Transgender Awareness Week is November 13-19, leading to Transgender Day of Remembrance / Trans Day of Resilience on November 20th.

We join our trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary family members, friends, and neighbors near and far in celebrating the lives of trans people, remembering those lost to transphobic hate crimes, and renewing our commitment to fight for trans rights. Recent years have been especially difficult and dangerous for trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people — particularly people of color and Native people in the trans community.

Here's an updated roundup of resources to help spread understanding and inspire action from The Horn Book's archives and beyond.

Horn Book resources on representation of trans and gender nonconforming people in children's books

• Transgender Awareness Week 2024 from October 2024 Notes from the Horn Book
• Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Jen Wang about Ash's Cabin
• Transgender Day of Visibility
• Transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary characters from November 2021 Notes from the Horn Book
• Primary, intermediate, and older reader book recommendations from The Guide/Reviews Database for Transgender Day of Visibility
• Publishers' Preview: Debut Authors: Five Questions for Aiden Thomas about Cemetery Boys
• Two, four, six, eight, don’t assume your kids are straight! by Kitty Flynn
• Five Questions for Kyle Lukoff about When Aidan Became a Brother
• Hill Saxton for Calling Caldecott on When Aidan Became a Brother
• Publishers' Previews: Debut Authors: Five Questions for Kathryn Gonzales about Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
• On Julie Luecke’s “Reading Along the Gender Continuum” by Kitty Flynn (Family Reading)
• Remember by Kitty Flynn (Family Reading)
• Transgender lives booklist by Kitty Flynn (Out of the Box)
• Parrotfish Needed an Update by Ellen Wittlinger
• The Genre of Gender: The Emerging Canon of Transgender-Inclusive YA Literature by Ellsworth Rockefeller (September/October 2007 Horn Book Magazine)

Other resources on LGBTQIA+ representation in literature; recommended books

• LGBTQIA+ representation from June 2023 Notes from the Horn Book
• YA Pride from June 2022 Notes from the Horn Book
• Out of the Box: Rainbow Reads by Sarah Threlkeld, Jake Koniszewski, and Cynthia K. Ritter
• LGBTQIA+ tweens and young teens from June 2021 Notes from the Horn Book
• The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics: Spotlight on LGBTQ+ Stories by Madeline Tyner (November/December 2018 Horn Book Magazine)
• Kacen Callender's BGHB20 interview with Roger + Rule Breakers: Never a Rule to Begin With + Five Questions for the QPOC author. 
• Family Reading: LGBTQIA+ Books That I Have Read by Onyx H.

• Family Reading: Finding a Safe Space (Or, One Family’s Search for Middle Grade LGBTQIA+ Books) by Cynthia Platt

• 2020 YA Pride Fiction
• Happy Anniversary: I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by Roger Sutton (January/February 2019 Horn Book Magazine)
• From The Guide: We Need Middle-Grade LGBTQ+ Books (November/December 2018 Horn Book Magazine)
• 2019 Rainbow Book List
• 2019 Stonewall Book Awards List
• Medal on My Mind: A Stonewall Speculation Blog
• Gay YA
• I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell Do I Read?
• Reading While Queer

More resources from around the web

• National Center for Transgender Equality
• The Trevor Project
• Transgender Awareness Week
• Transgender Day of Remembrance
• National LGBTQ Task Force's Stop Trans Murders campaign

For more, click on the tags trans/gender nonconforming and LGBTQIA+.