Books for 2SLGBTQIA+ Parents & Families

Updated May 5, 2025
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Baby making for everybody : family building and fertility for LGBTQ+ and solo pa
Rachlin, Ray.
Paper Book
This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You're Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model--perfect for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don't know where to start.     
Three dads and a baby : adventures in modern parenting /
Jenkins, Ian.
Paper Book
As a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever fall in love or be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous Throuple, and the support of family, friends, and coworkers. But something was still missing. Spurred by a friend's donation of...
The natural mother of the child : a memoir of nonbinary parenthood /
Malcolm Belc, Krys.
Paper Book
Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood--conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson--eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and...
How we do family : from adoption to trans pregnancy, what we learned about love and LGBTQ parenthood
Reese, Trystan
Paper Book
Trystan and Biff had been dating for just a year when the couple learned that Biff's niece and nephew were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services. Immediately, Trystan and Biff took in one-year-old Hailey and three-year-old Lucas, becoming caregivers overnight to two...
Queer conception : the complete fertility guide for queer and trans parents-to-b
Kali, Kristin L.
Paper Book
" A a well-researched, deeply comprehensive (and readable!) guide to building a queer family in a way that works for you." -Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better This groundbreaking, up-to-date fertility guide from trusted queer and trans midwife Kristin Liam Kali...
Love lives here : a story of thriving in a transgender family /
Jette Knox, Amanda
Paper Book
Amanda Jette Knox was unprepared when the child she knew as her son came out as transgender at the age of eleven. Shocked, but knowing how important it was to support her daughter, Jett© Knox became an ardent advocate for trans rights. But there was more to come. For many years, Amanda had coped...

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