This is a book for teachers. The last chapter is specifically about how to work with a transgender student
The book linked is by by Dr Elly Barnes MBE and Dr Anna Carlile, 'How to Transform Your School into an LGBT+ Friendly Place: A Practical Guide for Nursery, Primary and Secondary Teachers'
I do remember some discussion about aspects of this book earlier in the year.
December 2017 article by Sian Griffiths, Education Editor The Times:
'Gather round, class. Thomas the teddy wants to be a girl
Stories about gender identity are on nursery and school reading lists, but there are fears they may be damaging'
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Educate and Celebrate, an organisation funded by the Department for Education (DfE) to help schools prevent homophobia and transphobia. The charity has already supported dozens of primary and secondary schools to adopt gender-neutral lavatories and uniforms.
The books include one for young children called Introducing Teddy, published by Bloomsbury. It features Thomas, a teddy bear, who tells his friend Errol: “I need to be myself, Errol. In my heart, I’ve always known that I am a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. I wish my name was Tilly, not Thomas.”
Another picture book is called Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?, in which the book’s central character, called Tiny, queries their gender identity. Questions for discussion at the back of the book include: “Does it matter if Tiny is a boy or a girl?” and “Should Tiny be allowed to play football and dress up as a fairy?”
Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said: “I do not question the intentions of the people using and promoting this material, but it is misguided. They are inflicting adult neuroses about gender onto children who are not interested in gender. Children do not have issues about their gender in 99.9% of cases.
“Adults need to stop thinking children see the world the way they do. They do not. They may play at being a goblin one day, a dragon the next. They do not see the world in the way adults do and inflicting adult neuroses about gender onto children is damaging and cruel.” (continues)
Educate and Celebrate says it is “expert in transforming schools and organisations into LGBT-friendly places” and that it is supported by the DfE.
The organisation supplies lesson plans and book lists to nurseries and primary and secondary schools, which can buy them from its website, and sends trainers into schools to work with teachers.
Elly Barnes, the music teacher who set up Educate and Celebrate, said schools needed more diversity in children’s books. “The book collections we have sourced for schools are much needed to break the heteronormative model to reflect real-life families, which come in all different shapes and sizes,” she said." (continues)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gather-round-class-thomas-the-teddy-wants-to-be-a-girl-jlrzjn27k?shareToken=8d0af6f99759953f1414d91e5d516019