Transgender Children & Youth

Mitch Kellaway | July 08 2015 6:06 PM ET ""We were all happy to adjust around Penel," Patterson shared with women's lifestyle magazine Family Circle, in an issue hitting shelves next week. "Our immediate family has only ever known Penel as he is — we've never asked him to change his ways. So we simply had to change our language around him."" -- advocate.com Two Black Trans Boys, Two N.Y. Families, and Boundless Love

A youngster of 12 who was born a girl but lives as a boy is devastated after his GP refused to give him vital drugs to halt puberty. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/girl-who-lives-boy-denied-2241965

Fort Myers center opens doors to LGBT youth The News-Press Visuality, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people center opened Monday 3/5/2012. (video by Andrew West/news-press.com) The non-profit Visuality opened its doors Monday in Royal Palm Plaza in Fort Myers.

Dear 40-Year-Old Me

Jul 23, 5:44 AM (ET) By LYNNE SLADKY MIAMI (AP) — The transgender community has gained a degree of acceptance in recent years with the help of such celebrities as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox from "Orange is the New Black." But for those who are less known it can be more of a struggle. Many young transgender people, wrestling with their identities, find themselves shunned by family, friends and co-workers. Episodes of homelessness, alcoholism, drug abuse and violence often follow. "A lot of people really don't realize the like immense amount of pain the average trans person goes through just trying to like live their life," says Eli, a 17-year-old male who was born a gi…

A transgender teen in Virginia is fighting for the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity. Gavin Grimm, Transgender Teen, Fighting to Use Men's Restroom at School

The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth Center For American Progress Gay, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth are significantly over-represented in the juvenile justice system—approximately 300,000 gay and transgender youth are arrested and/or detained each year, of which more than 60 percent are black or Latino...

A six-year-old girl who was assigned male at birth won her legal battle to change her national ID card and birth certificate to reflect her accurate gender. BY Sunnivie Brydum | September 28 2013 2:40 PM ET ""By accepting that my son was not the son I gave birth to, but a girl, I accepted her identity and put myself at her side," Gabriela told the Telegraph from Buenos Aires. " --advocate.com Trans Six-Year-Old Is Argentina's Youngest to Amend Gender on Birth Certificate

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:

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 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

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...

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...

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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...

Trans youth Coy Mathis, now 7, made the news in June when the Colorado Civil Rights Division, in a landmark case, ruled that the action of her school of banning her from using the girl’s bathroom violated a state law that protects transgender people. http://lexiecannes.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/3-year-old-trans-kid-wonders-when-she-will-get-her-girl-parts/

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…

Exclusive: Southwest Florida teens search for sexual identity, tolerance The News-Press (video by Andrew West/news-press.com) Haylie Adair, 19, left, shares a moment with her girlfriend, Jessie Rankin, 18, at Visuality, a center for homosexual, bisexual and transgender young people. Adair and Rankin are students at FGCU...

Very good news! Trans in the South: Meet Kids Finding Acceptance in the Bible Belt

The first "It Gets Better" video of its kind: Featuring parents from PFLAG's support group for families of transgender children sharing their personal struggles to understand their child's needs and find support for both themselves and their families.

Transgender youth research reveals body dissatisfaction, risk of eating disorders WSU News A Washington State University McNair Scholar who analyzed what transgender youth and young adults have to say about their body image found that they report dissatisfaction with their bodies, and 17 percent report having experienced an eating disorder...

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“An audience member asked about how Fausto-Sterling’s research would explain transgendered children, who are born one sex but identify themselves as another gender. She said it means those children aren’t necessarily born that way but might have developed into that identity.” - Kay Luna, The Quad-City Times Gender identification occurs early Looks like we’re back on “Nature VS Nurture”. ~ Beth

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?

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