According to a 2022 study from theUCLA School of Law Williams Institute, 1.6 million people in the U.S. identify as transgender, meaning their gender identity is different from what they were assigned at birth. Whether someone is cis- or transgender,research showsthat gender identity is ...
They're only 9 years old, but these girls and boys from around the world offer keen insight into how gender shapes destiny.
Ghosh Ippen highlights how young children can often be the most impacted by events like this and has created resources such as a children’s book to help kids identify how they’re feeling. It's important for parents to affirm their kids' feelings, she said, by speaking to them...
Overall, the school context as a whole is experienced by many teachers as homophobic. In some cases, however, it becomes apparent that the teachers do not refer to experiences in their narratives, but rather anticipate homophobia and bullying, so that we can speak of expected reactions: “I’...
Over the past several years, Best Documentary Short has become arguably the strongest specialty category at the Academy Awards, and 2021 is proving to be the same as the directors of four short docs spoke at TheWrap’s Awards Screening Series about how their unique stories were created.Among ...
In his Oscars acceptance speech, screenwriter, Graham Moore, encouraged adolescents to “stay weird and stay different.” As transgender youth across the nation feel confused and different, Kids In The House experts would like to echo Graham’s statement
Now, I understand why she never went to dances or on dates and never had many close friends. If you’re terrified to share the truth of who you are, of course you’re going to become more and more isolated. When Jazz came out as a transgender woman, everything got better. Her ...
If your child is going through puberty and is biologically female, then they’re on track to start menstruating. Although some nonbinary and transgender kids might take it in stride, many find the disconnect between their identity and what’s happening to their body to be distressing. ...
"I have friends who are transgender and have transitioned and are able to use either a gender-neutral locker room or the locker room that aligns with how they identify, which is definitely not true of every school," she said. Like Mereish, Flynn thinks the ultimate answer to removing barri...
kids to be able to look back and say it doesn’t fit anymore,” one formerGICclinician, who didn’t want to be named, told me. “My sample size is not huge, but I’ve had many kids who have been quite insistent and have felt as though it” — meaning a transgender identity —...