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But other federal courts had also ruled against the ban — and until Tuesday, those other injunctions remained in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two outstanding cases come from California and Washington state, in the 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Rights Campaign, which is involved in the Karnoski case in Washington state, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HRC/status/1087725575303774210\">condemned the Supreme Court’s decision\u003c/a>, saying it “thrusts this administration’s discriminatory agenda onto a military that clearly doesn’t want it, and does so at the expense of transgender people’s careers and service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Minter, legal director of the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the organizations representing plaintiffs in cases challenging the ban, called the court’s decision a “very sad day for our military, for transgender people in this country, certainly for the thousands of courageous dedicated transgender service members who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is definitely a body blow and a very traumatic moment for them to know that the United States Supreme Court has, however temporarily, allowed the Trump administration to enforce a ban that directly attacks them and falsely paints them as unfit for military service, even as they are every single day proving their fitness to serve,” Minter said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Minter was disappointed by the decision to grant the stay, he was encouraged that the Supreme Court is allowing the cases to proceed through the district courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a temporary order,” Minter said. “It theoretically does allow the government now to enforce the ban while we all wait for the 9th Circuit to rule, which is going to happen any day now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, called the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Trump’s transgender ban to temporarily take effect “deeply disappointing” and “creates unnecessary confusion for transgender individuals serving in the military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ban would essentially restore ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ for transgender service members, only allowing them to serve if they hide their true identity,” Feinstein said in written statement. “That previous policy directed toward LGBT service members harmed our military then, just as this one will now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump announced his ban abruptly in the summer of 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890193981585444864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E890193981585444864&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2017%2F07%2F27%2F539559582%2F5-unanswered-questions-about-trumps-ban-on-transgender-troops\">saying in a series of tweets\u003c/a> that “the United States Government will not accept or allow…… ….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision seemed to take Defense Department officials by surprise, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539559582/5-unanswered-questions-about-trumps-ban-on-transgender-troops\">sparking confusion\u003c/a> despite Trump’s assertion that he had consulted “with my Generals and military experts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tweets were followed by an official \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/25/presidential-memorandum-secretary-defense-and-secretary-homeland\">presidential memo\u003c/a> in August of that year, which gave the defense secretary (and for the Coast Guard, the Homeland Security secretary) the discretion to “determine how to address transgender individuals currently serving in the United States military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s ban was a sharp reversal of a Pentagon policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/30/484192442/pentagon-says-transgender-troops-can-now-serve-openly\">announced in June 2016\u003c/a>, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, “Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Obama-era policy was hailed as ending an era of legal and professional limbo for trans people in the U.S. armed service; Carter said the decision was made out of a desire to attract “all talent possible” to serve in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, researchers at the RAND Corporation think tank estimated there were as many as 7,000 active-duty transgender service members, with up to 4,000 more in the reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that policy and the lower-court injunctions, the first openly trans people were officially able to join the U.S. military \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/with-ban-lifted-trans-chicago-man-hopes-to-aim-high-with-air-force/b2f35740-bed1-494e-be57-2c5cd96124ed\">on Jan. 1, 2018\u003c/a>. But now their status is once again in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s order states that if the 9th Circuit rules against the ban, the ban on trans people in the military would remain in effect until the Supreme Court justices either deny a request to hear the case (if such an application is made) or rule against the Trump administration’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Domenico Montanaro and KQED’s Ted Goldberg contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's easy to spot Dee Shull in a coffee shop in San Leandro: Shull is wearing a bright green T-shirt with big block letters reading, \"Too queer for your binary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull is also clutching a purple purse with many colorful political statements, including one that says \"They/Them\" — which are Shull's preferred pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like others who identify as nonbinary, gender-nonconforming or gender-queer, Shull's internal experience is somewhere along the gender spectrum rather than either male or female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My gender today is definitely kind of middle of the road,\" Shull says. \"What I tend to call a \u003cem>yes and\u003c/em> gender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sipping on an iced coffee, Shull heads to the coffee shop's restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their single-occupancy restrooms are marked 'all-gender' restrooms,\" Shull says. \"It's one of the reasons I like this coffee shop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gender-Neutral Bathrooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull remembers how much of a relief it was when the state's groundbreaking \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bathroom law\u003c/a> went into effect last year. California was the first state in the nation to require all public restrooms be updated with a single toilet or urinal to be labeled gender-neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sitting there looking back and forth between the two of them going, 'Which one do I use?' \" Shull says, smiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DMV Adds Nonbinary Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull is also taking advantage of another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent law\u003c/a> that allows residents to change their gender and name to align with their desired gender. They are thrilled that their name will no longer be a \"preferred\" name — it will soon be a legal name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if I'm trending more masculine it could just be the initial D,\" says Shull. \"If I’m trending more feminine, it will match what will be on my license, which is D-E-E.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull plans to head to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a new license on Jan. 1. That’s when a third gender option will be available on state-issued identity documents, including birth certificates. California was the first state to pass a law offering a third gender option: X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot even handle the feeling of correctness and validation without just going out and partying a little bit about it,\" laughs Shull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot to celebrate, says Christy Mallory, state and local policy director at the \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams Institute\u003c/a>, a gender-identity think tank at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don't even think about how often they pull out their driver's license or show it,\" says Mallory. \"But just think about what that would mean if your driver's license did not accurately reflect who you are. Think about the types of fear you'd have in going out and using that ID, especially in certain circumstances like voting, serving as a juror, applying for a job or getting an apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 law\u003c/a> also requires employers to train supervisors on how to identify and prevent harassment based on gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, Mallory says. Employees are taught how to use appropriate pronouns and create inclusive dress codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Youth Protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of policies protecting transgender and nonbinary children are in place in the Golden State, too. California is the only state to mandate \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">access to gender-affirming health care, which includes mental health care, for transgender foster youth. The 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> includes access to medical services like counseling, hormone therapy and surgery.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at UCSF's Child and Adolescent Gender Center, noted landmark \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013\u003c/a> legislation\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003c/a>allows children to use the bathroom, locker room — or participate on whichever sports team — they believe matches their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes a tremendous difference in someone’s gender being accepted, supported and protected all at the same time,\" says Ehrensaft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11318192 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11318191-thumb-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11318191-thumb.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11318191-thumb-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11318191-thumb-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11318191-thumb-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11318191-thumb-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max, 13 years old, identifies as agender — neither male nor female. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years in her practice, Ehrensaft says she has witnessed kids' self-esteem rise. Take 15-year-old Max, for example, who identifies as nonbinary. Before the public school law took effect, Max used to use the boy's room but only during class, when it was less crowded, and only when desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And sometimes I just wouldn’t use the bathroom all day,\" says Max, whose last name is not being used for his protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls' room wasn’t an option either because Max always had a sinking feeling they were in the wrong place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I’m not supposed to be here. There’s something in your stomach — this just doesn’t feel right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max now attends a school in Oakland that has a gender-neutral bathroom, which more and more California schools are providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to innovative state policies, there are also unique services for California families with transgender children. Ehrensaft counsels some of these children in her highly progressive clinic. “We are definitely seeing children as young as 3, 4 and 5 years old who are socially transitioning from the gender everybody thought they were to the gender they say they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688951\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11688951 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie, 7, poses for a picture in her room. Gracie is transgender; she socially transitioned to a girl at the age of 4. