In her books “The Transgender Teen” and “The Transgender Child,” Brill encourages parents to expose children to books that affirm and explore gender expansion, but she doesn’t advocate specifically for books featuring sex acts, in those two volumes.
Ryan declined to comment to Cowboy State Daily.īurlingame also referenced the work of Stephanie Brill, author and founder of Gender Spectrum, an organization advocating for gender non-conforming youth.īrill did not respond Friday morning to a request for comment. Caitlin Ryan, director of San Francisco State University’s Family Acceptance Project who has studied LGBTQ youth development and social issues for decades. “Because they can articulate bodily autonomy and understand it, it helps them realize they don’t need to become sexually active to be accepted and get approval from the opposite sex, or same sex.”īurlingame referenced the work of Dr. “There’s just hard evidence that shows that when we give adolescents access to information, that it not only helps them delay becoming sexually active – that’s the effect it has – it does not sexualize them,” said Burlingame. Sara Burlingame Disputes Claimsīurlingame, who’s also a Democratic candidate for House District 44 in next month’s general election, was especially disappointed by a Cowboy State Daily story featuring Thomas Hampson, a longtime child sex crimes investigator in Illinois who said sexually graphic books make children more vulnerable to sex acts against them. They also are transgender-, gender-expansive- and non-binary-affirming. The books, “Gender Queer” and “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves,” are sexually graphic. Sara Burlingame, executive director of Wyoming Equality, a nonprofit group that advocates for LGBTQ rights, told Cowboy State Daily she has been disappointed in the publication’s coverage of two contested books in the Kelly Walsh High School library.
By Clair McFarland, Cowboy State all books with sexual content are inappropriate for minors, says a top LGBTQ ally in Wyoming.
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