Like many young girls, 13-year-old Ariel loved Disney princesses when she was growing up. She even asked her family to call her by a different Disney princess’s name every day: Cinderella. Belle. Snow White. But for Ariel, her family’s willingness to call her by those names had special significance: she was born a boy. And […]
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Meet the Prom Queen Who Grew Up Trans But is Now “Just a Girl”
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016It was just a generation ago when adults, not children, were the ones at the center of the transgender movement. But today, as transgender adults like Caitlyn Jenner gain broader acceptance, children have begun transitioning too. Among this first wave of children to make the change from one gender to another is 18-year-old Lia Hodson […]
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In his head, Alex Singh, sees himself as a strong, flat-chested guy with an Adam’s apple and a beard. But beginning around the fifth grade, Alex would look in the mirror, and see something entirely different — the body of a young girl going through female puberty. “That was — that is — horrible,” says […]
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There are things Isaac loves about being on testosterone. It’s “a super fun drug in some ways,” says Isaac, who is now 20 years old. Isaac was among the first wave of kids in the U.S. to medically transition from one gender to another. In middle school, he cut his hair and started dressing in […]
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Tyler Ford. (Photo by Jones Crow) For a while, Tyler Ford tried really hard to be a “typical” girl. As a teenager, Ford pored over copies of Cosmopolitan magazine, idolized pop star Jessica Simpson, put on makeup and dressed up for boys. None of it felt right. Ford was miserable. “I made myself into someone that I […]
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When Transgender Kids Transition, Medical Risks are Both Known and Unknown
by PBS June 10, 2016The last couple of years have seen burgeoning awareness in society of what it means to be transgender as an adult. But now doctors, like those at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, are helping children who identify as transgender negotiate their journey into adulthood. For earlier generations of transgender people, the […]
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About the Author: Lia Hodson, featured in the FRONTLINE documentary Growing Up Trans, was among the first generation of kids in the U.S. to medically transition from one gender to another. Today, Hodson, 19, lives and studies in Connecticut. Transgender has recently become a media buzzword thanks to the coverage of Caitlyn Jenner’s journey of self-expression and gender identity. […]