Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Transgender is the state of one’s gender identity (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) not matching one’s assigned sex (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex).
A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional gender continuum, or exist outside of it as other, agender, genderqueer, or third gender. Transgender people may also identify as bigender, or along several places on either the traditional transgender continuum, or the more encompassing continuums which have been developed in response to the significantly more detailed studies done in recent years. Furthermore, many transgender people go through a period of identity development, marked by increases in understanding of one’s self-image, self-reflection, and self-expression. More specifically, the degree to which individuals feel genuine, authentic, and comfortable within their external appearance and accept their genuine identity is referred to as transgender congruence.
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Story of Jazz Jennings
‘I’m a Girl’ — Understanding Transgender Children
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. But for some children, what’s between their legs doesn’t match what’s between their ears — they insist they were born into the wrong body. They are transgender children, diagnosed with gender identity disorder, and their parents insist this is not a phase.
On the surface, the Jennings and their four children are a typical American family. But their youngest child, Jazz, is only in kindergarten, and already she is one of the youngest known cases of an early transition from male to female. Read the source article: >>
Transgender at 11: Listening to Jazz
Published on Jan 19, 2013
Part 1: Barbara Walters catches up with a girl who says she was born in the wrong body.
I am Jazz
Documentary about a 10 year old transgender girl named Jazz
Transgender at 11: ‘I Want Boobs!’
Jazz Jennings – the Transgender girl star of reality show
You are pretty and be u and don’t ever listen to people who are being mean!!!!!!<3?????????????????????????????????????????????to jazz
Please leave this young girl alone.As an older person,I am appalled at the sick comments that I have seen,I have tuned in to I am Jazz and marvel at the maturity that this young girl has.I also admire her family for their strength through such adversity.I can only assume that some of the negative comments come from prejudice people with absolutely no knowledge of the condition of being Transgender..I applaud Jazz for her courage to speak up for all Transgender people.To all negative and hateful commenters,GROW UP,GET A LIFE,MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS,AND GET IN THE REAL WORLD.