Transgender Children & Youth

Sebastion Malo | Monday, 26 September 2016 21:51 GMT "The plaintiff's attorney, Alison Pennington, with the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center, said she believed it was the first case to claim an underage transgender person had suffered sex-based discrimination under the Affordable Care Act." -- news.trust.org Mother sues U.S. hospital for discriminating against dead transgender son

thesun.co.uk, no doubt, has got to be about as insensative, pompous, judgemental and bigotted as FOXNews. Note the overall demeaning tone of the article. The sub-headline, "story that will shock every parent." Quotations around "he" in a few places. Then there's the caption under a picture of Jake and his sister, Olivia, "Sisters... Olivia with her new little "brother."" "Sisters?" Really? The article also starts out as if Jake's parents are villians. Like there is something wrong with them. As if they are doing something wrong. Some people, like the author of this article, Sarah Arnold, shouldn't be allowed to report news. In fact, media such as thesun.c…

New teacher resource aims to support transgender and transsexual students Canada NewsWire (press release) OTTAWA, May 16, 2012 /CNW/ - On the eve of the International Day Against Homophobia, the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) is proud to release its latest educational resource, Supporting Transgender and Transsexual students in K-12 Schools...

Teo Bishop, 10/11/2012 8:51am It snowed last night. First of the season. There wasn't quite enough to break the branches like last year, but it was enough to remind us that the season of fall, as much as I'd prefer it last forever, is simply a transition. What we're witnessing in the seasonal display of colors is the letting go of something we've grown accustomed to. -huffingtonpost.com Trans Is A Teacher for All Of Us

Introducing Our Parents' Generation To Transgender Children Can Be Hard... Huffington Post I thought to myself, 'I wonder if he is ready to hear about transgender children?' But as usual, I decided to take it slow to see where the conversation might lead us...

Here Are The Best States To Be A Transgender High School Athlete Deadspin As reported by the Times earlier this month, new legislation in California could make that state the first to legally guarantee the rights of transgender high school athletes...

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

by David Yi Katherine, a gentle 19-year old from Brooklyn, is many things: Bangladeshi American, an avid gamer, Muslim, a future programmer. But one thing she is not: human. At least, that’s what she's been told by the family who rejected her. In the cramped apartment she shares with her parents and siblings, Katherine is a ghost. Virtually ignored, she spends her days invisible in the hallway, the only place she doesn’t get in the way of her mother who is seldom outside the kitchen, her father who spends his days in the living room, and her siblings, who hide themselves away in their small room. Katherine doesn’t have a room, let alone a bed she can call her own. “I sle…

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

“A whopping 70% say they want to be notified before kids are taught about sensitive issues, such as specific sexual behaviours or gender identity.” - Daniel Proussalidis http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/19/parents-demand-say-in-school-sex-ed-survey

http://youtu.be/xdpTXtz75Aw A mother in Queenland has decided to let her nine-year-old son live as a girl. Parenting expert Dr Michael Carr-Gregg shares his thoughts.

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

Posted 05.18.2012 7:01pm, Updated 7:02pm ""It didn't say anywhere in the code of conduct or the dress code that boys can't dress like girls," he said to Stone. "I feel annoyed that they would go out of their way to make a problem just with me wearing a skirt."" -huffingtonpost.com Warren Evans, Skirt-Wearing Maryland Boy, Suspended From Calvert High School (w/Video) Also, Exclusive: Male Student Suspended for Wearing a Skirt

Ofsted inspectors are now quizzing English schools about their homophobic bullying poliies 17 November 2013 | Tris Reid-Smith "Ofsted, the official inspectors of English schools, is now investigating whether schools they visit are fighting anti-gay bullying and teaching about same-sex families." -gaystarnews.com Inspectors start forcing English shools to tackle gay and trans hate

By Rachel Thompson LONDON — A city council has sent a letter to thousands of parents asking them to support the gender their children "most identify with" when confirming school places. The letter, sent this week, requested that parents help their children "choose" their gender identity, asking them to leave the gender section of the form blank if their child is non-binary. http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/gender-identity-children-brighton/#mB.b05sVaEqr

Leslie Lagerstrom 05.14.2012 5:03pm Huffington Post "I'm not right, " my old-souled 8-year-old child says...These words, simple yet profound, slice through my flesh, piercing a hole in my heart, causing me pain that's greater than I can bear." It's a boy

Posted: 10/17/2012 1:59 pm Updated: 10/17/2012 2:16 pm An Illinois anti-gay Christian hate group voiced its condemnation of a newly affirmed school policy for transgender-inclusion, claiming the "feckless school board has made a decision to accommodate, not the needs of gender-confused teens, but their disordered desires." The East Aurora school board voted Oct. 15 to approve a policy that addresses the needs and rights of transgender and other non gender-conforming students, with policies such as allowing the student to use the restroom he or she associates with and using the modified name he or she has chosen, The Beacon-News reported. -huffingtonpost.com Il…

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

Zack Ford Apr 22, 2016 8:00 am "Just because the student deserves to be safe and respected, wrote parent Vince West in October, “that does not mean, nor does the law imply, that we have to celebrate gender non-conformism (or any controversial moral difference) in school (or anywhere).”" -- thinkprogress.org It Takes A Village To Bully A Transgender Kindergartner

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 ...

Transgender At Five Washington Post While autism is more common than transgender issues (or is it?), society is far from embracing those who differ from the norm. To get back on topic, parents who support their children no matter what are to be commended...

Drug treatments for transgender kids pose difficult choices for parents, doctors Washington Post The puberty blockers are given to transgender girls who are 10 to 12 years old to keep their bodies from maturing and menstruating. Boys receive them from 12 to 14 to stave off a flood of testosterone. Suspending puberty gives the kids more time to...

German transgender girl to be institutionalized by German courts Examiner.com A German court has decided an 11-year-old transgender German girl should be institutionalized rather than live her life as a girl. Having been born a boy, Alexis Kaminsky, has always felt she was a girl. When Alexis' parents decided to get divorced...