Being You: A First Conversation About Gender

There’s only one you in the whole world. Isn’t that amazing? You have a body. Everybody does. What do you love about your body? Different bodies have different parts. Elbows! Noses! Belly buttons! Some bodies have a vagina. Some bodies have a penis. Every person’s body parts look different. But there are some parts we all have! When a baby is born, grown-ups might say “it’s a girl” if their body has a vagina, or “it’s a boy” if their body has a penis. Sometimes grown-ups aren’t sure, but they choose the words “girl” or “boy” anyway. What did your grown-ups call you when you were born? Some babies grow into a different gender than the one that grown-ups called them. There are lots of different genders that people grow into. Some people are girls. Some people are boys. Some people are neither. Some people are both. What are some genders that you know about?