Transgender Children & Youth

SDGLN Staff, March 5th, 2013 "SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has introduced the School Success and Opportunity Act, Assembly Bill 1266, co-authored by Sens. Mark Leno and Ricardo Lara. The bill will ensure that California public schools understand their responsibility for the success and well-being of all students, including transgender students, and will allow transgender students to fully participate in all school activities, programs, and facilities." --sdgln.com California bill would protect transgender students

Transgender kids get help navigating a difficult path Los Angeles Times Amber is one of an increasing number who are getting specialized care. The 12-year-old takes puberty-blocking drugs and hopes to have gender reassignment...

To comply with league policy, student must have undergone gender reassignment surgery Staff Reports | Thursday, February 20, 2014 "RICHMOND, Va. — The governing body of high school sports in Virginia has sanctioned the participation of transgender athletes at the state’s 313 high schools, on the condition they undergo gender reassignment surgery." --lgbtqnation.com Transgender high school athletes approved by Va. governing board ____________________________________________ Okay...is the Virginia governing board really that ignorant? Or do they think we are that ignorant?

Written by Louis Weisberg, Staff writer | Sep 13, 2013 "The new policy was adopted in response to an incident involving a transgender elementary school student. Parents complained after the student used a girl’s restroom at Summit Elementary School on Sept. 6. Apparently, they believed she should have used the boy’s room." --wisconsingazette.com Oconomowoc School District adopts 'gender-neutral' restroom policy

Aisha Moodie-Mills - Center for American Progress in LGBTQ Nation, December 21st, 2012 According to a report this summer by the Center for American Progress: ....Gay and transgender youth, particularly gender nonconforming girls, are up to three times more likely to experience harsh disciplinary treatment by school administrators than their heterosexual counterparts. ....As with racial disparities in school discipline, these higher rates of punishment do not correlate to higher rates of misbehavior among gay and transgender youth. ....LGBT youth make up 13-15 percent of the juvenile justice system, even though they make-up only 5–7 percent of the population overall, a…

By Victoria Derbyshire 7 April 2015 The number of children aged 10 and under who have been referred to NHS support services to help deal with transgender feelings has more than quadrupled in the last six years, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Here is the story of two of the youngest transgender children in the UK - with permission from their parents and with the support of the children's schools. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32037397

He's Gay, He's Straight, He's Transgender... He's Roscoe! Huffington Post Another immediately jumps to pushing him into a transgender role. Some just think he's weird. How about this: he's just Roscoe. As our own children are bombarded with increasingly sexualized images and iconography from an ever-younger age, the pressure...

Pennsylvania High School Teacher Shows Video Mocking Gay Student and His Transgender Prom Date By Andy Towle Jared Swank, a senior high school student in Hanover, Pennsylvania, says he was mocked by a teacher who shared a video she took of Swank and his transgender prom date to other students...

Transgender storytelling for kids at CofS venue The Christian Institute Children as young as five are being targeted to take part in a homosexual and transgender storytelling workshop at a Church of Scotland venue this weekend. On Saturday youngsters have the opportunity to “explore the diverse makeup of lesbian, gay, ...

"Two Fort Collins High School students say they don't feel welcome on campus because they say they're not allowed to use the restrooms they want. Both identify themselves as transgender. Sixteen-year-old Dionne Malikowski was born male, but she now identifies as transgender. Her friend Kurt Peters, also 16, was born female and says he is transgender as well..." Read the article (with video): Transgender student says she was suspended for using ladies' restroom

“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

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

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...

14 May 2015 For children who may be questioning their gender identity, the world can be an confusing place. But for one long weekend, some children can freely express themselves alongside their parents and siblings at a camp designed specifically for them. Their experiences have been captured by photographer Lindsay Morris, who has been involved with the camp since it began in 2007. Now her images appear in the book You are You. She recently she spoke to the BBC about her work. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32602868

last night I went to a trans meeting here in Reno and got to meet the mother of a child who made the news concerning Cee Cee and the bathroom situation at a school. I felt both honored and blessed to get to know this mothers story about her child going through transition and the fact the mother is now dating a transman. I tried to find the post on here, cause i swear i thought there was one on her..but couldnt find it. Cee Cee who is 9yrs old was just the happiest girl, running around the pizza place where we had the meeting at, playing video games. http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Nine-Year-Old-Transgender-Declares-Identity-268764841.html?device=phone

