Raising Them, Kyl Myers
Raising Them, Kyl Myers
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Raising Them
Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting

Author: Kyl Myers

Narrator: Kyl Myers

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2020

Synopsis

“What did you have? A boy or a girl?” Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then…As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered.In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family’s choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression.Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the limitless possibilities of being yourself.

About Kyl Myers

Dr. Kyl Myers is a sociologist, educator, and globally recognized advocate of gender creative parenting. Kyl’s TEDx Talk, “Want Gender Equality? Let’s Get Creative,” encourages people to rethink childhood gender socialization in an effort to break up the binary before it begins. Kyl is the creator of www.raisingzoomer.com and the Instagram account @raisingzoomer. Kyl lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their family. For more information, visit www.kylmyers.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luke on May 13, 2021

I was really looking forward to reading this book. As a nonbinary trans guy considering to raise my kids one day without assigning them a gender I really wanted to hear about the ways this could pan out in the current society that we live in. I must say, I was a little disappointed in the book. I want......more

Goodreads review by Erica Rosemary on January 23, 2021

~ARC received in exchange for an honest review~ 'Raising Them' written by Kyl Myers, PhD is a memoir portraying her families venture into 'gender-creative' parenting - a term that is new to me but is a welcome alternative to the term 'gender-neutral' which I've always felt is a bit 'meh' and doesn't......more

Goodreads review by Caro on April 09, 2024

I enjoyed this - thanks to Alexis for loaning it to me! I relate to Kyl in many ways and commend her for taking on the daily emotional work of advocating for gender creative parenting.  I have heard of parents not assigning gender and whenever I thought of doing it myself, my knee-jerk reaction was th......more

Goodreads review by Josh on February 14, 2022

3.5-4 stars This is a memoir by a non-binary fem presenting parent who raised their child as non-binary until they were old enough to choose for themselves. This book was disappointing because I expected a how to guide, but that isn't what this is. It is more a reflection on their experience. I appre......more

Goodreads review by Rhianon on January 17, 2021

A beautifully written book. Gender creative parenting was a concept I knew little about but one as someone who identifies outside of the binary, that I was interested in. I’d only ever seen negative media articles or interviews regarding the topic and it was so refreshing to find this book.......more

Quotes

“Frank and compassionate…An enlightening, much-needed resource for parents hoping to raise their children without limitations.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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