Transgender Children & Youth

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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...

Sebastion Malo | Monday, 26 September 2016 21:51 GMT "The plaintiff's attorney, Alison Pennington, with the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center, said she believed it was the first case to claim an underage transgender person had suffered sex-based discrimination under the Affordable Care Act." -- news.trust.org Mother sues U.S. hospital for discriminating against dead transgender son

Mountain View schools team up with LGBTQ education group Peninsula Press “Students receive very little health education as it is, so topics such as gender identity and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning issues very rarely get time.” Ross finds that most public-school education about LGBTQ issues are either

"Primary school children should be taught about transsexuals from the age of 10 and have the option of jabs that delay the onset of puberty, according to Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham, one of the stars of Channel 4's My Transsexual Summer documentary series..." Read the article: My Transsexual Summer star calls for pre-teens to be given time to resolve gender confusion

For those who are going to have kids, or those who already have had kids since coming out as transgender, how would you name your kids? Would you give them gender typical names, or nongender specific names? Stereotypical Gender Specific - Steve, Lindsay, Johnathan, Julia, etc. Nongender Specific Names - Kelly, Ashley, Aaron/Erin, Jen, Alex, Adrian(ne), etc. None of us know if that child is cis or LGBTQ, until they let us know. Obviously it's known what they were assigned at birth. And on that also, would you use specific pronouns? "This is my son/daughter." Or would you use nongender terms? "This is my child." I don't have children (that I'm aware of) …

The stunning issue coincides with a new documentary.12/15/2016 04:32 pm ETIn what’s being touted as a first for the magazine, National Geographic will kick off 2017 by featuring a transgender person on its cover. A stunning photo of 9-year-old Avery Jackson will appear on the subscriber’s edition of the magazine... More here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-geographic-transgender-cover_us_5852d77de4b054eeaea229c0

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…

New teacher resource aims to support transgender and transsexual students Canada NewsWire (press release) OTTAWA, May 16, 2012 /CNW/ - On the eve of the International Day Against Homophobia, the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) is proud to release its latest educational resource, Supporting Transgender and Transsexual students in K-12 Schools...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/02/12/new-transgender-hospital-program-introduced-to-dallas/

"The LDS Church is facing at least one angry parent- if not more- over the flier that they issued saying that no one should show up for the Halloween ‘trunk-or-treat’ event scheduled for Saturday night wearing cross-gender costumes or masks..." Read the article: Sandy, Utah LDS Church: No Cross-Dressing Your Kids For Halloween

Touching portraits of non-gender-conforming children at a summer camp captured by photographer Lindsay Morris 26 July 2013 | By Anna Leach " Morris' series of photographs titled You Are You is a sensitive portray of trans children expressing themselves. She hopes to publish a book of the photographs next year and will use profits to start a foundation to support the camp." --gaystarnews.com Non-gender-conforming kids caught on camera

Not just boy and girl; more teens identify as transgender http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/boy-girl-teens-identify-transgender-52840089

Here's a delightful story and link to NPR's audio report on Allie, a transgender 8-year old girl. "[People say,] 'You know I'm not against anyone that's transgender, I just don't want them using my same bathroom.' I mean that's like saying, 'I like black people, I just don't want them to sit at my lunch counter,' " Jen says. Allie doesn't know much about the debate over bathrooms. School and dance classes keep her busy, along with the lessons she shares with neighbors about what it means to be transgender. When The Kid Becomes The Teacher: On What It Means To Be Transgender

I hope you're able to access and read this article in today's New York Times: As Attention Grows, Transgender Children’s Numbers Are Elusive Progress...

It helps me to read about other people's experiences and I imagine this article (I'll add links to the rest of the series as it's published) may help trans/questioning youth and their families: Trans Teen's War With His Body Started When He Was Just 10

What I Learned as a Parent of a Transgender Child As a pediatrician and mother, I thought I knew a lot about parenting. But I was blindsided by my daughter’s coming out as trans, and that first year was riddled with mistakes.

Mary Emily O'Hara | June 26, 2018 "Ohio House Bill 658 would turn school employees, psychologists, and social workers into spies of a sort; the legislation mandates that they disclose to parents if a minor approaches them with questions about gender identity or seeks mental health care for gender dysphoria. And if they don’t inform the child’s parents — regardless of concern for the safety or wellbeing of the child — they would face felony charges." -- them.us An Ohio Bill Would Charge Therapists With a Felony if They Don't Out Trans Kids to Their Parents Be sure to also check out the article linked in this one about the boy whose parents refused to support h…

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…

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…

By Rachel Thompson LONDON — A city council has sent a letter to thousands of parents asking them to support the gender their children "most identify with" when confirming school places. The letter, sent this week, requested that parents help their children "choose" their gender identity, asking them to leave the gender section of the form blank if their child is non-binary. http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/gender-identity-children-brighton/#mB.b05sVaEqr

“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

I was delighted to happen across this EXCELLENT publication last night, and highly recommend it. I'm posting it here but it could just as well been posted within the Significant Others section or several others here in TG Guide. Very well written, articulate, and illustrated, with links to other resources and information: http://lgbtweekly.com/2014/12/10/pflag-national-unveils-new-guide-to-being-a-trans-ally/ Emma

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…

Raising a Transgender Child: A Star is Born Huffington Post (blog) On the front page of The Boston Globe there was an article about identical twin boys, one of whom had identified as transgender and was now living fully as a girl. I, not surprisingly, was raptly reading the story when George came up behind me...