struggling through a society still ill-equipped to handle gender-variant youth, all while navigating the fine line between happiness and safety.

Writers Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper hope to make that path a bit easier with their new book The Transgender Child, published earlier this summer by Cleis Press… This Sunday, August 10, Books Inc. at Opera Plaza in San Francisco will host a 4 p.m. reading and discussion of the book…