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft helps families navigate social changes like name changes and new attire, activities or toys that allow a child to live in the gender that feels most authentic to them. A social transition does not include any medical interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven-year-old Gracie remembers what it was like when people treated her like a boy even though she felt like a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not right to me, and I didn’t want people to say that, but they said it,\" cringes Gracie. \"It hurted my feelings a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started socially transitioning from a boy to a girl when she was 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did it make her angry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it just made me sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How about now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels happy to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, those are the magic words most parents desperately want to hear. Ehrensaft says she is working with more and more families who have recently moved from other parts of the U.S. to California in hopes of finding a more supportive environment for gender-expansive children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are getting an influx of families who want to be here because it is the best fertilizer for their children,\" says Ehrensaft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backlash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s policies are not without controversy. There is a fierce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440851/can-you-really-know-that-a-3-year-old-is-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debate\u003c/a> over whether to help children socially transition their gender at young ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has just been a breeding ground for a gender revolution,\" says Ehrensaft. \"So people either love it or hate us for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal hubs like Washington or Oregon tend to follow California's lead. Both states recently passed rules allowing for a third-gender option on identity documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As California passes new laws that protect LGBTQ people, we see two things happen across the country,\" says Samuel Garrett-Pate, spokesman for Equality California, an advocacy organization supporting LGBTQ people. \"First, we see a lot of states follow in our footsteps. We saw that on our ban on \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/conversion-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversion therapy\u003c/a> several years ago. But we also see some states move in the opposite direction, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, numerous states introduced anti-transgender legislation that would restrict bathroom access, allow discrimination in the adoption process or limit transgender students' rights at school. Even though most of these bills are either currently inactive or failed, Garrett-Pate expects discriminatory policies to continue to gain traction in conservative pockets of the country.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their single-occupancy restrooms are marked 'all-gender' restrooms,\" Shull says. \"It's one of the reasons I like this coffee shop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gender-Neutral Bathrooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull remembers how much of a relief it was when the state's groundbreaking \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bathroom law\u003c/a> went into effect last year. California was the first state in the nation to require all public restrooms be updated with a single toilet or urinal to be labeled gender-neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sitting there looking back and forth between the two of them going, 'Which one do I use?' \" Shull says, smiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DMV Adds Nonbinary Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull is also taking advantage of another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent law\u003c/a> that allows residents to change their gender and name to align with their desired gender. They are thrilled that their name will no longer be a \"preferred\" name — it will soon be a legal name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if I'm trending more masculine it could just be the initial D,\" says Shull. \"If I’m trending more feminine, it will match what will be on my license, which is D-E-E.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shull plans to head to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a new license on Jan. 1. That’s when a third gender option will be available on state-issued identity documents, including birth certificates. California was the first state to pass a law offering a third gender option: X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot even handle the feeling of correctness and validation without just going out and partying a little bit about it,\" laughs Shull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot to celebrate, says Christy Mallory, state and local policy director at the \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams Institute\u003c/a>, a gender-identity think tank at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don't even think about how often they pull out their driver's license or show it,\" says Mallory. \"But just think about what that would mean if your driver's license did not accurately reflect who you are. Think about the types of fear you'd have in going out and using that ID, especially in certain circumstances like voting, serving as a juror, applying for a job or getting an apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 law\u003c/a> also requires employers to train supervisors on how to identify and prevent harassment based on gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, Mallory says. Employees are taught how to use appropriate pronouns and create inclusive dress codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Youth Protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of policies protecting transgender and nonbinary children are in place in the Golden State, too. California is the only state to mandate \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">access to gender-affirming health care, which includes mental health care, for transgender foster youth. 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Take 15-year-old Max, for example, who identifies as nonbinary. Before the public school law took effect, Max used to use the boy's room but only during class, when it was less crowded, and only when desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And sometimes I just wouldn’t use the bathroom all day,\" says Max, whose last name is not being used for his protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls' room wasn’t an option either because Max always had a sinking feeling they were in the wrong place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I’m not supposed to be here. There’s something in your stomach — this just doesn’t feel right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max now attends a school in Oakland that has a gender-neutral bathroom, which more and more California schools are providing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to innovative state policies, there are also unique services for California families with transgender children. Ehrensaft counsels some of these children in her highly progressive clinic. “We are definitely seeing children as young as 3, 4 and 5 years old who are socially transitioning from the gender everybody thought they were to the gender they say they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688951\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11688951 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ww2.kqed_.orgGracie-800x534-7f01db0d09d131933c8f203eb97d2927542aa1a8-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie, 7, poses for a picture in her room. Gracie is transgender; she socially transitioned to a girl at the age of 4. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft helps families navigate social changes like name changes and new attire, activities or toys that allow a child to live in the gender that feels most authentic to them. A social transition does not include any medical interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven-year-old Gracie remembers what it was like when people treated her like a boy even though she felt like a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not right to me, and I didn’t want people to say that, but they said it,\" cringes Gracie. \"It hurted my feelings a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started socially transitioning from a boy to a girl when she was 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did it make her angry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it just made me sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How about now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels happy to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, those are the magic words most parents desperately want to hear. Ehrensaft says she is working with more and more families who have recently moved from other parts of the U.S. to California in hopes of finding a more supportive environment for gender-expansive children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are getting an influx of families who want to be here because it is the best fertilizer for their children,\" says Ehrensaft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backlash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s policies are not without controversy. There is a fierce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440851/can-you-really-know-that-a-3-year-old-is-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debate\u003c/a> over whether to help children socially transition their gender at young ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has just been a breeding ground for a gender revolution,\" says Ehrensaft. \"So people either love it or hate us for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal hubs like Washington or Oregon tend to follow California's lead. Both states recently passed rules allowing for a third-gender option on identity documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As California passes new laws that protect LGBTQ people, we see two things happen across the country,\" says Samuel Garrett-Pate, spokesman for Equality California, an advocacy organization supporting LGBTQ people. \"First, we see a lot of states follow in our footsteps. We saw that on our ban on \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/conversion-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversion therapy\u003c/a> several years ago. But we also see some states move in the opposite direction, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I’m showing that trans women can be whatever they want,” Ponce \u003ca href=\"http://news.trust.org/item/20181212105351-ozrff\">told\u003c/a> the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “I am proud to have the opportunity to use this platform for a message of inclusion, tolerance and respect for the LGBT+ community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ponce says she was all set to compete for the Miss World competition in 2015 when she learned that the pageant had a rule prohibiting trans women from winning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It crushed me,” she \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/5465550/angela-ponce-miss-universe/\">said in an interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> last month. “I had to go on and perform, and it felt horrible. But after I got to the Miss Universe final, Miss World changed their rules too. I changed the rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miss Universe \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/showbiz/miss-universe-transgender/index.html\">lifted its ban\u003c/a> on transgender competitors in 2012. The pageant, then owned by Donald Trump, changed its policy following blowback after Canadian officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/04/10/150350652/miss-universe-pageant-will-allow-transgendered-women-to-compete\">disqualified a contestant\u003c/a> when they learned she was trans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m competing because it’s what I’ve wanted to do since I was a little girl,” Ponce told \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>. “I’m showing that trans women can be whatever they want to be: a teacher, a mother, a doctor, a politician and even Miss Universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ponce, 27, didn’t make it past the first round of the competition, but she was feted with a special tribute during the finals. A video showed Ponce’s path to the current moment, including her account of bullying she experienced as a child. At last, Ponce walked onto the stage and held her Spain sash aloft while she clutched her heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miss USA says she is sorry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Miss USA, Sarah Rose Summers, was criticized for remarks about two of her fellow contestants that struck some as condescending and xenophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an online video \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/asia/miss-usa-comments-summers-intl/index.html\">posted Wednesday\u003c/a>, Summers and the contestants from Colombia and Australia \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/asia/miss-usa-comments-summers-intl/index.html\">talk about Miss Vietnam\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s so cute,” Summers says. “And she pretends to know so much English, and then you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her, and she goes [smiles blankly and nods]. She’s adorable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Cambodia is here and doesn’t speak any English and not a single other person speaks her language. Can you imagine?” Summers says in another clip. “Francesca [Miss Australia] said that would be so isolating, and I said yes, and just confusing all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor Cambodia,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prominent fashion Instagram account, Diet Prada, shared the video and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BrUHzaZlD9O/\">compared\u003c/a> Summers to \u003cem>Mean Girls\u003c/em> mean girl Regina George, writing: “This is basically what normalized xenophobia looks like. If she’s trying to show empathy, the condescending, intolerant tone tells a different story. A reminder that you’re participating in a competition in a country/continent where English is NOT the primary language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers later \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVhYAEhq_8/\">posted a picture\u003c/a> to Instagram in which she is hugging Miss Cambodia, Rern Sinat, and said she had learned from the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a moment where I intended to admire the courage of a few of my sisters, I said something that I now realize can be perceived as not respectful, and I apologize,” Summers wrote. “My life, friendships, and career revolve around me being a compassionate and empathetic woman. I would never intend to hurt another. I am grateful for opportunities to speak with Nat, Miss Cambodia, and H’Hen, Miss Vietnam, directly about this experience. These are the moments that matter most to me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Late for the ball, but right on time for the grand tour\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best story from this year’s pageant — and honestly, we have no idea how there is this much Miss Universe news — is the tale of a contestant who never stepped onto the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miss Sierra Leone, Marie Esther Bangura, had to travel to Ghana and then Nigeria to apply for a Thai visa. That took two weeks, and she arrived in Bangkok a few days too late to compete, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/social-and-lifestyle/1595246/thai-fans-fall-for-miss-sierra-leone\">according\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>Bangkok Post\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local Thais were sympathetic to her plight. 