Transgender Children & Youth

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

Dear 40-Year-Old Me

Dear Family and Friends: My Son Is Really My Daughter Huffington Post My last post talked about "Going Stealth" about my transgender child's identity at school and in our community. Deciding whom to tell is a complicated, risk-filled and dynamic process. Dynamic because at different ages, the risks and rules change... Here is a link to our discussion about this father's first article that appeared in Huffington Post:

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.

10 June 2017 | by Rafaella Gunz "Replacing old laws determining child protection, foster care, and adoption service, this Act requires all children’s services and judges to consider a child’s ‘race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, family diversity, disability, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.’" -- gaystarnews This new Canadian law considers denying a child's gender identity a form of abuse

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

Sounds like some ultra-conservative organization that has taken a name to fool or confuse people into thinking they are getting information or advice from The Amer Academy of Pediatrics. I wonder if people should start asking a doctor which one of the two groups they belong to? Parents, family and friends of transgender children should watch this video --

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

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...

VIDEO: Emma Hayes was just five years old when she told her parents that despite being born a boy she wanted to live and dress as a girl. Diagnosed with gender dysphoria, Emma is among a growing number of children across the country who insist they're trapped in the wrong body. http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/videoindex.aspx?uuid=1593fcd9-70f1-4905-ae6a-ac60bb5bf3e8

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

"Events are being organised in London as part of the UK's first ever Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Adoption and Fostering Week. It comes as gay adopters and foster carers are being hailed by social workers for their significant strengths in a survey..." Read the news article: Events held for LGBT adoption week

Exclusive: Southwest Florida teens search for sexual identity, tolerance The News-Press (video by Andrew West/news-press.com) Haylie Adair, 19, left, shares a moment with her girlfriend, Jessie Rankin, 18, at Visuality, a center for homosexual, bisexual and transgender young people. Adair and Rankin are students at FGCU...

Families of Gender Nonconforming and Transgender Kids to Convene in Berkeley SF Weekly (blog) Berkeley will be hosting the 2012 Gender Spectrum Family Conference, a "gathering dedicated solely to the needs of gender nonconforming...

The words I want to say aren't allowed here, but I'm sure you guys would all feel the same after watching this.

Fort Myers center opens doors to LGBT youth The News-Press Visuality, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people center opened Monday 3/5/2012. (video by Andrew West/news-press.com) The non-profit Visuality opened its doors Monday in Royal Palm Plaza in Fort Myers.

A transgender teen in Virginia is fighting for the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity. Gavin Grimm, Transgender Teen, Fighting to Use Men's Restroom at School

Gay and Transgender Homeless Youth Face Huge Obstacles Center For American Progress Researchers fielded the survey in late 2011 and early 2012 to better understand the capacity of organizations serving homeless young people to provide services to gay and transgender youth. The survey also analyzed the prevalence of gay and transgender...

New York -- Tiffany "LIFE" Cocco has been homeless for seven years, living on park benches, stoops and New York City's A train... Her parents died of AIDS in the 1980s and so Cocco was raised by an aunt and uncle who disapproved of how she dressed and led her life -- as a lesbian..." Read the news article (VIDEO): Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Kids Struggle on the Streets Here are some sobering statistics from the article: 1 in 45 American children 18 and under -- 1.6 million -- live on the street, in homeless shelters, motels or with other families last year. About 20 to 40 percent of youth who leave home to live on the streets identify themselves as lesb…

I came across a very interesting, well thought out perspective. I agree. Any thoughts? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pre-k-teacher-attacks-idea-of-childhood-innocence-claims-toddlers-not-too-young-for-sexuality-discussion/ar-AA17oiVB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=06f2bc52640845aab7907bb320b322a8

Hello Dr. Spack, My name is Erica Elizabeth Ravenwood. I have been, among other things, an advocate for transgender children. I myself am transgender and I recognize the immense need, my obligation, to try to save transgender children from living my fate. I ran across a lecture of your's on YouTube. It was posted by a parent's group and was listed after one of my own videos. I was thrilled to find we agree on every point. I would like to share my work with you. I have no degree. No formal schooling. Bullying took that right from me. Still I would be very pleased if you would take a look. Though denied the chance to learn in a classroom setting I have been blessed to stand…

I Was Promised a Pony! Catherine Oliver Posted: 04/19/2012 11:02 am This blog is dedicated to trans*, bigender, and gender-variant youth. "I always knew I wasn't like others. I didn't want a boyfriend, and I wore clothes that the other girls called "boy's clothes," all the time. I played in the mud, ran after soccer balls, and climbed trees. "Tomboy," they said."

While driving along the Alaska Highway last summer I happened to find a podcast called "How to Be a Girl: Daily Life With My Transgender Daughter" and quickly fell in love with the posts. I especially liked this one, and listened to it more than once: Episode VII: THE FACTS (about transgender kids) Marlo (the mother) and I got to know each other over emails, and I was so surprised to learn that she and her daughter live in Seattle. She, her daughter, and I have become friends! I'm so thrilled to know them and others in the community. It really makes me feel like I've come home. The three of us even went out for sushi last night! But some time ago Marlo was interviewed by …

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...

A youngster of 12 who was born a girl but lives as a boy is devastated after his GP refused to give him vital drugs to halt puberty. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/girl-who-lives-boy-denied-2241965