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Kirsten's Reviews > It's Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends
It's Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (The Family Library)
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bookshelves: children-or-ya, from-library, health-and-wellness, kiddo-read-alouds, non-fiction
Feb 23, 2020
bookshelves: children-or-ya, from-library, health-and-wellness, kiddo-read-alouds, non-fiction
This was once a really solid book but it DESPERATELY needs an update to take into account trans experiences. I had to do a lot of editing on the fly, because it's very essentialist in terms of conflating sexual organs with gender. I would love to see the author take a cue from Cory Silverberg. I'm still giving it three stars because it offered a good basic starting place and I was able to edit to make it more relevant, but it's pretty disappointing that this is still considered by a lot of people to be the gold standard for sex ed.
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February 22, 2020
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Nov 08, 2022 11:19AM
There is a 2-page spread on how boys and girls aren't different because of their sexual organs. Where do you see them conflating sex and gender?
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Lgordo wrote: "There is a 2-page spread on how boys and girls aren't different because of their sexual organs. Where do you see them conflating sex and gender?"There's a lot of "boys have a penis, girls have a vagina" talk (to paraphrase), which doesn't take into account trans and nonbinary folks.
Even just changing it to say that MOST boys are born with a penis and MOST girls are born with ovaries/a vagina would be a good start in accounting for those who don't have that experience.
Or maybe "male children" and "female children"? This is a book about sex, so if you want kids to learn the basic facts of biology, one needs to stick with a biological dichotomy.