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The pageant, then owned by Donald Trump, changed its policy following blowback after Canadian officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/04/10/150350652/miss-universe-pageant-will-allow-transgendered-women-to-compete\">disqualified a contestant\u003c/a> when they learned she was trans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m competing because it’s what I’ve wanted to do since I was a little girl,” Ponce told \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>. “I’m showing that trans women can be whatever they want to be: a teacher, a mother, a doctor, a politician and even Miss Universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ponce, 27, didn’t make it past the first round of the competition, but she was feted with a special tribute during the finals. A video showed Ponce’s path to the current moment, including her account of bullying she experienced as a child. At last, Ponce walked onto the stage and held her Spain sash aloft while she clutched her heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miss USA says she is sorry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Miss USA, Sarah Rose Summers, was criticized for remarks about two of her fellow contestants that struck some as condescending and xenophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an online video \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/asia/miss-usa-comments-summers-intl/index.html\">posted Wednesday\u003c/a>, Summers and the contestants from Colombia and Australia \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/asia/miss-usa-comments-summers-intl/index.html\">talk about Miss Vietnam\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s so cute,” Summers says. “And she pretends to know so much English, and then you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her, and she goes [smiles blankly and nods]. She’s adorable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Cambodia is here and doesn’t speak any English and not a single other person speaks her language. Can you imagine?” Summers says in another clip. “Francesca [Miss Australia] said that would be so isolating, and I said yes, and just confusing all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor Cambodia,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prominent fashion Instagram account, Diet Prada, shared the video and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BrUHzaZlD9O/\">compared\u003c/a> Summers to \u003cem>Mean Girls\u003c/em> mean girl Regina George, writing: “This is basically what normalized xenophobia looks like. If she’s trying to show empathy, the condescending, intolerant tone tells a different story. A reminder that you’re participating in a competition in a country/continent where English is NOT the primary language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers later \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVhYAEhq_8/\">posted a picture\u003c/a> to Instagram in which she is hugging Miss Cambodia, Rern Sinat, and said she had learned from the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a moment where I intended to admire the courage of a few of my sisters, I said something that I now realize can be perceived as not respectful, and I apologize,” Summers wrote. “My life, friendships, and career revolve around me being a compassionate and empathetic woman. I would never intend to hurt another. I am grateful for opportunities to speak with Nat, Miss Cambodia, and H’Hen, Miss Vietnam, directly about this experience. These are the moments that matter most to me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Late for the ball, but right on time for the grand tour\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best story from this year’s pageant — and honestly, we have no idea how there is this much Miss Universe news — is the tale of a contestant who never stepped onto the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miss Sierra Leone, Marie Esther Bangura, had to travel to Ghana and then Nigeria to apply for a Thai visa. That took two weeks, and she arrived in Bangkok a few days too late to compete, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/social-and-lifestyle/1595246/thai-fans-fall-for-miss-sierra-leone\">according\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>Bangkok Post\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local Thais were sympathetic to her plight. 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Her death sparked protests, with immigrant and LGBTQ advocates saying her case underscores concerns that transgender migrants in detention facilities often do not receive adequate medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris, along with Sens. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lately we've been noting the reality-bending statements made by President Trump and those in his administration on matters of the environment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1929060/trumps-confusing-tweets-on-california-fires-now-appear-to-be-actual-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928770/no-president-trump-calif-isnt-diverting-its-water-supply-away-from-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1929627/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-says-california-fires-have-nothing-to-do-with-climate-change-hes-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earth\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/trump-s-effort-roll-back-auto-efficiency-rules-could-hinge-debate-over-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air\u003c/a> — you might say that for science journalists, fact-checking this presidency is now elemental.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'For decades, researchers have recognized that gender is not necessarily determined by a person’s biological sex assigned at birth, which can be physiologically uncertain in some cases.'\u003ccite>American Psychological Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now comes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times report\u003c/a> that the administration is wading into a new area: the complex interplay between biology and gender. On Sunday the paper said that the Dept. of Health and Human Services wants to establish a definition of a person's gender, one that is determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable,” as the paper quoted an HHS memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth,” the memo said. “The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, your genitals at birth determine your gender. End of discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move aims to reverse civil rights protections granted to transgender people under the Obama administration, the Times said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would also appear to create an official position by the United States government that transgender people simply don't, well, exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is going to be news to the roughly \u003ca href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.4 million transgender individuals\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Psychological Association wasted no time in issuing a response to the report. On Monday, it said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/10/erase-transgender-definition.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, researchers have recognized that gender is not necessarily determined by a person’s biological sex assigned at birth, which can be physiologically uncertain in some cases. Purposely ignoring this body of evidence is indefensible and certain to add to the stress and discrimination already experienced by transgender people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, a pediatric endocrinologist and the medical director of UCSF's Child and Adolescent Gender Center, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"A\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> typical transgender person has genitalia that are not in any way obviously abnormal,\" he said. \"And not in any way a clue that that person is going to end up transgender.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genitalia, he said, does not always predict gender identity, and other physical characteristics most likely contribute to people's fundamental sense of whether they are male, female or some variant. Rosenthal cited a number of studies showing \u003cspan class=\"s1\">certain parts of the brain, shaped differently in men and women, that are more closely aligned with the gender identity of transgender individuals than with their natal sex. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research suggests that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/the-biological-roots-of-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genetic and endocrinological differences \u003c/a>in transgender people play a role in forming a gender identity that is different than their external sexual characteristics might indicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HHS memo's proposition that genetic testing would clear up any dispute around a person's gender is also wrongheaded, said Rosenthal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A\u003cspan class=\"s1\">nyone, even high school students, know that there are plenty of examples of women with female bodies, female genitalia, let's say, and an unequivocal female gender identity, who happen to have XY chromosomes,\" he said, referring to the chromosomal pair typically found in males.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HHS memo would also seem to ignore intersex people — those individuals born with a mix of physical characteristics typically found in only males or females. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.academia.edu/21132481/How_sexually_dimorphic_are_we_Review_and_synthesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2000 review\u003c/a> of the scientific literature by Brown University researchers looked at these deviations from the norm in people born from 1955 on. The survey took into account \u003cspan class=\"a\">chromosomes, gonadal structure, hormone lev\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"a\">els, internal genital structure and external geni\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"a\">tal\u003cspan class=\"l6\">ia, finding that as many as 2 percent of newborns contain some biological trait normally associated with the opposite sex. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the researchers, the biologist Ann Fausto Sterling, put it this way in a seminal 1993 \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Fausto-Sterling/publication/239657377_The_Five_Sexes_Why_Male_and_Female_are_not_Enough/links/00b7d525802a725b6b000000/The-Five-Sexes-Why-Male-and-Female-are-not-Enough.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>If the state and the legal system have an interest in maintaining a two-party sexual system, they are in defiance of nature. For biologically speaking, there are many gradations running from female to male; and depending on how one calls the shots, one can argue that along that spectrum lie at least five sexes — and perhaps even more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/?fbclid=IwAR01v8tv0iW4E7ve5UEXi-9SrR2ltvAzQBS9PoREKCXREKChBMp-62KoKDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientific American\u003c/a> took note of the mounting evidence of a male-female biological spectrum. \"To varying extents, many of us are biological hybrids on a male-female continuum,\" wrote the editors. \"As science looks more closely ... it becomes increasingly clear that a pair of chromosomes do not always suffice to distinguish girl/boy — either from the standpoint of sex (biological traits) or of gender (social identity).