🏳️🌈 Meet Hallothon Patnott, a transgender Oak Park librarian who is helping to make libraries a more gender-affirming space for queer youth. | Kait Lavo 👇
Oak Park librarian Hallothon Patnott holds two selections from the LGBTQ+ book list beside a progress pride flag librarians created for the library’s children’s section.Clear backpacks lean against one another like a line of fallen dominoes. Inside each of the bags is a collection of specially curated books. As a caregiver’s murmurs break the silence of the Oak Park Library children’s section, the top of a child’s head peeks above the bookshelves.
“I’m from a really small conservative town. I didn’t have access to any of the books or resources that would have told me that trans people exist,” Patnott said. “I don’t think I even really knew that trans people existed, particularly not trans men, until well into college.” Ricky Hill, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, says spaces like Oak Park Library can be important referral points for families seeking gender-affirming care.
”Libraries are one of the most important community information hubs,” they said. “Libraries aren’t just for reference materials, they are places where people just come to spend time. A lot of people who are either unhoused or transient show up in those spaces; young people show up in those spaces quite a bit.”
“It’s this really beautiful story about a genderfluid child, who is a shapeshifter, and their mom,” Patnott said. “They are starting school for the first time and they’re excited and really nervous.” LGBTQ+ students experience much higher rates of discrimination and bullying than other students, although they are a smaller fraction of the population, Gilbert said.
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