Ep. 88 Exploring Gender Creative Parenting with Kyl Myers
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am joined by Dr. Kyl Myers, a sociologist, award-winning educator, and a globally-recognized advocate for Gender Creative Parenting. Since 2016, Kyl has been speaking and writing about Gender Creative Parenting and using their own parenting story to help the world learn about and embrace a new type of childhood. Kyl is genderqueer, uses they/them and she/her pronouns, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can find Kyl’s musings and bite-size gender studies lessons on Instagram @kyl_myers (bio abbreviated from kylmyers.com)
In this episode, we dive into the following topics...
- Kyl’s experience identifying as queer in a heterosexual appearing marriage
- Kyl’s perspective as a gender-creative parent
- Alexis’ experience coming to terms with her bisexuality while in a heterosexual relationship
- how gender disparity affects all genders
- Sex (anatomical and physiological characteristics regarding sexual reproduction) vs. gender (identity and expression)
- Navigating parenting decision and gender identity with extended family members
- Gender terminology
Mentioned in this week's episode...
- Bethany Meyers’ Instagram @bethanycmeyers
- Ashlee Marie Preston’s Instagram @ashleemariepreston
- Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting by Kyl Myers
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| 0:39.8 | But I think for parents who assigned a gender to their child, |
| 0:44.7 | that isn't like a bad thing, right? That is the thing that mainstream majority of parents are |
| 0:52.1 | going to do, but I think people can do though, is recognize that gender assignments can be wrong, |
| 1:00.0 | right? We can get them wrong because gender is a really personally experienced thing, |
| 1:05.7 | and no one can tell me what my gender is except for me, no one can tell you Alexis, what |
| 1:11.1 | your gender is, and like our kids right, get to they get to determine what their gender is. |
| 1:16.2 | And so I what I really think that and I'm seeing it happen with parents who might have assigned a |
| 1:21.2 | gender, they let their kids know, you know, at two, three, four, five, six, 14, they say, |
| 1:28.4 | I want you to know that I understand gender in a different way than I did when you were born, |
| 1:35.0 | and I just want you to know that I took a guest about your gender, and I recognize I might have |
| 1:42.9 | gotten it right, and I might not have, and I just want you to know that I am here for you, you know, |
| 1:50.2 | and I think that what we all we can do is say, here's the ways that I'm aware of that people can |
| 1:55.2 | experience gender, like if kids have more role models, right, like if they can see trans characters, |
| 2:01.8 | if they can see non-binary characters, if they can see more like inner sex characters, like if they |
| 2:08.4 | can see more representation, and if we talk to kids about pronouns, our kids can tell us what |
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