Sara Malm Published: 10:55 EST, 23 October 2012; Updated: 11:10 EST, 23 October 2012 A 15-year-old school girl is determined to drop 16 stone in order for her to have gender reassignment surgery. Raven El Messaoudi has lived as a girl for ten months since coming out as transgender to her family and schoolfriends, and now takes hormone blockers to stop her from adopting male features. The teenager, from Johannesburg, South Africa, used to live on a diet of McDonald's, fried chicken, and 14 eggs-on-toast a day, is on a strict diet in preparation for her surgery at the age of 21. -dailymail.co.uk The 26 [stone] transgender teen who wants to drop 16 [stone] so h…

i think people should get to know their options that could (help) them not have to grow facial and body hair!! i am older now, but did they all know in the 1980s that hormone treatments at puberty could keep people from the need to deal with that kind of hair? i suppose there are other (important) issues to consider for some people. but still! ...not the time it takes as much as the difficulty of doing it perfect consistently and the irritation. i have other skin issues and stuff that maybe complicate it.

Nicholas R. Eaton and Kristina Olson and Aidan Key| February 11 2015 6:02 AM ET "While this media exposure holds promise to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and increase visibility of transgender individuals, there has been a dearth of scientific research on this community. We started the TransYouth Project to address some of these gaps in the research literature, with a particular focus on the lives and identities of transgender children and their families." --advocate.com Op-ed: Science Holds the Key to Transgender Equality _______________________________________ "No one knows what percentage of the population is transgender, but it is likely less than 1 percent…

“The Sunday Times over the weekend had a feature about six children suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who are being given drugs to delay the onset of puberty, giving them more time to decide whether they wish to change sex later in life. The operations are being paid for by the taxpayers, although I don't think that's the issue. If the state can pay several thousands to save a person from a life of misery and eventual suicide then I for one think that is money well-spent. And yet the strange thing is that, taking aside the fact that “blockers” may affect cognitive ability and bone density, there's actually no accepted medical proof or consensus that sex change oper…

In the Life Groundbreaking Episode: Journeys of Transgender Children & Their Families Rainbow Times New York, NY – This month, the award-winning newsmagazine In The Life will debut “Becoming Me,” featuring eight families with transgender and gender nonconforming children ranging in ages from 5 to 25. Is it a boy or a girl?...

Justin Graeber, Posted Feb 18, 2013 @ 10:53 AM "BROCKTON -- The state's new rules on how schools should handle transgender students are touching a nerve in Brockton, where more than a decade ago a biologically male eighth-grader, who identified as a female, sued the city after school officials insisted that the student dress like a boy and not use the girls' bathroom." --wickedlocal.com New Rules for Treatment of Trans-students ____________________________________________ "...the Massachusetts Family Institute...said allowing transgender boys to use girls’ bathrooms, and vice versa, endangers other students and violates their privacy." MFI needs to learn the c…

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/mom-of-transgender-9-year-old-shares-inspiring-video-of-her-son-s-journey-193825126.html

A teenage girl was suspended from her California high school for failure to adhere to the dress code for female students in her district, something she did to shine light on mixed messages she's received from officials. BY Parker Marie Molloy | January 14 2014 10:42 AM ET "In an act of protest, Staceyy Holidayy, a 15-year-old transgender girl, wore a partially open-back top to school last week, resulting in a two-day suspension for violating the dress code standards for female students at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, Calif." --advocate.com Calif. Trans Student Suspended Following Act of Protest

"Earlier this week, her mother told the Worcester News that while children had largely accepted her daughter, other parents and local adults had reacted badly, calling the girl a “freak”." - by Jessica Geen http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/09/14/transgender-girl-10-tells-of-classmates-reactions/

Transgender Youth – Fad or Fact? "Increasing numbers of youth today question their gender, and there is a corresponding increase in the number of ways people choose to describe and name their gender..." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-youth-fad-or-fact_us_5a3fee20e4b0df0de8b06636