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gender Identity: Biopsychosocial\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, of course, has moved beyond tying individuals' biological sexual characteristics to their gender identity. Last year, the state made it easier to officially change genders and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/436110/california-third-gender-nonbinary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added a new category\u003c/a> called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/335790/boy-girl-both-neither-a-new-generation-overthrows-gender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonbinary\u003c/a>\" to the \"male\" and \"female\" options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers often describe the roots of gender identity as a complex mix of factors that are \"biopsychosocial.\" Surveys in recent years have revealed younger generations as accepting of more customizable views of gender, with some individuals even eschewing the pronouns \"he\" and \"she\" in favor of \"they\" to indicate the duality or fluidity of their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Tate, a gender researcher at San Francisco State University, said it's time to move on from debates like the one the Trump administration is trying to foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Historically, science about gender has contained lots of errors that needed to be corrected or discarded,\" she wrote in an email. \"Pretending that gender identity can be reduced to a person’s genitals is one of those errors that we needed to discard in order to move forward in a way that is scientifically productive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lately we've been noting the reality-bending statements made by President Trump and those in his administration on matters of the environment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1929060/trumps-confusing-tweets-on-california-fires-now-appear-to-be-actual-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1928770/no-president-trump-calif-isnt-diverting-its-water-supply-away-from-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1929627/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-says-california-fires-have-nothing-to-do-with-climate-change-hes-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earth\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/trump-s-effort-roll-back-auto-efficiency-rules-could-hinge-debate-over-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air\u003c/a> — you might say that for science journalists, fact-checking this presidency is now elemental.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'For decades, researchers have recognized that gender is not necessarily determined by a person’s biological sex assigned at birth, which can be physiologically uncertain in some cases.'\u003ccite>American Psychological Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now comes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times report\u003c/a> that the administration is wading into a new area: the complex interplay between biology and gender. On Sunday the paper said that the Dept. of Health and Human Services wants to establish a definition of a person's gender, one that is determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable,” as the paper quoted an HHS memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth,” the memo said. “The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, your genitals at birth determine your gender. End of discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move aims to reverse civil rights protections granted to transgender people under the Obama administration, the Times said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would also appear to create an official position by the United States government that transgender people simply don't, well, exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is going to be news to the roughly \u003ca href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.4 million transgender individuals\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Psychological Association wasted no time in issuing a response to the report. On Monday, it said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/10/erase-transgender-definition.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, researchers have recognized that gender is not necessarily determined by a person’s biological sex assigned at birth, which can be physiologically uncertain in some cases. Purposely ignoring this body of evidence is indefensible and certain to add to the stress and discrimination already experienced by transgender people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, a pediatric endocrinologist and the medical director of UCSF's Child and Adolescent Gender Center, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"A\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> typical transgender person has genitalia that are not in any way obviously abnormal,\" he said. \"And not in any way a clue that that person is going to end up transgender.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genitalia, he said, does not always predict gender identity, and other physical characteristics most likely contribute to people's fundamental sense of whether they are male, female or some variant. Rosenthal cited a number of studies showing \u003cspan class=\"s1\">certain parts of the brain, shaped differently in men and women, that are more closely aligned with the gender identity of transgender individuals than with their natal sex. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research suggests that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/the-biological-roots-of-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genetic and endocrinological differences \u003c/a>in transgender people play a role in forming a gender identity that is different than their external sexual characteristics might indicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HHS memo's proposition that genetic testing would clear up any dispute around a person's gender is also wrongheaded, said Rosenthal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A\u003cspan class=\"s1\">nyone, even high school students, know that there are plenty of examples of women with female bodies, female genitalia, let's say, and an unequivocal female gender identity, who happen to have XY chromosomes,\" he said, referring to the chromosomal pair typically found in males.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HHS memo would also seem to ignore intersex people — those individuals born with a mix of physical characteristics typically found in only males or females. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.academia.edu/21132481/How_sexually_dimorphic_are_we_Review_and_synthesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2000 review\u003c/a> of the scientific literature by Brown University researchers looked at these deviations from the norm in people born from 1955 on. The survey took into account \u003cspan class=\"a\">chromosomes, gonadal structure, hormone lev\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"a\">els, internal genital structure and external geni\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"a\">tal\u003cspan class=\"l6\">ia, finding that as many as 2 percent of newborns contain some biological trait normally associated with the opposite sex. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the researchers, the biologist Ann Fausto Sterling, put it this way in a seminal 1993 \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Fausto-Sterling/publication/239657377_The_Five_Sexes_Why_Male_and_Female_are_not_Enough/links/00b7d525802a725b6b000000/The-Five-Sexes-Why-Male-and-Female-are-not-Enough.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>If the state and the legal system have an interest in maintaining a two-party sexual system, they are in defiance of nature. For biologically speaking, there are many gradations running from female to male; and depending on how one calls the shots, one can argue that along that spectrum lie at least five sexes — and perhaps even more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/?fbclid=IwAR01v8tv0iW4E7ve5UEXi-9SrR2ltvAzQBS9PoREKCXREKChBMp-62KoKDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientific American\u003c/a> took note of the mounting evidence of a male-female biological spectrum. \"To varying extents, many of us are biological hybrids on a male-female continuum,\" wrote the editors. \"As science looks more closely ... it becomes increasingly clear that a pair of chromosomes do not always suffice to distinguish girl/boy — either from the standpoint of sex (biological traits) or of gender (social identity).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gender Identity: Biopsychosocial\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, of course, has moved beyond tying individuals' biological sexual characteristics to their gender identity. Last year, the state made it easier to officially change genders and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/436110/california-third-gender-nonbinary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added a new category\u003c/a> called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/335790/boy-girl-both-neither-a-new-generation-overthrows-gender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonbinary\u003c/a>\" to the \"male\" and \"female\" options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers often describe the roots of gender identity as a complex mix of factors that are \"biopsychosocial.\" Surveys in recent years have revealed younger generations as accepting of more customizable views of gender, with some individuals even eschewing the pronouns \"he\" and \"she\" in favor of \"they\" to indicate the duality or fluidity of their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Tate, a gender researcher at San Francisco State University, said it's time to move on from debates like the one the Trump administration is trying to foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Historically, science about gender has contained lots of errors that needed to be corrected or discarded,\" she wrote in an email. \"Pretending that gender identity can be reduced to a person’s genitals is one of those errors that we needed to discard in order to move forward in a way that is scientifically productive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday suggested a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700270/trump-move-to-redefine-gender-could-lead-to-david-and-goliath-battle-with-transgender-californians\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration proposal\u003c/a> that would define someone’s sex at birth risked heightening stigma around transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The director, Robert Redfield, did not directly criticize the proposal. But when asked whether any such effort might hamper efforts to treat HIV, especially among transgender women, he replied: “We need to understand that stigmatizing illness, stigmatizing individuals is not in the interest of public health.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"mVeGOCjwCxD05uYuQsgkbTz0xWyggdvD\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made the remarks in an interview with STAT Executive Editor Rick Berke at the opening session of the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">Redfield said he was not involved in developing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the policy\u003c/a>, which was first reported by the New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">The proposal was criticized by scientists, who pointed out that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/22/scientists-see-a-problem-with-trump-plan-on-defining-sex-biology/\">stands in contradiction to basic biology\u003c/a>, which recognizes that many individuals are born with sex chromosomes or genitalia that don’t conform to the social definitions of “male” and “female.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump addressed the issue Monday, telling reporters that the administration is “looking at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of different concepts right now,” Trump said. “They have a lot of different things happening with respect to transgender right now. You know that as well as I do and we’re looking at it very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, has declined to comment on the substance of the proposal directly. On Monday, the Washington Post reported that, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-administration-considering-different-concepts-regarding-transgender-rights-with-some-pushing-back-internally/2018/10/22/0668f4da-d624-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.5da392e86f59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HHS is backing the proposal\u003c/a>, the Department of Education is pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfield also argued that stigma is harmful more broadly, saying that it interferes with actually treating a disease, such as addiction to opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the stigma around opioid use now is greater than the stigma around AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nothing compared to what we’re confronting with drug use,” Redfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, the issue is personal — his son has been in recovery for drug use for three years.[contextly_sidebar id=\"SSyvhjTE85ossB5jaH387kntcvQgQVWT\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pray for him every day,” Redfield said. “People don’t realize that addiction is a medical condition, it’s not a moral failing. People don’t realize it’s a chronic medical condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfield compared it to another disease, like cancer. We don’t stigmatize people whose cancer goes into remission and then flares back up, he said, so why do we stigmatize people who relapse after treatment for drug use?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that treatment for addiction should be integrated into primary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/23/cdc-director-on-trump-transgender-proposal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">story\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Any dispute about one’s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"None of us were surprised by that memo,\" said Cecilia Chung, co-director of programs and policy with the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest move by the Trump administration to limit or repeal protections and rights for transgender people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Times, \"The Department of Health and Human Services has called on the 'Big Four' agencies that enforce some part of Title IX — the Departments of Education, Justice, Health and Human Services, and Labor — to adopt its definition in regulations that will establish uniformity in the government and increase the likelihood that courts will accept it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) expressed alarm about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By defining gender as birth-assigned gender only, the Trump administration is trying to erase transgender people out of existence — consistent with the Administration's effort to erase LGBT people from health surveys and the census,\" Wiener said in a statement late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This action will have profound consequences. More trans children will commit suicide. More trans people will be assaulted and murdered. Trans people will be less healthy and less visible,\" Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trump wants us to be invisible — to go away. We won't go away. And, California will continue to fully embrace our trans brothers and sisters and LGBT people generally,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chung said the impact of the move would be blunted in California due to protections for transgender people in health care, education, employment and housing that are enshrined in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, according to Chung, it could have other impacts, like making it harder for transgender people to access health services, such as HIV prevention and treatment. She said the Department of Health and Human Services allocates resources for those services based on which groups are most affected and changing the definition of gender to exclude transgender people would make it harder for them to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think that it would make us extinct, but it would certainly make us more invisible,\" Chung said, \"and in that case, it becomes an equity issue because you can't allocate resources to an invisible community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chung said the potential change is most likely to have an impact in counties and cities that are more traditionally conservative, where schools in particular are less likely to have strong protections in place for transgender students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Transgender Law Center is willing to go to court if the policy leads to discrimination in California schools against transgender kids, and she's confident that the change would be deemed unconstitutional based on previous court rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the best analogy I can give is to see the administration as this big bully, and since the transgender and gender non-confirming community is a minority, that sets up this whole David and Goliath dynamic,\" she said. \"But of course, in the end, we know that David wins. We are very confident that justice and the constitution are on our side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic in San Francisco, said the administration’s stance would end up harming transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell them ‘You don’t exist and you can’t live your life accordingly, like using the bathroom to match who you are,’ is to increase the alarmingly high rates of risk that are there already,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft said transgender kids who are not supported will frequently experience anxiety, depression and impulses to self-harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not because they’re transgender, it’s because of how people treat them. This draft will ensure they are not treated well and their risk rates are going to go way up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On surveys, U.S. transgender adults have reported attempting suicide at a \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rate of around 40 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One local parent of a 7-year-old transgender girl said she was \"horrified\" by the language of the administration's memorandum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For [transgender children] to have to hear the words coming from their government that were sent out yesterday is heartbreaking,\" said Molly, who lives in the East Bay and didn't want her last name used for reasons of privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want them to know that they are seen and celebrated and loved, and they exist, and that there is no way they're going away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. Jon Brooks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Is Three Too Young for Children to Know They're a Different Gender? Transgender Researchers Disagree",
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"content": "\u003caside>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Many gender clinicians now recommend parents 'socially transition' kids who persistently express a transgender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>But research has shown most children will give up their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Not all researchers agree, though, that this research is valid.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gracie is the youngest transgender person I've ever met. She's so young, she still likes to tack on \"and-a-half\" when giving her age, which is six. One day last summer, bouncing all over the grounds at day camp, she looked as delighted as you'd expect any kid would on \"Water Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-research-on-desistance-in-transgender-youth\">The Controversial Research on 'Desistance' in Transgender Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is Rainbow Day Camp, in the East Bay town of El Cerrito. It was created specifically to be a safe place for transgender kids, and in fact, being transgender is so unremarkable here, when I asked Gracie what makes it “special,\" she shrugged and said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get to do fun stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Molly, tried to coax a reporter-friendly answer out of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is special about you, and the same as everybody else in the camp?” she prompted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” Gracie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What if we let our son walk into the world in a dress with fairy wings, and crowns, and high heels, and even just in regular girl clothes … and then he changes his mind?'\u003ccite>Molly, whose 6-year-old daughter, Gracie, socially transitioned at age four\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You’re transgender and there’s other kids that are transgender, too...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m transgender and there’s other kids that are transgender, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, kids. ... But when I asked Gracie how she \u003cem>used\u003c/em> to feel, when other people thought she was a boy, she got straight to the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not right to me, and I didn’t want people to say that, but they said it,” she said. “It hurted my feelings a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did it make her angry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it just made me sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"mailto:jbrooks@kqed.org\">Email the reporter\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>How about now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels happy to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, in a child’s nutshell, sums up one side of a contentious debate about the right age for transgender children to begin what gender clinicians call “social transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5Yankf1GY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even Three-Year-Olds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met Gracie, she was a few months out of kindergarten — pretty young for a transgender kid, I thought. Gracie lives with her parents and younger brother in a small city in the East Bay. She is already two years into her transition, having started her public life as a girl at four. The family began by discarding her boy name and referring to Gracie as “she” and “her.” She was also allowed to wear girl clothes outside the home, and her parents changed the gender on her birth certificate to avoid confusion at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\u003cstrong>How young is too young?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUCSF’s Diane Ehrensaft, one of the leading proponents of socially transitioning transgender children, believes there is no minimum age, really, to pursue such a change.'For all of these interventions, our model is stages not ages,” she said. 'When a child is at the place in their life that they can get themselves in focus, help us see them, and are clear, consistent, and stable in both their representation of themselves, and also can express their desires of how they want to live their gender, that's the age.'We have seen some kids as young as two whose parents are bringing them in because they're beginning to say, ‘Me not boy. Me girl.’ Social transition can happen as soon as a child has language or the ability to communicate to us who they are.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steps like these make up the “social” aspects of social, not medical, transitioning. The distinction is important: According to Endocrine Society \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines\u003c/a>, patients who want to begin medical treatment like puberty blockers, hormones or surgery should be old enough to give “informed consent,” which the organization says is usually attained by 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therapists at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/clinics/child_and_adolescent_gender_center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic\u003c/a> in San Francisco told me they’ve socially transitioned kids as young as three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Ehrensaft, the San Francisco Center’s mental health director and a leading proponent of early social transitioning, acknowledges this approach has been controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people that think folks like myself, and the people at our clinic, have fallen off the deep end,” she told me. She wasn’t just talking about the religious right, either. She was referring to other mental health professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I myself experienced a fair bit of surprise when Ehrensaft told me how young these kids are. My first, reflexive comment was a simple, \"Wow.\" This was not an uncommon reaction when I discussed this story with people in my own life, even in the progressive Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when I spoke with Gracie’s mom, Molly (the family didn't want their last name used for reasons of privacy), nothing about the decision to allow her then-son to publicly make the switch to a girl, at an age when many kids are still sucking their thumbs, sounded in the slightest bit rash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke at Rainbow Day Camp, in a classroom set aside for interviews. The children’s art adorning the walls, the shrimpy seats — it felt like a place to talk about kickball, not the gender identity of first graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet here we were.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>The Biological Roots of Gender Identity\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMolly is the mother of two children, a 3-year-old boy and a 7-year-old transgender girl. The younger child is the “stereotype of what I thought having a son would be like,” she said. “He loves trucks, cars, construction, superheroes and destroying the house.”Her first child, also born male, just did not develop in the same way. Rather, from the time he acquired language on, he protested that he was really a girl. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/the-biological-roots-of-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading)\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“What if we do this?” Molly recalled asking a gender therapist, back when they were debating the pros and cons of letting Gracie transition. “What if we let our son walk into the world in a dress with fairy wings, and crowns, and high heels, and even just in regular girl clothes … and then he changes his mind?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not the question,” the therapist told Molly. “The question is, what if you don't do it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only semi-rhetorical. Some gender therapists say there are serious potential dangers if adults suppress a child’s desired transition. On surveys, American transgender adults have reported attempting suicide at the startling \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rate\u003c/a> of around 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes couldn’t have been higher, Molly knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow Day Camp, recalling that time, she started to cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I knew there was even a chance that my kid could feel ashamed of who they are, there was no way … ” Her voice cracked into a higher register. “I had to support, I had to listen, and I had to let her steer, a little bit, the ship. Period. No matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_441862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-441862 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1020x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1020x527.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-800x414.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-768x397.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1200x620.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1180x610.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-960x496.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-375x194.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-520x269.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie, six, on Water Day at Rainbow Day Camp, which was created as a safe space for transgender kids. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I’m a Girl’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft calls children like Gracie “persistent, consistent, and insistent” in their declarations of cross-gender identity. For Gracie, this manifested through words, wishes, and, well, practically everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Why would we deny for the vast majority of kids something that is basically suicide prevention?'\u003ccite>Diane Ehrensaft, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gracie was her parents' first child. From toddlerhood on, Molly said, their son had displayed a “constant obsession and fixation on all things girl. As soon as she could tell us, it was, ‘I'm a girl. I'm a sister. I'm a daughter. I'm that girl on that show. I'm that girl in that book.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gracie's parents weren’t on board at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We filled her world with trucks, and dinosaurs, and superheroes, and we refused girl things,” Molly said. “Like, ‘No, you can't be Elsa for Halloween. You have to be Superman. No, you can't have the dolls for Christmas. We're going to get you a pirate ship.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also made a rule: No girl clothing outside the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly tells me: “That’s the part I’m ashamed of now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'These Kids Do Come Forward'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly and her husband finally relented — they just could not deny how much happier their child felt when recognized as a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_441832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/Phoenix5-e1527011026777.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-441832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/Phoenix5-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix, a transgender girl who began wearing dresses to school at age 5. She began made a complete social transition at the start of second grade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I asked: Has Gracie ever looked back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly chuckled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think of gender as a spectrum, she is like a full, all-the-way girl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not rocket science, Ehrensaft explained, if you really listen to the children. “A child will say: ‘Stop calling me Jane. Let me wear my dresses. Please call me she.’ That's a child making a clear statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Olson, a University of Washington gender researcher, said parents do not always listen to what their kids are telling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones that are most likely to transition are kids who for many years are very consistently saying this is who they are,” she said. ”We often see this happen for years before parents socially transition their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF gender specialist Erica Anderson recently treated a five-year-old who had reached a point of desperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the bathtub, he would compare himself to his younger sister, and really start getting upset. At one point he went in the bathroom with a pair of shears — he was going to cut his penis off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This child has been so clear for a couple of years,” Anderson said. “These kids do come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Approaches\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender clinicians who recommend social transition at such an early age call their model “gender affirmative,” and they believe their approach is now ascendant. Historically, clinicians more commonly treated transgender kids by discouraging cross-gender identity. The method was most famously practiced by longtime gender researcher Ken Zucker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zucker is now an extraordinarily controversial figure in the transgender community. He believed that an outcome in which a child becomes transgender should be avoided, if possible. You can get a glimpse of his methods in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2008/05/07/90247842/two-families-grapple-with-sons-gender-preferences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR story\u003c/a> from 2008. Zucker is counseling the family of a young boy he’d diagnosed with gender identity disorder, the term used for gender dysphoria before 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Zucker explained to Carol that she and her husband would have to radically change their parenting. Bradley would no longer be allowed to spend time with girls. He would no longer be allowed to play with girlish toys or pretend that he was a female character. Zucker said that all of these activities were dangerous to a kid with gender identity disorder. He explained that unless Carol and her husband helped the child to change his behavior, as Bradley grew older, he likely would be rejected by both peer groups.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other researchers and transgender activists have criticized this approach as too close to the “conversion therapy” inflicted on gay and lesbian youth, a practice that is now illegal in a number of states, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/State-bans-gay-repair-therapy-for-minors-3906032.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername='science' align='right']The World Professional Association for Transgender Health's guidelines for clinicians, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Standards of Care\u003c/a>, states that “treatment aimed at trying to change a person’s gender identity and expression to become more congruent with sex assigned at birth” is “no longer considered ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zucker was the psychologist-in-chief and head of the gender identity clinic at a Toronto mental health hospital before administrators shut down the clinic in 2015, after a review of his practices. That was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/alleged-exchange-with-gender-identity-doctor-didnt-happen-camh-says/article28471923/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial\u003c/a>, and Zucker is suing his former employer for defamation. (Zucker declined to comment for this article. For a defense of his work, you can read Jesse Singal’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a> from 2016.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watchful Waiting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zucker’s approach aside, there is another alternative to gender affirmative therapy. It’s the approach taken by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vumc.com/branch/gender-dysphoria/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria\u003c/a> in Amsterdam, and gender specialists commonly refer to it as the “Dutch Model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This treatment sometimes involves the social transition of young children, according to Thomas Steensma, a researcher and clinician at the center. But for the most part, its counseling incorporates the idea that the vast majority of gender dysphoric children will eventually stop identifying as transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research literature calls these individuals “desistant.” The kids who retain their transgender identity as they grow up are dubbed “persistent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Desistance Controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing roils the world of transgender research like the topic of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-research-on-desistance-in-transgender-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desistance\u003c/a>. Brynn Tannehill, a transgender activist who follows the research closely, said the concept is often used by anti-LGBT groups to make the case that rejecting children’s transgender identity is in their best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[Desistance research] is used primarily as an attack on the validity of transgender identities, which usually quickly disintegrates into a debate on whether we should exist.' \u003ccite>Brynn Tannehill, transgender activist\u003c/cite>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It is used primarily as an attack on the validity of transgender identities, which usually quickly disintegrates into a debate on whether we should exist,” Tannehill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the fact is that just about every published study on the topic to date has found that a majority of children who once reported various degrees of gender dysphoria ended up eventually giving up their transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To grasp the implications of this, remember Molly’s anxious questioning of the gender therapist: What if we go through all this, and it turns out to be just a phase? Shouldn’t we wait?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gender affirmative camp says no. That’s because it doesn’t believe that the body of research on desistance, some of it conducted by Zucker and his associates, is valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many gender researchers maintain that the current criteria for diagnosing gender dysphoria are much more stringent than in the past. Therefore, many of the studies that found so many kids had \"grown out\" of their transgender identity were actually measuring children who were \u003cem>never really transgender\u003c/em> in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of those studies are decades old,” said gender researcher Kristina Olson. “So if you had a son in the early 1980s who liked playing with dolls and wanted to occasionally wear a dress, even today maybe you would think to bring that child to talk to a doctor about it. But that child wouldn't necessarily be transgender, because that kid doesn't necessarily think of himself as a girl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft said that her San Francisco clinic sees “a tiny, tiny proportion” of clients who stop identifying as transgender after transitioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the Amsterdam clinic’s Thomas Steensma, who firmly believes most gender dysphoric kids will \u003cem>not\u003c/em> grow up to be transgender, acknowledged the earlier studies probably included “milder cases” that are “hard to compare with the clinical samples we see now in our clinics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_441834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-441834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-520x693.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia, a transgender girl who socially transitioned when she was four, and her brother, James, who transitioned when he was eight. