Transgender Children & Youth

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 "Under the agreement, approved Tuesday evening by the district’s school board, the school district will take a number of steps to ensure that the student, who has consistently and uniformly presented as a boy at school and in all other aspects of his life for several years, will be treated like other male students while attending school in the district." --lgbtqnation.com Calif. school district settles discrimination complaint by transgender student

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

Just came across this post in Medium. Wow, do I understand. I remember wishing I had a dress at 3 and I can also recall Fallow's shame for his dreams. He's lucky to have his father: https://medium.com/@chdwck/my-son-in-a-dress-is-not-a-political-statement-b5556269ab66

By OWN Posted: 07/15/2013 11:16 am EDT | Updated: 07/16/2013 10:00 am EDT "At age 14, Kaden started taking testosterone gel and followed it up with testosterone shots when he was 16. "Testosterone shots definitely made a difference -- in my muscle mass, I can grow a full beard... definitely the voice," Kaden says. "It's a nice feeling that I have a deeper voice."" --huffingtonpost.com Transgender Child Who Wanted A Sex Change Talks About Life Now That He's In His 20s (w/Video)

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’

After talking to my best friend and her mom I want to start transitioning. My friend started three years ago and she looks so much different. Her mom is very supportive of her decision but I know my parents won't be. I haven't even told them how I feel. My friend and her mom said that they will help me as much as they can. What should I do? I don't want to wait until I've fully gone through puberty as a male to start to transition to female because I know it will make it much more difficult.

See for reference; OTTAWA “The historic Girl Guides of Canada is wrestling with a very modern question: Whether to allow transgender girls — children who were born male but identify as girls — into their troops.” - Kris Sims Girl Guides of Canada considering transgender members

"Earlier this week, her mother told the Worcester News that while children had largely accepted her daughter, other parents and local adults had reacted badly, calling the girl a “freak”." - by Jessica Geen http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/09/14/transgender-girl-10-tells-of-classmates-reactions/

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

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

Transgender children focus of Rainbow Center lecture UConn Daily Campus Yesterday in the Rainbow Center, Dr. Barbara Gurr gave a lecture with a very personal undertone about the parental view of transgender children. Her daughter Haley began at the age of three to assert that she was not a boy, Harry, but truly a girl.

Wayne Maines, 04.11.2012, 4:27 pm "I cannot explain what transgender means to me in a 1,000-word essay, but I can begin to open a dialogue and share a few stories that may help others understand what it means to raise a transgender child." What Does Transgender Mean? One Semi-Conservative Dad's Perspective

KAMENSK-URAL, Russia — A network of loosely organized groups of Russian ultra-nationalists are targeting LGBT youth for bullying and assault by creating fake social media profiles and gay personals to attract unsuspecting victims. http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/07/russian-extremists-using-social-media-to-target-attack-lgbt-youth/

I think most people care about kids. I hope so anyway. Do I really need to go into the suicide statistics? Do I really need to talk about the mental heath issues caused by long term stress? It breaks my heart when I speak to children who face the fate I endure. It's simply not needed. Please help by doing what is so easy.

Transgender Youth – Fad or Fact? "Increasing numbers of youth today question their gender, and there is a corresponding increase in the number of ways people choose to describe and name their gender..." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-youth-fad-or-fact_us_5a3fee20e4b0df0de8b06636

Transgender teens make a beautiful couple (Includes Photos and Video) Both Katie Hill and her boyfriend, Arin Andrews, are transgender. Eighteen-year-old Katie was known as Luke for the first 15 years of her life, the son of a Marine colonel. And Arin, 16, was born a girl called Emerald who won beauty contests and adored...

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…

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLISJUNE 16, 2015 In a cozy cottage decorated with butterflies to symbolize transformation, Katherine Boone was recovering in April from the operation that had changed her, in the most intimate part of her body, from a biological male into a female. It was not easy. She retched for days afterward. She could hardly eat. She did not seem empowered; she seemed regressed. “I just want to hold Emma,” she said in her darkened room at the bed-and-breakfast in New Hope, Pa., run by the doctor who performed the operation in a hospital nearby. Emma is her black and white cat, at her home outside Syracuse in central New York State, 250 miles away. Her childlike r…

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

I just found this article on Forbes, read it, and then watched the YouTube video. Below is the link to the article and below that is a link to the YouTube video because it can't be viewed in full screen (for some reason) on Forbes. I posted it here in the youth section because I feel it would be so valuable for any young person to watch, trans or not: Article: VIDEO: Watch Youth Soccer Coach Come Out As Transgender To His Players Video: Authenticity: Portland Community Football Club Founder and Director, Kaig Lightner, shares his identity of being a transgender man with the players.

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

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

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...

was very happy that anderson showed he cared for our community in this. this by far my fav.

Jan 31, 7:16 AM EST By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- A New Jersey woman whose son was asked to leave his Boy Scouts troop after leaders found out he is transgender said she has mixed emotions about the organization's decision to allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys-only programs. The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that enrollment in its boys-only programs will now be based on the gender a child or parent lists on his application to become a scout, rather than the gender listed on the child's birth certificate. More here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRANSGENDER_BOY_SCOUTS?SITE=SCAND&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL…