Transgender Children & Youth

I just came across this and am compelled to send/post it to everyone I can. I especially love and appreciate the video that is linked within the article: RAISING ZAY: A family's journey with a transgender child

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

Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Should Include Gay and Transgender Youth Center For American Progress The act makes no mention, however, of gay and transgender youth, even though these groups make up a disproportionately large number of homeless youth in America. Incorporating gay and transgender youth into the act when it comes up for reauthorization...

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/

CBS NewsMarch 25, 2014, 8:29 PM ""You can be assured that we have cared for Sunnie and worked with her grandparents for several years to assist them. Our TCS teachers and administrators love Sunnie and we can assure everyone that this has never been an issue of hair length or boots as it has been portrayed. It has been our constant desire over the last several years to work with this family and to shepherd this precious little girl in a way consistent with traditional values," he said." --cbsnews.com Christian school complains 8-year-old girl isn't girly enough Note: in the first paragraph, I think the article intended to indicate that Kahle was not sufficiently …

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Mitch Kellaway | April 02 2015 2:10 PM ET "Local media reports that Martha's Minatures has not responded to repeated phone calls for comment. While Giordano believes she and her daughter have been subject to discrimination, North Texas TV station KTEN clarified that such treatment is not currently illegal in Denison, Texas, which lacks a nondiscrimination code akin to neighboring Forth Worth or Houston. "It depends on what they're refusing the service for," explained attorney Bobbie Peterson-Cate. "For sexual orientation, no, it is not illegal."" -- advocate.com Texas Shop Accuses Mother of 'Child Abuse' for Letting Daughter Wear Suit

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.

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

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…

Growing up transgender isn't a passive existence unfortunately. Being in the closet is painful. Children are born transgender and being transgender is a life long thing. That life being one that could be happy or could be extremely sad based solely on how we as a society treat them. We have children, right now, ending up in the hospital due to stress. Children attempting to take their own lives. We can't change every negative that a child might face, but we have it in our power to change many. To say we won't because a certain community isn't seen as ready is a critical mistake. Transgender is: A Gender Identity that is other, in some way, than the sex that was assigned …

Support for Antibullying Measures Extends Beyond Gay and Transgender Groups Center For American Progress But for many gay and transgender youth, school is a place to be feared because of bullies and an overall hostile environment where they are susceptible to harassment and physical abuse because of their sexual orientation or gender identity...

Supporting gay and transgender youth most in need San Diego Gay & Lesbian News The event is held in partnership with the Ruth Ellis Center and is the second in a series of conferences being held across the country to address the unique needs of gay and transgender Americans.* The keynote speaker at today's event is Secretary ...

Pennsylvania High School Teacher Shows Video Mocking Gay Student and His Transgender Prom Date By Andy Towle Jared Swank, a senior high school student in Hanover, Pennsylvania, says he was mocked by a teacher who shared a video she took of Swank and his transgender prom date to other students...

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…

Blake Brockington has spent the better part of two years winning over the respect of students, faculty, and administrators at his school. Now, he looks to cap his high school tenure by running for homecoming king. Parker Marie Molloy | February 07 2014 1:25 PM ET "A 17-year-old high school student in Charlotte, N.C., received some great news earlier this week. Blake Brockington, a transgender senior, has been nominated for homecoming king at East Mecklenburg High School." --advocate.com Trans Teen in Charlotte Runs for Homecoming King See related: school board refuses to allow transgender student to run as homecoming king

I saw this report in the L.A. Times and tought it quite fascinating. Quote,"Like me and Jazz. She's trans, she's bi, whatever. I'm not. But I like her. She's a person, he's a person . . . whatever. I like her for who she is. Or he is." http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks17-2008jun17,0,4432197.column Seems like the young people are get it better than the adults. ;)

To comply with league policy, student must have undergone gender reassignment surgery Staff Reports | Thursday, February 20, 2014 "RICHMOND, Va. — The governing body of high school sports in Virginia has sanctioned the participation of transgender athletes at the state’s 313 high schools, on the condition they undergo gender reassignment surgery." --lgbtqnation.com Transgender high school athletes approved by Va. governing board ____________________________________________ Okay...is the Virginia governing board really that ignorant? Or do they think we are that ignorant?

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...

by David Yi Katherine, a gentle 19-year old from Brooklyn, is many things: Bangladeshi American, an avid gamer, Muslim, a future programmer. But one thing she is not: human. At least, that’s what she's been told by the family who rejected her. In the cramped apartment she shares with her parents and siblings, Katherine is a ghost. Virtually ignored, she spends her days invisible in the hallway, the only place she doesn’t get in the way of her mother who is seldom outside the kitchen, her father who spends his days in the living room, and her siblings, who hide themselves away in their small room. Katherine doesn’t have a room, let alone a bed she can call her own. “I sle…

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…

I think this is so cool. The boy is 4 years old and loves to wear dresses. The parents are okay with it and the mother wrote a children's book about her son to help the other kids and their parents understand it. There is a box of clothes in the class for the kids to play dress up. The mother came to pick up her son after school and he was always wearing dresses from the box. She thought that maybe there wasn't enough boy's stuff in the box so she brought a bunch and put them in the box. Each day she came to pick him up he would be wearing a dress or something feminine. She asked him about it and he said he just really liked wearing them. She talked to her husband…

By Victoria Derbyshire 7 April 2015 The number of children aged 10 and under who have been referred to NHS support services to help deal with transgender feelings has more than quadrupled in the last six years, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Here is the story of two of the youngest transgender children in the UK - with permission from their parents and with the support of the children's schools. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32037397

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...