Transgender Children & Youth

Associated Press - January 5, 2016 "“Kids have full permission to be themselves — as well as educators. Where there’s no wondering, ‘Is this teacher going to be a person for me to be myself with?’” said Zsilavetz, who is transgender and a veteran teacher with nearly 25 years of experience. “This is a place where they (students) can just open up and be the best person they can be.”" -- yahoo.com Groundbreaking High School for LGBT Students to Open

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…

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...

Headmaster bans transgender pupil from exam... so she shows him Equality Act The Sun A TRANSGENDER pupil had to show her headmaster a copy of the Equality Act before he allowed her to sit a GCSE exam while wearing girls' clothes...

High School Student Finds Strength to Come Out as Transsexual Patch.com Katie Forman, 18, identifies herself as a transsexual. She says she's been met with support at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School since coming out a few months ago. A few months ago, Katie Forman donned a simple brown...

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’

I think this is a very timely and important article: My Transgender Daughter Is A Beloved Child Of GodGod doesn’t make mistakes.

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

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?...

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...

Invisible Youth: Samantha Box TIME Transgender people comprise the highest proportion of homeless LGBT youth. In particular, they are often denied access to shelter services, particularly in shelters that segregate clients based on birth sex. Discrimination and lack of identification...

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

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

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…

Parents and schools are seeing increasing numbers of children, some as young as kindergartners, who are challenging the gender into which they were born. By Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporter Every few weeks, Aidan Key might get a call: a little boy in school is dressing as a girl — in frilly tops or pink skirts. A girl in first-grade will be returning from a holiday break as a boy. Public- and private-school administrators and the parents of these kids want guidance navigating such sensitive terrain; they want to help children become comfortable calling a classmate by a new name, or know how and when to refer to another student as he or she. Ther…

"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

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

October 26th, 2012 Growing up gay is not easy, for any generation. Baby boomers and their LGBT elders, for example, lived at a time when information about LGBT issues was almost non-existent and when there were no role models on television or in popular culture. Many of them grew up not knowing another gay person in their school or community … until they moved to the big city and found a welcoming community in bars like the Stonewall Inn in New York City or The Club in San Diego. -sdgln.com LGBT youth who are out are happier, but still face serious obstacles

June 13, 2015 "Why did she think Ms. Cox would come in through those particular doors? M. ignored my question and stood alone at the far end of the room, her back to me, her eyes glued to the doors." -- thegailygrind.com Find Out What Happened When A 7-Year-Old Trans Girl Met The Amazing Laverne Cox

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

A mother has written a frank open letter to the man who chased her son out of the men’s room after mistaking him for a girl 20 March 2013 | By Dan Beeson "The mother of a young boy has written a sarcastic open letter to the man who chased a boy out of a bathroom after he mistook her for a girl." --gaystarnews.com Mom defends son mistaken for a girl in open letter

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

Richland High School senior Kasey Caron has turned to the media to pressure his high school to let him run for homecoming king. BY Sunnivie Brydum | September 09 2013 3:33 PM ET "But for the bulk of his four years at Richland High School in Johnstown, Caron's teachers and classmates have recognized him as male. When a guidance counselor suggested he enter his name for homecoming king at the beginning of the school year, Caron thought Richland was finally ready to affirm his gender identity." --advocate.com Trans Teen Takes on Pa. School to Run for Homecoming King

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.