“Trans Kids is a carefully researched, deeply thoughtful, and beautifully written account of the ways that families, professionals, and authorities respond to the presence of transgender children in North American society today. It captures the fear, love, and hope that swirl around these lives and tells us something important—and new—about gender itself.”—Raewyn Connell, author of Masculinities and Confronting Equality

“In Trans Kids, Meadow successfully and coherently merges theory and practice, heart and soul. The result is this landmark book about trans youth and how their families might avoid yesterday’s pitfalls and become truly loving and supportive. This is the leading edge of trans today.”—Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw 

“A gripping and compassionate read, Trans Kids is the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child. In telling the narratives of ‘facilitative families,’ Tey Meadow provides a powerfully detailed account of the dramatic changes happening in the West around gender as a category that will speak to parents, practitioners, and academics alike.”—C. J. Pascoe, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and author of Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

“Trans Kids is essential reading for anyone traversing the ever-shifting ground of gender identity in the twenty-first century. Meadow has created an intricate narrative here that combines meticulous ethnographic research with bold theoretical claims. The result is a compulsively readable and deeply compassionate account of trans kids, the parents who usher them through adolescence, and the experts who treat them. Gender, Meadow argues, is a rapidly expanding set of classifications for the body, and trans kids are on the front lines of this massive transformation.”— Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, author of Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
 “A major, clear-eyed, and beautifully written contribution to thinking intelligently and empathetically about gender today—how it is mushrooming, producing new realizations, new subjectivities, and new battlegrounds.”—Don Kulick, author of Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

"Tey Meadow’s powerful account follows the institutional shift from regulatory to facilitative medicine in the treatment of gender variance, and documents the process through which atypical gender has become understood 'not as a failure of gender but as a form of gender.' Through moving and acutely attuned interviews, Meadow shows how parents can 'give gender' to their trans kids. This is a timely and illuminating book."—Gayle Salamon, author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality.