I wrote this comic for Terry Flemming’s blog post about Trans teens on her Parenting Teens blog.

The research I mention in the first panel is called How Safe by Holly Painter (edited by Philippa Keaney).

As for the research she mentions; whenever trans people are included in research I’m all like:

 

yaay!

So basically, all y’all researchers should do it more.

Also the little text at the bottom reads:

*People who are gender diverse usually do not identify with their assigned sex. They may identify outside of the gender binary, as both male and female, or as neither male nor female. Gender diversity is a term that can be inclusive of Mahu, Vakasalewalewa, Palopa, Fa’afafine, Akava’ine, Fakaleiti, and Fakafefine (for more information about MVPFAFF check out Phylesha Brown-Acton’s amazing AsiaPacific Outgames speech: http://www.wellington2011.org/transcript.html?id=2-1306228428-826.