gender identity

How to Explain What "Transgender" Means

As transgender TV personalities and activists bring more awareness to gender identity issues, kids are bound to have questions. Here are some tips on how to discuss what it means for someone to be transgender.

I Fought the Bow . . . and the Bow Won

I have always been of the school of thought that those huge bows/flowers that people strapped to their babies' heads were ridiculous. Are people really that desperate to let people know that the tiny human they are carrying is a…