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he said, “The only evidence I have from studies and reports in the literature ... is that children who struggle with gender incongruence … will not all persist into adolescence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Steensma over Skype, he seemed bemused by the fact that the “Dutch model” is now considered conservative compared to what has taken hold in America. After all, his Amsterdam clinic had been a pioneer in the medical treatment of transgender youth, especially in the use of puberty blockers, which delay the onset of secondary sex characteristics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about the \u003cem>social transitioning\u003c/em> of young kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a 'yes' or a 'no' in our opinion, but a 'maybe,' Steensma told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered if there was any real argument between him and Ehrensaft, after all. So I described to him the case of persistent, insistent, consistent Gracie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slam dunk for social transition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steensma said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would counsel them ... that it's okay to express your feelings, your interests, to show your behaviors. But with certain steps like a name change, or a pronoun change, with a result that maybe others will only perceive you as a girl — that's somewhere where we say, ‘Okay, maybe you should explore things without taking steps that are hard to reverse.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are mental health professionals in the U.S. who agree. Dr. Jack Drescher is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University; he served on the American Psychiatric Association's committee that revised the diagnosis of gender identity disorder in 2013. He said gender affirmative therapists have never proven they can successfully identify those kids who will stick with transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are some people that think folks like myself, and the people at our clinic, have fallen off the deep end.”\u003ccite>Diane Ehrensaft, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He also says there’s no evidence to back a corollary belief, that kids who might later need to “detransition” back to their original gender will not suffer any long-lasting psychological effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what they believe, but it's not based on research,” he said of gender affirmative clinicians. “This is a meme, not really a piece of scientific finding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steensma concurred: “If a child transitions, it is not just, ‘Oh, we do the transition and we go on with our life.’ It has a huge impact on the child, on the family and their environment.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current Standards of Care, issued by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health in 2011, are more or less in accordance with this view, as even Ehrensaft acknowledges. The guidelines describe “relatively low persistence rates” as “relevant” to helping parents weigh the decision to socially transition. The standards also state that “a change back to the original gender role can be highly distressing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing everyone in the field agrees on is more research is needed. Almost every gender specialist I spoke with cited Kristina Olson’s longitudinal study at the University of Washington as critical to answering some of these hotly debated unknowns. Olson recently received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, which she's using to expand the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary research coming out of the project has already provided good news for the families of transgender kids. In a pair of studies published over the last several years, Olson and her colleagues found that socially transitioned children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 14 did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/153172/transgender-children-living-openly-are-doing-well-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not experience\u003c/a> any more depression than separate control groups of peers and siblings, as well as the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transgender health association is now gearing up to revise the Standards of Care. Both Steensma, known for “watchful waiting,” and Ehrensaft, of the gender affirmative school, are on the committee in charge of the section about children. The jockeying to influence the direction of the committee has already begun, as evidenced by the critical \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentaries\u003c/a> now appearing in academic \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15532739.2017.1414649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My prediction is that there will be more endorsement of social transitions at earlier ages, without the cautionary tales,” Ehrensaft said of the upcoming revision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Not Just Numbers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes down to it, when we talk about the controversy over socially transitioning young kids, we are talking about risk analysis. Which is more disruptive and potentially harmful: to deny children their genuinely felt gender identity in the present moment, until the adults are \u003cem>absolutely sure\u003c/em> it will stick? Or to validate a child’s persistent, consistent and insistent protestations that ‘\u003cem>Hey, someone has made a terrible mistake here,\u003c/em>’ even if they eventually decide they no longer feel that way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft, at least, is clear on the answer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would we deny for the vast majority of kids something that is basically suicide prevention?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent, I wonder: If my daughter became incandescently happy when allowed to change her name and take on other aspects of being transgender — as happy as Molly describes Gracie becoming when recognized as a girl — what would I do? If some statistics indicated my child might one day switch back, but my deepest parental instincts told me to trust her joyfulness, could I ignore the latter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow Day Camp, I spoke to James, a 9-year-old transgender boy who’d transitioned during second grade. He told me matter-of-factly that he’d been bullied by older kids, who’d called him an “It.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he transitioned, his mother said, “There was just this comfort that came about him, and comfort's something that you can't really fake. He’s [just] a happier kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, before Gracie’s transition, family life was “lackluster,” Molly recalled. The constant tension drained the joy out of childhood for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never got to see that sort of sparkle, or that sort of magic of, like, a Christmas morning, or a Halloween, or just regular day-to-day happiness,” Molly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now she gets to really live.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” Gracie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What if we let our son walk into the world in a dress with fairy wings, and crowns, and high heels, and even just in regular girl clothes … and then he changes his mind?'\u003ccite>Molly, whose 6-year-old daughter, Gracie, socially transitioned at age four\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You’re transgender and there’s other kids that are transgender, too...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m transgender and there’s other kids that are transgender, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, kids. ... But when I asked Gracie how she \u003cem>used\u003c/em> to feel, when other people thought she was a boy, she got straight to the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not right to me, and I didn’t want people to say that, but they said it,” she said. “It hurted my feelings a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did it make her angry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it just made me sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"mailto:jbrooks@kqed.org\">Email the reporter\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>How about now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels happy to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, in a child’s nutshell, sums up one side of a contentious debate about the right age for transgender children to begin what gender clinicians call “social transitioning.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/IS5Yankf1GY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/IS5Yankf1GY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even Three-Year-Olds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met Gracie, she was a few months out of kindergarten — pretty young for a transgender kid, I thought. Gracie lives with her parents and younger brother in a small city in the East Bay. She is already two years into her transition, having started her public life as a girl at four. The family began by discarding her boy name and referring to Gracie as “she” and “her.” She was also allowed to wear girl clothes outside the home, and her parents changed the gender on her birth certificate to avoid confusion at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\u003cstrong>How young is too young?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUCSF’s Diane Ehrensaft, one of the leading proponents of socially transitioning transgender children, believes there is no minimum age, really, to pursue such a change.'For all of these interventions, our model is stages not ages,” she said. 'When a child is at the place in their life that they can get themselves in focus, help us see them, and are clear, consistent, and stable in both their representation of themselves, and also can express their desires of how they want to live their gender, that's the age.'We have seen some kids as young as two whose parents are bringing them in because they're beginning to say, ‘Me not boy. Me girl.’ Social transition can happen as soon as a child has language or the ability to communicate to us who they are.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steps like these make up the “social” aspects of social, not medical, transitioning. The distinction is important: According to Endocrine Society \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines\u003c/a>, patients who want to begin medical treatment like puberty blockers, hormones or surgery should be old enough to give “informed consent,” which the organization says is usually attained by 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therapists at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/clinics/child_and_adolescent_gender_center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic\u003c/a> in San Francisco told me they’ve socially transitioned kids as young as three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Ehrensaft, the San Francisco Center’s mental health director and a leading proponent of early social transitioning, acknowledges this approach has been controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people that think folks like myself, and the people at our clinic, have fallen off the deep end,” she told me. She wasn’t just talking about the religious right, either. She was referring to other mental health professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I myself experienced a fair bit of surprise when Ehrensaft told me how young these kids are. My first, reflexive comment was a simple, \"Wow.\" This was not an uncommon reaction when I discussed this story with people in my own life, even in the progressive Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when I spoke with Gracie’s mom, Molly (the family didn't want their last name used for reasons of privacy), nothing about the decision to allow her then-son to publicly make the switch to a girl, at an age when many kids are still sucking their thumbs, sounded in the slightest bit rash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke at Rainbow Day Camp, in a classroom set aside for interviews. The children’s art adorning the walls, the shrimpy seats — it felt like a place to talk about kickball, not the gender identity of first graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet here we were.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>The Biological Roots of Gender Identity\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMolly is the mother of two children, a 3-year-old boy and a 7-year-old transgender girl. The younger child is the “stereotype of what I thought having a son would be like,” she said. “He loves trucks, cars, construction, superheroes and destroying the house.”Her first child, also born male, just did not develop in the same way. Rather, from the time he acquired language on, he protested that he was really a girl. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/the-biological-roots-of-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading)\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“What if we do this?” Molly recalled asking a gender therapist, back when they were debating the pros and cons of letting Gracie transition. “What if we let our son walk into the world in a dress with fairy wings, and crowns, and high heels, and even just in regular girl clothes … and then he changes his mind?