Utah sociologist talks about 'Raising Them,' her book chronicling the first years bringing up a child without assigning a gender identity

My interview with Kyl Myers, a Utah-based sociologist who wrote the new book “Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting,” is a story nearly three years in the making.

In April 2018, I caught a story in The Cut, one of the blogs in the New York magazine universe, about parents who were raising their children without assigning a gender identity. One of the families most prominent in the story were Myers and her husband, Brent Courtney, who were chronicling the raising of their child, Zoomer, in a blog and an Instagram account.

I sent a message to Myers, asking if she would sit for an interview with her hometown paper. She said no.

But she didn’t forget me. Last month, she had a publicist contact me, asking if I’d be interested in doing the interview now that her book was out. I was, and we had a lovely Zoom interview where we talked about her family, her sociology work, and what’s next for Zoomer.

Read that interview here, at sltrib.com.