Transgender Children & Youth

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...

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...

Raising a Transgender Child: A Star is Born Huffington Post (blog) On the front page of The Boston Globe there was an article about identical twin boys, one of whom had identified as transgender and was now living fully as a girl. I, not surprisingly, was raptly reading the story when George came up behind me...

Dear 40-Year-Old Me

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

I Was Promised a Pony! Catherine Oliver Posted: 04/19/2012 11:02 am This blog is dedicated to trans*, bigender, and gender-variant youth. "I always knew I wasn't like others. I didn't want a boyfriend, and I wore clothes that the other girls called "boy's clothes," all the time. I played in the mud, ran after soccer balls, and climbed trees. "Tomboy," they said."

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

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Transgender Children at High Risk for Child Abuse Yahoo! Contributors Network The American Academy of Pediatrics released the disturbing, but unsurprising, results of a long-term study investigating abuse rates among transgender children. The investigation followed some 17000 people who demonstrated "gender nonconformity" ...

TRANSGENDER CHILDREN: Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise Delmarva Daily Times Guidelines from the Endocrine Society endorse transgender hormone treatment but say it should not be given before puberty begins. At that point, the guidelines recommend puberty-blocking drugs until age 16, then lifelong sex-changing hormones with ...

Transgender storytelling for kids at CofS venue The Christian Institute Children as young as five are being targeted to take part in a homosexual and transgender storytelling workshop at a Church of Scotland venue this weekend. On Saturday youngsters have the opportunity to “explore the diverse makeup of lesbian, gay, ...