The Transgender Family Handbook144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
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Miss Piggy Has a MotherEveryone’s heard of Jim Henson. It’s time to give Bonnie Erickson — creator of beloved Muppets and mascots including the Phillie Phanatic — her due.
ByNell McShane Wulfhart
family
Why Did These YouTubers Give Away Their Son?Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.
Is It Time to Quit Therapy?For years, we were told it was the key to living a good life. What if we don’t want to go anymore?
ByMelissa Dahl
family
The Last Thing My Mother WantedHealthy at age 74, she decided there was nothing on earth still keeping her here, not even us.
ByEvelyn Jouvenet
cut covers
Brittney Griner’s Joyful Next ChapterThe basketball star talks to Megan Rapinoe about the life she’s survived — and the happily ever after she gets to enjoy now.
Bythe Cut
met gala 2024
The Met Gala’s Costume DramaTonight, Anna Wintour will raise an astonishing amount of money for the museum. For what?
The Chaos Inside Diddy’s Harlem Charter SchoolParents were drawn in by Capital Prep’s celebrity connections and social justice curriculum. Instead, their children faced violence and dysfunction.
BySangeeta Singh-Kurtz
health
The Ozempic PushersSome fat patients say doctors are pressuring them to take the miracle drug instead of listening to their immediate health concerns.
ByAngelina Chapin
parenting
How Dr. Becky Professionalized ParentingBecky Kennedy popularized buzzwords like reparenting oneself and co-regulation — it’s made her the most influential parenting expert since Dr. Spock.
The Lure of DivorceSeven years into my marriage, I hit a breaking point. Since then, I’ve had to decide whether life would be better without my husband in it.
A Maui Love StoryDuring the Maui wildfires, a young couple turned toward each other to survive Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster.
ByErika Hayasaki
relationships
The Age GappersThey say they’re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them?
ByLila Shapiro
health
An American Girlhood in the Ozempic EraParents, activists, and doctors are divided about giving children new weight-loss drugs. At age 13, Maggie Ervie became one of the first to take them.
ByLisa Miller
parenting
The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive ParentSome moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard.
What Happened to Maya KowalskiWhen a 10-year-old girl complained of mysterious pain, a doctor suspected child abuse. How far would she go to prove it?
ByDyan Neary
culture
Erewhon’s SecretsJapanese utopians. Corporate glow-ups. $400 smoothies. The strange history of the world’s most cultish grocery store.
ByKerry Howley
power
The Rise and Fall of ‘Dr. Roxy’When plastic surgeon Dr. Katharine Grawe rose to TikTok fame, her OR seemed busier than ever. Until a record of botched surgeries caught up to her.
The Cost of Straight HairThe products Black women rely on to give their locks body and shine are now alleged to give them cancer, too.
ByAngelina Chapin
fall fashion issue 2023
Dylan Mulvaney’s Girlhood, InterruptedShe never expected to be attacked by the right-wing ghoul squad for just being so delightfully herself. She’s ready to make the most of it.