A House for Everyone. Jo Hirst
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A HOUSE FOR
EVERYONE
A Story to Help Children Learn about
Gender Identity and Gender Expression
JO HIRST
ILLUSTRATED BY NAOMI BARDOFF
Lunchtime is our favourite
part of the day.
We build a house
for everyone.
We collect everything
we need from around
the playground.
“I’ll get all the sticks we need,”
says Ivy. “It won’t take long.”
She is the fastest runner in our
group. She gathers large sticks
from all over the playground.
Ivy is a girl. She likes to have
her hair cut really short.
Her favourite clothes
are shorts and a T-shirt,
and she never, ever
chooses to wear a dress.
“I’ll build the house,” says Alex. “I’ll make sure it
holds together and does not fall down.”
Alex loves to build. They have the biggest LEGO®
collection of all of our friends.
They take the sticks that Ivy has collected and
carefully balance them up against the fence.
Alex does not feel like “just” a boy
or “just” a girl.
They feel very uncomfortable being
called he or she.
Alex prefers people to
use their name “Alex”
or “they.”
“I’ll decorate the house,” says Sam.
“When I have finished it will look amazing!”
Sam is very artistic and loves putting
different colours together.
He collects flowers and leaves from all the
different plants and trees in the playground.
He drapes them carefully on the house. When
he is finished it looks beautiful.
Sam is a boy. He loves to wear his hair long.
His favourite sport is basketball.
Sometimes, when he plays basketball,
he wears his hair in a ponytail.
“We will need something
to sit on,” says Jackson.
“I’ll take care of that.”
Jackson is very, very
strong.
He carries the biggest, heaviest rocks
from the playground into our house.
The big flat rocks make comfortable
seats for everyone.
Jackson is a boy. He loves to wear dresses.
At home he has a huge collection of sparkly shoes.
Dresses are not just for girls. Clothes are for everyone.
We can all wear the clothes that we like.
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