Transgender Children & Youth

In California, a transgender girl was crowned And in NH, a transgender high school boy was crowned homecoming king, unlike Pennsylvania, where the school system refused to allow a boy to even run as because he was assigned female at birth. Transgender high school student in N.H. crowned Homecoming King Monday, October 7, 2013 "Amid cheers from students and hugs from friends, Ray walked over to his dad who grabbed him by the shoulders, looked him in the eye and said, “I am so proud of you.”" --lgbtqnation.com

"Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born identical twins, but from the start each had a distinct personality... The process of remaking a family of identical twin boys into a family with one boy and one girl has been heartbreaking and harrowing and, in the end, inspiring - a lesson in the courage of a child, a child who led them, and in the transformational power of love..." Read the news article: Led by the child who simply knew

Transgender Teen’s Death Sparks Outcry From Advocates 10:09 AM ET Leelah Alcorn, 17, was killed after being hit by a tractor trailer Leelah Alcorn posted this photo on Tumblr, stating "I don't take many selfies because I hate how I look as a boy and I rarely get a chance to dress as a girl, so I'm only posting 5, but this year was a big year for me." Leelah Alcorn The apparent suicide of a transgender teenager in Ohio has become a lightning rod for trans activists after a note she left behind said her parents never accepted her gender identity. Leelah Alcorn, 17, was killed after being hit by a tractor trailer in Ohio on Sun…

TRANSGENDER CHILDREN: Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise Delmarva Daily Times Guidelines from the Endocrine Society endorse transgender hormone treatment but say it should not be given before puberty begins. At that point, the guidelines recommend puberty-blocking drugs until age 16, then lifelong sex-changing hormones with ...

"Experts say that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people make up a disproportionate number of the homeless youth; they represent as much as 40 percent of the national homeless population. Many youths with gender-identity issues have been kicked out of their homes or have run away." Read the article: Transgender and Homeless, Youth Struggles to Build a Life

Touching portraits of non-gender-conforming children at a summer camp captured by photographer Lindsay Morris 26 July 2013 | By Anna Leach " Morris' series of photographs titled You Are You is a sensitive portray of trans children expressing themselves. She hopes to publish a book of the photographs next year and will use profits to start a foundation to support the camp." --gaystarnews.com Non-gender-conforming kids caught on camera

was very happy that anderson showed he cared for our community in this. this by far my fav.

Bridgette P. LaVictoire on June 13, 2012. "For LGBT youth, the world is full of hostility towards homosexuality and transgenderism. These messages are coming from schools, religious leaders and elected officials. Unlike many others who are the subject of intense bullying, though, there is the other problem that many LGBT youth do not have a safe haven at home." -lezgetreal.com And The Survey Says: LGBT Youth Facing Hostility Everywhere

Transgender Children: What Would You Do By iVillage: What would you do if your son or daughter wanted to be the opposite sex from what they were born? Kelly Wallace and iVoices Amanda Rodriguez of http://www.ParentingByDummies.com, Sharon Rowley of http://www.Momof6.com, Beth Engelman of http://www.MommyOnAShoestring.com and Brandi Jeter of http://www.MamaKnowsItAll.com

CBS NewsMarch 25, 2014, 8:29 PM ""You can be assured that we have cared for Sunnie and worked with her grandparents for several years to assist them. Our TCS teachers and administrators love Sunnie and we can assure everyone that this has never been an issue of hair length or boots as it has been portrayed. It has been our constant desire over the last several years to work with this family and to shepherd this precious little girl in a way consistent with traditional values," he said." --cbsnews.com Christian school complains 8-year-old girl isn't girly enough Note: in the first paragraph, I think the article intended to indicate that Kahle was not sufficiently …

"REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office..." "..."I can assure you we will not be having this day (again)," Hayes said." Killjoys. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080407/D8VSOJOG0.html

Being Transgender Is Not a Rare Disorder By Davina Kotulski To my dismay, the mother of a trans child said she'd interviewed dozens of therapists and only one or two had any experience counseling transgender clients and told her that being transgender is a rare disorder...

https://www.freedomnewhampshire.org/a-father-details-his-duty-to-protect-his-transgender-daughter-from-discrimination/?fbclid=IwAR3PVzJeiGJmqAq-gr80uVj7SvFfu8E_LBsx4alrvY8PF99tgsD02AhjDO8

