What does it mean to do gender in a world in which the system of gender, from a white, cisgender perspective, is seemingly changing? Tey Meadow's Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century aims to answer this question by utilizing ethnographic analyses that provide thick description, complex answers, and even more questions for future research. The book makes valuable contributions to the sociology of gender and families, but its lack of engagement with critical trans epistemologies and use of outdated language limit its contributions to trans studies. In Trans Kids, Meadow argues that parents’ and adults’ perceptions of trans kids are shifting within the family, medicine, and activist spaces. The majority of the parents in the study utilized essentialist logic to understand their child's transness. Such logic ranged from gene mutations to psychological and neurological divergences to spiritual ideas of transness being “a status that's entrusted to souls”...

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