Transgender Children & Youth

https://www.yahoo.com/health/transgender-student-not-alone-in-facing-challenges-in-95115383192.html

Dad: My son wears dresses and that's OK (Video) CNN Video: Actor and father Seth Menachem explains why he's comfortable letting his 2-year-old son wear dresses in public. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2014/07/21/wxp-seth-menachem-my-son-wears-dresses.cnn.html While we don't know whether the child is transgender, what a wonderful world it would be if all parents expressed this same kind of unconditional love and support. ~ Lori

In what is being described as the first known event of its kind, a transgendered teen was named as her high school’s homecoming queen on Friday. http://news.yahoo.com/california-teen-named-nation-s-first-transgender-homecoming-queen-053444443.html

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…

Thousands of teens will undergo 'conversion therapy' in near future, study estimates https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/80-000-teens-will-undergo-conversion-therapy-near-future-study-n841356

please watch all of it. share this video to all. http://youtu.be/uSMHlFeCCew

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

Steve Helling | 01/07/2015, 7:00 PM EST "Elliot also has had some surprising reactions. "I went off to college expecting there to be zero ignorance, and I was very, very wrong," he says. "People will say inappropriate things and ask inappropriate questions. Some of them are simple curiosity, and they don't realize that they're being offensive. But then there are some people who are trying to be mean. You learn to tell the difference."" -- people.com The DeMita Fletcher Family: What We Learned From Our Transgender Son

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

Scenes from the Trans Protest Prom in Washington, D.C. (msn.com)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/mom-of-transgender-9-year-old-shares-inspiring-video-of-her-son-s-journey-193825126.html

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 …

I came across a very interesting, well thought out perspective. I agree. Any thoughts? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pre-k-teacher-attacks-idea-of-childhood-innocence-claims-toddlers-not-too-young-for-sexuality-discussion/ar-AA17oiVB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=06f2bc52640845aab7907bb320b322a8

Mitch Kellaway | February 01 2015 6:00 AM ET "While these are only the initial findings of research Eaton and his team plan to continue by repeatedly following up with the subjects over a long period of time, Eaton considers the results decisive enough to inform families, health care providers and institutions in their approaches to trans youth." --advocate.com STUDY: Transgender Kids Are Not 'Confused' About Their Gender Identities

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.

BY Tobias SalingerNEW YORK DAILY NEWSUpdated: Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 9:39 AMA 9-year-old transgender Girl Scout has suffered smears online and in person just for selling the Scouts’ famous cookies. Yet Stormi, who lives in Herrin in Southern Illinois, has also received an outpouring of love in the form of thousands of cookies sold despite the hateful comments directed at her, BuzzFeed News reported Monday. Stormi was knocking on doors with her foster mother last month when a man at one home expressed opposition to the Girl Scouts of America’s inclusive policies by insulting a little girl. “Nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress,” the man who lives nearby …

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.

SECAUCUS, N.J. — The mother of a transgender boy who was barred from being a Cub Scout had to fight back tears Wednesday as she read a letter from a Scout leader in Great Britain offering her 8-year-old son membership in his troop and adding: "We don't discriminate." More here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/12/29/cub-scouts-transgender-boy-family-grateful-support/95951310/

last night I went to a trans meeting here in Reno and got to meet the mother of a child who made the news concerning Cee Cee and the bathroom situation at a school. I felt both honored and blessed to get to know this mothers story about her child going through transition and the fact the mother is now dating a transman. I tried to find the post on here, cause i swear i thought there was one on her..but couldnt find it. Cee Cee who is 9yrs old was just the happiest girl, running around the pizza place where we had the meeting at, playing video games. http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Nine-Year-Old-Transgender-Declares-Identity-268764841.html?device=phone

i think people should get to know their options that could (help) them not have to grow facial and body hair!! i am older now, but did they all know in the 1980s that hormone treatments at puberty could keep people from the need to deal with that kind of hair? i suppose there are other (important) issues to consider for some people. but still! ...not the time it takes as much as the difficulty of doing it perfect consistently and the irritation. i have other skin issues and stuff that maybe complicate it.

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

Written by Louis Weisberg, Staff writer | Sep 13, 2013 "The new policy was adopted in response to an incident involving a transgender elementary school student. Parents complained after the student used a girl’s restroom at Summit Elementary School on Sept. 6. Apparently, they believed she should have used the boy’s room." --wisconsingazette.com Oconomowoc School District adopts 'gender-neutral' restroom policy

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)

In California, a transgender girl was crowned And in NH, a transgender high school boy was crowned homecoming king, unlike Pennsylvania, where the school system refused to allow a boy to even run as because he was assigned female at birth. Transgender high school student in N.H. crowned Homecoming King Monday, October 7, 2013 "Amid cheers from students and hugs from friends, Ray walked over to his dad who grabbed him by the shoulders, looked him in the eye and said, “I am so proud of you.”" --lgbtqnation.com

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