"The LDS Church is facing at least one angry parent- if not more- over the flier that they issued saying that no one should show up for the Halloween ‘trunk-or-treat’ event scheduled for Saturday night wearing cross-gender costumes or masks..." Read the article: Sandy, Utah LDS Church: No Cross-Dressing Your Kids For Halloween

Ontario, Canada “This is bad, bad stuff. First, there is a great deal of medical research proving these profoundly serious drugs have deleterious effects on the brain and can do untold damage. Second, such treatment is not widely endorsed at all, and there are very few doctors who would advise or prescribe such medication. Third, the whole argument rests on the assumption that young people may be "trapped" in the wrong body, rather than being confused, abused, unhappy kids.” - MICHAEL COREN No sex, please This is a pretty darn good example of a well articulated transphobic individual being allowed to spread a healthy dose of hate in the news ~ Beth

Two school districts recognize LGBT Month CNN (blog) The Broward County school district in Florida signed a resolution in September in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Americans. Last week, the Los Angeles school district, the nation's second-largest, also signed on...

Dad: My son wears dresses and that's OK (Video) CNN Video: Actor and father Seth Menachem explains why he's comfortable letting his 2-year-old son wear dresses in public. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2014/07/21/wxp-seth-menachem-my-son-wears-dresses.cnn.html While we don't know whether the child is transgender, what a wonderful world it would be if all parents expressed this same kind of unconditional love and support. ~ Lori

And now, from Texas: To Be, or Not to Be in the Yearbook. A transgender high school student in Texas was told his yearbook photo was rejected because he wore a tuxedo. Michelle Garcia | November 13 2013 5:15 PM ET "The photography studio that took Loredo's senior picture was told to withhold it once school administrators learned that he took it in a tuxedo, Loredo says. After the family lodged a complaint with the district, the superintendent reportedly said the photo would offend the town's "community standards."" --advocate.com Student Omitted From Yearbook — Possibly for Tuxedo

Mitch Kellaway | July 26 2014 3:04 PM ET "...she poignantly recalls how after they discussed her revelation, "I assumed [Grayson] would say 'I have a boy brain.' But he didn't. He said 'I have a boy's soul.'" --advocate.com WATCH: Mormon Mom Helps Transgender Son Accept Himself

"A German teenage boy who always wanted to be a girl underwent a sex-change operation last month, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper. At age 16, Kim Petras -- born Tim Petras -- is believed to be the world's youngest transsexual. She began undergoing hormone therapy when she was 12" Read the article and see photos at http://news.aol.com/health/article/teen-se...m-petras/331320

Steve Helling | 01/07/2015, 7:00 PM EST "Elliot also has had some surprising reactions. "I went off to college expecting there to be zero ignorance, and I was very, very wrong," he says. "People will say inappropriate things and ask inappropriate questions. Some of them are simple curiosity, and they don't realize that they're being offensive. But then there are some people who are trying to be mean. You learn to tell the difference."" -- people.com The DeMita Fletcher Family: What We Learned From Our Transgender Son

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/parenting/the-controversial-costume-that-outraged-moms-made-boy-happy-blog-46-shine.html This mother has the right idea. She will be supporting her son no matter what his choices are in the future. I know that identity and orientation are not 'choices' but this Mom will be supportive of her son. The others are representative of society in general at the moment. The replies are good even though they don't mention the possibility of the boy being transgender and that it is just a one day thing. The main point though that they seem to be getting is the support of the mother and not only for this one day but for the rest of the boy's life. …

I think this is so cool. The boy is 4 years old and loves to wear dresses. The parents are okay with it and the mother wrote a children's book about her son to help the other kids and their parents understand it. There is a box of clothes in the class for the kids to play dress up. The mother came to pick up her son after school and he was always wearing dresses from the box. She thought that maybe there wasn't enough boy's stuff in the box so she brought a bunch and put them in the box. Each day she came to pick him up he would be wearing a dress or something feminine. She asked him about it and he said he just really liked wearing them. She talked to her husband…

09 November 2012 | By Anna Leach "Georgia Kuo thinks LGBT young people in Taiwan are in danger of being too insular and distancing themselves from their parents. She believes that if you give them time and education 80% of Taiwanese parents will accept their LGBT children." --gaystarnews.com Homophobic Parents? ‘We all are, before we learn’

Style Exposed: Transgender Kids, on the "style" cable channel, 30 August at 9:00am central time (US). Synopsis: (Documentary) Three transgender children and their families discuss the challenges. (Two girls, one boy) Original air date was 27 August 2011. Each of these kids have been featured in other programs that explored the lives of transchildren, and the issues the come with being so - you might recognize them.