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Helpful Links Transgender Children, Transsexual Children, Parents of TG Children
From Magazines and Newspapers A Boy's Life - from the Atlantic
We do this - to fight ignorance and help people find peace with who they or family members are. It is so much better to be understaqnding and accepting than to have a mind filled with negative concepts. Why can't we all just get along? |
Helping to Understand Transgender Youth & Issues This page is to help inform to bring about better understanding about transgender people. We want to empower children and families to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected and help build a society free of suicide and violence in which ALL children are respected and celebrated. Gender Identity Disorder is something a child can't control and it is society that needs to change, not them. PFLAG-Fort Wayne is working with transgender issues. It is pretty easy to understand gay and lesbian issues, but understanding transgender takes a little more time. We are taking the time and hope we can make a difference. This page is just a start. It will grow as we learn more, help more people and learn from them. We suggest you check out TYFA - Trans Youth Family Allies and we will put up more information as we build our own understanding. From the moment we're born, our gender identity is no secret. We're either a boy or a girl. Gender organizes our world into pink or blue. As we grow up, most of us naturally fit into our gender roles. Girls wear dresses and play with dolls. For boys, it's pants and trucks. Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated scientific debate about the nature of gender—and raises troubling questions about whether the limits of child indulgence have stretched too far.
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7yr. old Jazz's thoughts on being a Transgender Child
Transgender Issues - Because of parent concerns about their children who might be transgender, I suggest you visit Susan Stryker on Transgender History in America. It is 41 minutes long (from the Indiana Equality web site), but is helpful in understanding this reality in the lives of some of our neighbors. Some of it is not what you might expect - but it is what is going on in the lives of some friends - our neighbors, class mates, fellow workers - so it is important the work to understand. People are simply who and what they are. Nothing more, nothing less. It is up to us to deal with it and let everyone get on with their lives in ways that allow them to be positively connected with us. We are so much happier when we work to have some compassionate understanding of those who are different from us - because we are different from them. The video is not that great, but the information is helpful in understanding. - - RM
ABC episode of 20/20. It features Barbara Walters as she interviews the families of young transgender children. It is amazingly unbiased, ...This is the first part of an ABC episode of 20/20. Walters interviews the families of young transgender children. It is amazingly unbiased, sensitive, and well done. Have your kleenex handy....
My Secret Self - Part 1 of 5 - If you want the other parts, you can find them on Youtube - probably featured at end of video.