Transgender Children & Youth

Introducing Our Parents' Generation To Transgender Children Can Be Hard... Huffington Post I thought to myself, 'I wonder if he is ready to hear about transgender children?' But as usual, I decided to take it slow to see where the conversation might lead us...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Being Transgender Is Not a Rare Disorder By Davina Kotulski To my dismay, the mother of a trans child said she'd interviewed dozens of therapists and only one or two had any experience counseling transgender clients and told her that being transgender is a rare disorder...

Transgender 101: 15 Things to Know Huffington Post (blog) Because I run a camp for transgender youth, Camp Aranu'tiq, I end up interfacing with parents soon after they have found out that their child is transgender. These parents are looking for resources for not only themselves but their family and friends...

Dear 40-Year-Old Me

He's Gay, He's Straight, He's Transgender... He's Roscoe! Huffington Post Another immediately jumps to pushing him into a transgender role. Some just think he's weird. How about this: he's just Roscoe. As our own children are bombarded with increasingly sexualized images and iconography from an ever-younger age, the pressure...

In the Life Groundbreaking Episode: Journeys of Transgender Children & Their Families Rainbow Times New York, NY – This month, the award-winning newsmagazine In The Life will debut “Becoming Me,” featuring eight families with transgender and gender nonconforming children ranging in ages from 5 to 25. Is it a boy or a girl?...

Originally printed 4/19/2012 (Issue 2016 - Between The Lines News) "The little girl in the audience had a hard time sitting still. She lay across her grandmother's lap and kicked her little purple-tight-covered legs in the air, amused by the way her lavender tutu skirt crunched as she moved. In front of the crowd a panel of parents, and one grandparent - her own grandfather, spoke about what it's like to have a transgender child." Transgender children share coming out stories

Transgender Children: What Would You Do By iVillage: What would you do if your son or daughter wanted to be the opposite sex from what they were born? Kelly Wallace and iVoices Amanda Rodriguez of http://www.ParentingByDummies.com, Sharon Rowley of http://www.Momof6.com, Beth Engelman of http://www.MommyOnAShoestring.com and Brandi Jeter of http://www.MamaKnowsItAll.com

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

High School Student Finds Strength to Come Out as Transsexual Patch.com Katie Forman, 18, identifies herself as a transsexual. She says she's been met with support at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School since coming out a few months ago. A few months ago, Katie Forman donned a simple brown...

Dyson Kilodavis, "the princess boy," was a little over 3 when he told his mother he was a pretty princess, and was the inspiration for the book his mother wrote, "My Princess Boy." I've been unable to find much since Bonnie first posted the thread " in December 2010. But the latest seems to be when Dyson was featured on ABC's Primetime Nightline in August 2011 when he was 5 - he began wearing dresses at 2. His mum, Cheryl, has become another "accidental activist." Watch the video segment on Dyson at (Extra)Ordinary Family: Inside the Transgender World. Take the poll, but post no answers - and no cheating by using image-recognition progs or websites, or any of…

German transgender girl to be institutionalized by German courts Examiner.com A German court has decided an 11-year-old transgender German girl should be institutionalized rather than live her life as a girl. Having been born a boy, Alexis Kaminsky, has always felt she was a girl. When Alexis' parents decided to get divorced...

The Girls Scouts of Colorado have spoken out in support of transgender children. Following the story of a child who was denied enrollment in a local Girl Scout troop despite identifying as a girl, the Girl Scouts of Colorado released a statement saying that the associate responsible for that troop was unaware of the organization's policy. "Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization and we accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members"... "If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout." Read the article Girl Scouts Released Statement Welcoming Transgender Youth

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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

"Events are being organised in London as part of the UK's first ever Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Adoption and Fostering Week. It comes as gay adopters and foster carers are being hailed by social workers for their significant strengths in a survey..." Read the news article: Events held for LGBT adoption week

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.

Transgender Discrimination Policy Weighed in Howard County Schools Patch.com spokeswoman Patti Caplan By Lisa Rossi Susan Garner, the HCPSS psychologist, with Will Gallucci and Gallucci's mother Catherine Hyde, who is advocating for anti-discrimination policies for transgender students. submitted Howard County school leaders ...