A Guide to Gender is broken into four sections: - Basic Training (which sets the foundation of knowledge for the book, defining concepts of social justice, oppression, privilege, and more); - Breaking through the Binary (beginning with a discussion of gender norms, and working toward a more nuanced understanding of gender identity, gender expression, and sex); - Feminism & Gender Equity (how feminism can be a solution to the injustices folks of all genders face); and - Social Justice Competence (a series of short, practical lessons that will help readers put the learning from the book to work). It's written for people who want to learn for themselves, educators who are hoping to better communicate themes of gender to others, and activists who want to add a gender equity lens to their vision of justice.

Basic training. General address -- Navigating the book -- Defining social justice -- The cycle of oppression -- The corruption of the golden rule -- Understanding intersections of identity -- Checking your privilege -- Breaking through the binary. Gender norms -- Introduction to the genderbread person -- Genderbread 101: getting started -- Using the "spectrums" genderbread person -- An improved way of visualizing gender -- Gender identiyy explored -- Gender expression explored -- Anatomical sex explored -- Attraction and gender -- An assortment of gender identities -- How to diagnose someone as transgender -- The dangers of normalized binary gender -- A "non-vital" medical procedure -- Let's talk about bathrooms -- A unified understanding of gender. Feminism and gender equity. The well-intentioned misogynist -- A gender-inclusive feminist perspective -- Why poeple believe feminism hates men -- Social justice competence: working for gender equity. Why my approach to social justice is better than yours -- Being well-intentioned isn't good enough -- No such thing as a positive stereotype -- Making forms gender inclusive -- "Partner" and other inclusive language -- Political correctness vs. being inclusive -- Responding to non-inclusive language.