![]() I also found the authoritarian tone of some of the statements: "grown ups guessed right about their body and their gender. Puberty is a confusing enough time, with many children fluctuating between different behaviours (such as the older, better-known occasional girlish tendency to tomboyism) as they look for solidity and self-awareness without this type of distortion adding to the issues of their navigating their sexual development. This book through its ultra diverse colourful imagery is clearly aimed at young children. There is a division to be made between the 0.005% of people born with some form of gender identity disorder, due to hormonal or biological anomalies and the wider group of people who are broadly non-sex conformist and whose identity is more often 'chosen'. I have to say, I found the content troubling. ![]() ![]() I picked this book up when killing time with my children in a museum library. ![]()
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