Transgender Children & Youth

Mother of Transgender Toddler Gets a Lesson in Love Advocate.com My child is now ten. He transitioned at the age of five. By eighteen months I knew that this child, my fourth daughter, was different from the first three. In particular, she was very boyish, a characteristic which I had never thought about much before...

http://www.ibtimes.com/transgender-teen-colorado-crowned-homecoming-princess-receives-criticism-support-1688050

Minnesota “Maxx Flaa, a 2010 graduate of Albert Lea High School, knows this first hand. Maxx is transgender, meaning he was born biologically female but identifies himself as a male. He legally changed his name from Maddie to Maxxwell last August, but didn’t come out as transgender until after high school.” - Kelli Lageson Teen hopes to help others like himself

UK “Experts believe this will give children the “space” to decide if they want to live as male or female, before the appearance of physical signs such as facial hair or breasts.” - Georgia James NHS Gives Puberty Delay Drugs To Children With GID

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/

UK “Children who believe they have been born the wrong sex can obtain ‘puberty delay’ drugs on the NHS, it has been revealed.” - By Editor,TNT 'Puberty delay' drugs for children confused about gender

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...

While driving along the Alaska Highway last summer I happened to find a podcast called "How to Be a Girl: Daily Life With My Transgender Daughter" and quickly fell in love with the posts. I especially liked this one, and listened to it more than once: Episode VII: THE FACTS (about transgender kids) Marlo (the mother) and I got to know each other over emails, and I was so surprised to learn that she and her daughter live in Seattle. She, her daughter, and I have become friends! I'm so thrilled to know them and others in the community. It really makes me feel like I've come home. The three of us even went out for sushi last night! But some time ago Marlo was interviewed by …

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/02/12/new-transgender-hospital-program-introduced-to-dallas/

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 "Under the agreement, approved Tuesday evening by the district’s school board, the school district will take a number of steps to ensure that the student, who has consistently and uniformly presented as a boy at school and in all other aspects of his life for several years, will be treated like other male students while attending school in the district." --lgbtqnation.com Calif. school district settles discrimination complaint by transgender student

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)

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.

I think most people care about kids. I hope so anyway. Do I really need to go into the suicide statistics? Do I really need to talk about the mental heath issues caused by long term stress? It breaks my heart when I speak to children who face the fate I endure. It's simply not needed. Please help by doing what is so easy.

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…

Associated Press - January 5, 2016 "“Kids have full permission to be themselves — as well as educators. Where there’s no wondering, ‘Is this teacher going to be a person for me to be myself with?’” said Zsilavetz, who is transgender and a veteran teacher with nearly 25 years of experience. “This is a place where they (students) can just open up and be the best person they can be.”" -- yahoo.com Groundbreaking High School for LGBT Students to Open

Invisible Youth: Samantha Box TIME Transgender people comprise the highest proportion of homeless LGBT youth. In particular, they are often denied access to shelter services, particularly in shelters that segregate clients based on birth sex. Discrimination and lack of identification...

Lambda Legal, June 12, 2012 "The Human Rights Law is far more specific and explicitly inclusive than other antidiscrimination laws, and provides remedies and procedures that other laws do not. Without it, New York public school students who are harassed or discriminated against, including LGBT youth, lack adequate state law protection." -Tom Ude, Lambda Legal Sr Staff Atty NY Court Says Human Rights Law Doesn't Cover Students

This is an excellent 1.5 hour video of Dr. Norman Space, Nicole Maines, and her brother Jonas providing their audience with a view into their lives. The video is certainly okay for children but probably more interesting to parents. In the last half hour they add Nicole and Jonas's mother - Kelly - who provides her insights into what she, her husband, and family went through to help Nicole: Becoming Nicole - Dr. Norman P. Spack, Nicole Maines and Jonas Maines

TransYouth Family Allies (TYFA) has launched a web page to assist transgender new Girl Scout Bobby Montoya and her troop with their annual cookie drive. View the web page and access the donation page: Transgender Girl Scout’s Cookie Drive You probably already know all about Bobby Montoya and her Girl Scout troop from our forum thread regarding Bobby's journey: Bobby is a member of a newly-formed Girl Scouts Colorado Troop. Any donations made online will go toward cookies that will be distributed to their hometown charity, Mount Saint Vincent Home, which has assisted over 18,000 abused and neglected Colorado children since 1883. Proceeds will also go to Boots on …

Camp unites transgender kids on outskirts Boston Globe On the volleyball court, a boy spiked a shot and his teammates cheered. Nearby, some campers lay on mats, doing yoga stretches. A girl executed a series of cartwheels. Over in drama, the kids performed a “cranky old lady” talk show; everyone cracked up...

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 think this is a very timely and important article: My Transgender Daughter Is A Beloved Child Of GodGod doesn’t make mistakes.

Advocate.com October 30 2014 3:16 PM ET Christian Mom Shares Story of Acceptance and Love for Trans Son Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez Christian mother Gina Kentopp had to question everything she believed and used her faith on her journey to accepting her transgender son.

She's in the news again... Jul 13, 10:34 AM (ET) By FRAZIER MOORE EW YORK (AP) — Like many 14-year-old girls, Jazz Jennings goes to school, plays soccer, hangs out with friends, has a thing for mermaids and loves social media, kind of wishes her tummy were a little bit flatter, and lives life feeling good about herself. She's also transgender. She was assigned male at birth yet was sure as young as 2 years old that she was a girl. She transitioned into Jazz at 5. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150713/us-tv-i-am-jazz-3fc49bc953.html

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