Transgender Children & Youth

Amazing Women Helping One Dad Help His Daughter Huffington Post As I attended the Transgender Health Conferencein April, it became apparent that "Transyouth parents" are asking for help. As numerous dads struggle with how to communicate and be part of the team, women have often carried the load alone...

Dominique Mosbergen Posted: 11/14/2012 2:44 pm EST Updated: 11/14/2012 3:34 pm EST According to the Torstar News Service, Spencer, who began transitioning from female to male in the 10th grade, was bullied at his old high school. Unable to cope with the strain, he moved in with his sister and enrolled at Clarke High School. But right off the bat, Spencer says, the school administration made it difficult for him to make a smooth transition. --huffingtonpost.com James Spencer, Transgender Teen, Allegedly Denied Access To Men's Restroom In School (with Video)

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...

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...

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…

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...

Minnesota “Maxx Flaa, a 2010 graduate of Albert Lea High School, knows this first hand. Maxx is transgender, meaning he was born biologically female but identifies himself as a male. He legally changed his name from Maddie to Maxxwell last August, but didn’t come out as transgender until after high school.” - Kelli Lageson Teen hopes to help others like himself

Lambda Legal, June 12, 2012 "The Human Rights Law is far more specific and explicitly inclusive than other antidiscrimination laws, and provides remedies and procedures that other laws do not. Without it, New York public school students who are harassed or discriminated against, including LGBT youth, lack adequate state law protection." -Tom Ude, Lambda Legal Sr Staff Atty NY Court Says Human Rights Law Doesn't Cover Students

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...

The Canadian hockey team invited transgender athlete Cory Oskam to skate alongside Canucks goalie Cory Schneider during the national anthem on the teen's 16th birthday. Sunnivie Brydum, January 31 2013 6:05 PM ET "Cory Oskam, a 10th-grader and transgender man who has been on hormone blockers since age 9, usually plays goalie for his Brittania Secondary School. Last week Oskam was invited onto the ice alongside the professional goalie for the rendition of the national anthem, "Oh, Canada," as part of Minor Hockey Week at Vancouver's Rogers Arena." --advocate.com Vancouver Canucks Welcome Trans Goalie Onto Ice for His Sweet 16

Mother of Transgender Toddler Gets a Lesson in Love Advocate.com My child is now ten. He transitioned at the age of five. By eighteen months I knew that this child, my fourth daughter, was different from the first three. In particular, she was very boyish, a characteristic which I had never thought about much before...

Camp unites transgender kids on outskirts Boston Globe On the volleyball court, a boy spiked a shot and his teammates cheered. Nearby, some campers lay on mats, doing yoga stretches. A girl executed a series of cartwheels. Over in drama, the kids performed a “cranky old lady” talk show; everyone cracked up...

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...

MSNBC Dateline - Transgender children in America encounter new crossroads with medicine (video) NBC -- It's unclear how many children around the world have felt trapped in their own bodies the way 11-year-old Josie Romero has struggled with hers. Born a boy but living socially as a girl since age 6, Josie...

Leslie Lagerstrom, 08.01.2012, 4:30pm "As I studied the photo of three young children playing house, a sick feeling began to grow in my stomach. In front of me were two girls engaged in traditional-gender-role play, happily assuming the coveted parts of mother and child, and then there was Sam, complete with a fake beard, sportcoat, top hat, and a grin from ear to ear." -huffingtonpost.com XX vs. XY

Michelle Garcia, August 28 2012 8:03 PM ET "A German father said that he sometimes wears skirts to support his son, who also prefers to wear skirts and dresses." -advocate.com Dad Wears Dress in Solidarity With Dress-Loving Son

Julie Ross, 08/15/2012 2:59pm "This might be a good time to tell you that my daughter Jessie spent the first three and a half months of school -- not to mention the prior nine years -- as George: a complicated, funny, dyslexic and wildly artistic child. In December of fourth grade she socially transitioned from male to female and finished out the year with a seamlessness that no one could have anticipated." -huffingtonpost.com What's in a Name?

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…

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…

Dad Protects Son from Bullies by Wearing a Skirt. Guess What? It Works. Nils Pickert's 5-year-old son likes wearing dresses. If anyone thinks that's odd they can take it up with Nils. He's the guy in the skirt...

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

Leslie Lagerstrom 07.09.2012 "With situations like this, we have found that it is good to involve an intermediary -- good for the people we are interacting with, because they do not have to worry about offending us with questions, comments, or concerns, and even better for us, because rejection from an intermediary somehow hurts less than receiving it directly from the source. With that in mind, we enlisted the help of a camp chaperone... "And so we waited. And worried. And obsessed. And wondered if it would be possible for these people to give Sam a much-deserved chance to go to camp just like everyone else." -huffingtonpost.com A Happy Camper

Posted by Natalie Hope McDonald on 10/9/2012 at 7:30AM GLSEN‘s 2011 National School Climate Survey is an eye opener. It’s the only national study that has examined the experiences of LGBT students in America’s schools for the past decade. And while there’s been a decline in anti-gay language over the years, the survey of thousands of students from all 50 states and the District of Colombia found that the majority of LGBT students are faced with many obstacles in school that can impact both academic performance and personal well being. -blogs.phillymag.com What’s It Really Like Being Openly LGBT 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...

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’