Transgender Children & Youth

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

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.

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...

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

A school in Northeast Portland has introduced unisex toilets to cater for transgender and other gender non-conforming students – though the bathrooms will be available to anyone who wants to use them 24 March 2013 | By Andrew Potts " Northeast Portland’s Grant High School has introduced six unisex bathrooms across its grounds to cater to transgender and other gender non-conforming students who may feel uncomfortable using sex segregated bathrooms." --gaystarnews.com Oregon high school introduces unisex toilets for transgender students ________________________________ "Grant High School, named for the Civil War general Ulysses S Grant, is Portland’s largest hi…

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...

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…

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

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…

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)

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…

"Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born identical twins, but from the start each had a distinct personality... The process of remaking a family of identical twin boys into a family with one boy and one girl has been heartbreaking and harrowing and, in the end, inspiring - a lesson in the courage of a child, a child who led them, and in the transformational power of love..." Read the news article: Led by the child who simply knew

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...

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’

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…

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

By: Jase Peeples 10.22.2012 What should a parent do when their son wants to be a Disney princess or their daughter wants to dress like Spider-Man for Halloween? ABC news magazine recently conducted an interesting experiment by sending actors into a Halloween costume shop to play out this exact situation. Hidden cameras throughout the store caught the reactions of several unknowing onlookers who all had something to say about the cross-dressing kids. -gay.net My Son Wants to Be a Princess for Halloween. What Should I Do? (w/Video) ___________________________________________ And for us older people - what will you be doing for Halloween? While you think…

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

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?

New TDSB policy accommodates transgender students, teachers CTV News TORONTO - The Toronto District School Board says transgender students must be accommodated according to whichever gender they feel they identify with. The board released a set of guidelines earlier this week saying students have the right to use...

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:

A transgender child's victory Salon A transgender third-grader in New Hampshire has won the right to be treated as a girl in her school community — including being allowed to use the girls' room. Score one for tolerance, and the increasing strides grown-ups are making in understanding...

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...

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?