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not the question,” the therapist told Molly. “The question is, what if you don't do it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only semi-rhetorical. Some gender therapists say there are serious potential dangers if adults suppress a child’s desired transition. On surveys, American transgender adults have reported attempting suicide at the startling \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rate\u003c/a> of around 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes couldn’t have been higher, Molly knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow Day Camp, recalling that time, she started to cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I knew there was even a chance that my kid could feel ashamed of who they are, there was no way … ” Her voice cracked into a higher register. “I had to support, I had to listen, and I had to let her steer, a little bit, the ship. Period. No matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_441862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-441862 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1020x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1020x527.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-800x414.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-768x397.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1200x620.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-1180x610.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-960x496.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-375x194.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1-520x269.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/gracie-sliding-water-1.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie, six, on Water Day at Rainbow Day Camp, which was created as a safe space for transgender kids. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I’m a Girl’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft calls children like Gracie “persistent, consistent, and insistent” in their declarations of cross-gender identity. For Gracie, this manifested through words, wishes, and, well, practically everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Why would we deny for the vast majority of kids something that is basically suicide prevention?'\u003ccite>Diane Ehrensaft, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gracie was her parents' first child. From toddlerhood on, Molly said, their son had displayed a “constant obsession and fixation on all things girl. As soon as she could tell us, it was, ‘I'm a girl. I'm a sister. I'm a daughter. I'm that girl on that show. I'm that girl in that book.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gracie's parents weren’t on board at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We filled her world with trucks, and dinosaurs, and superheroes, and we refused girl things,” Molly said. “Like, ‘No, you can't be Elsa for Halloween. You have to be Superman. No, you can't have the dolls for Christmas. We're going to get you a pirate ship.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also made a rule: No girl clothing outside the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly tells me: “That’s the part I’m ashamed of now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'These Kids Do Come Forward'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly and her husband finally relented — they just could not deny how much happier their child felt when recognized as a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_441832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/Phoenix5-e1527011026777.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-441832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/Phoenix5-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix, a transgender girl who began wearing dresses to school at age 5. She began made a complete social transition at the start of second grade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I asked: Has Gracie ever looked back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly chuckled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think of gender as a spectrum, she is like a full, all-the-way girl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not rocket science, Ehrensaft explained, if you really listen to the children. “A child will say: ‘Stop calling me Jane. Let me wear my dresses. Please call me she.’ That's a child making a clear statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Olson, a University of Washington gender researcher, said parents do not always listen to what their kids are telling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones that are most likely to transition are kids who for many years are very consistently saying this is who they are,” she said. ”We often see this happen for years before parents socially transition their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF gender specialist Erica Anderson recently treated a five-year-old who had reached a point of desperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the bathtub, he would compare himself to his younger sister, and really start getting upset. At one point he went in the bathroom with a pair of shears — he was going to cut his penis off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This child has been so clear for a couple of years,” Anderson said. “These kids do come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Approaches\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender clinicians who recommend social transition at such an early age call their model “gender affirmative,” and they believe their approach is now ascendant. Historically, clinicians more commonly treated transgender kids by discouraging cross-gender identity. The method was most famously practiced by longtime gender researcher Ken Zucker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zucker is now an extraordinarily controversial figure in the transgender community. He believed that an outcome in which a child becomes transgender should be avoided, if possible. 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He explained that unless Carol and her husband helped the child to change his behavior, as Bradley grew older, he likely would be rejected by both peer groups.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other researchers and transgender activists have criticized this approach as too close to the “conversion therapy” inflicted on gay and lesbian youth, a practice that is now illegal in a number of states, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/State-bans-gay-repair-therapy-for-minors-3906032.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The World Professional Association for Transgender Health's guidelines for clinicians, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Standards of Care\u003c/a>, states that “treatment aimed at trying to change a person’s gender identity and expression to become more congruent with sex assigned at birth” is “no longer considered ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zucker was the psychologist-in-chief and head of the gender identity clinic at a Toronto mental health hospital before administrators shut down the clinic in 2015, after a review of his practices. That was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/alleged-exchange-with-gender-identity-doctor-didnt-happen-camh-says/article28471923/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial\u003c/a>, and Zucker is suing his former employer for defamation. (Zucker declined to comment for this article. For a defense of his work, you can read Jesse Singal’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a> from 2016.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watchful Waiting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zucker’s approach aside, there is another alternative to gender affirmative therapy. It’s the approach taken by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vumc.com/branch/gender-dysphoria/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria\u003c/a> in Amsterdam, and gender specialists commonly refer to it as the “Dutch Model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This treatment sometimes involves the social transition of young children, according to Thomas Steensma, a researcher and clinician at the center. But for the most part, its counseling incorporates the idea that the vast majority of gender dysphoric children will eventually stop identifying as transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research literature calls these individuals “desistant.” The kids who retain their transgender identity as they grow up are dubbed “persistent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Desistance Controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing roils the world of transgender research like the topic of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-research-on-desistance-in-transgender-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desistance\u003c/a>. Brynn Tannehill, a transgender activist who follows the research closely, said the concept is often used by anti-LGBT groups to make the case that rejecting children’s transgender identity is in their best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[Desistance research] is used primarily as an attack on the validity of transgender identities, which usually quickly disintegrates into a debate on whether we should exist.' \u003ccite>Brynn Tannehill, transgender activist\u003c/cite>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It is used primarily as an attack on the validity of transgender identities, which usually quickly disintegrates into a debate on whether we should exist,” Tannehill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the fact is that just about every published study on the topic to date has found that a majority of children who once reported various degrees of gender dysphoria ended up eventually giving up their transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To grasp the implications of this, remember Molly’s anxious questioning of the gender therapist: What if we go through all this, and it turns out to be just a phase? Shouldn’t we wait?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gender affirmative camp says no. That’s because it doesn’t believe that the body of research on desistance, some of it conducted by Zucker and his associates, is valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many gender researchers maintain that the current criteria for diagnosing gender dysphoria are much more stringent than in the past. Therefore, many of the studies that found so many kids had \"grown out\" of their transgender identity were actually measuring children who were \u003cem>never really transgender\u003c/em> in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of those studies are decades old,” said gender researcher Kristina Olson. “So if you had a son in the early 1980s who liked playing with dolls and wanted to occasionally wear a dress, even today maybe you would think to bring that child to talk to a doctor about it. But that child wouldn't necessarily be transgender, because that kid doesn't necessarily think of himself as a girl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft said that her San Francisco clinic sees “a tiny, tiny proportion” of clients who stop identifying as transgender after transitioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the Amsterdam clinic’s Thomas Steensma, who firmly believes most gender dysphoric kids will \u003cem>not\u003c/em> grow up to be transgender, acknowledged the earlier studies probably included “milder cases” that are “hard to compare with the clinical samples we see now in our clinics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_441834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-441834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/James-520x693.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia, a transgender girl who socially transitioned when she was four, and her brother, James, who transitioned when he was eight. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he said, “The only evidence I have from studies and reports in the literature ... is that children who struggle with gender incongruence … will not all persist into adolescence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Steensma over Skype, he seemed bemused by the fact that the “Dutch model” is now considered conservative compared to what has taken hold in America. After all, his Amsterdam clinic had been a pioneer in the medical treatment of transgender youth, especially in the use of puberty blockers, which delay the onset of secondary sex characteristics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about the \u003cem>social transitioning\u003c/em> of young kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a 'yes' or a 'no' in our opinion, but a 'maybe,' Steensma told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered if there was any real argument between him and Ehrensaft, after all. So I described to him the case of persistent, insistent, consistent Gracie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slam dunk for social transition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steensma said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would counsel them ... that it's okay to express your feelings, your interests, to show your behaviors. But with certain steps like a name change, or a pronoun change, with a result that maybe others will only perceive you as a girl — that's somewhere where we say, ‘Okay, maybe you should explore things without taking steps that are hard to reverse.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are mental health professionals in the U.S. who agree. Dr. Jack Drescher is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University; he served on the American Psychiatric Association's committee that revised the diagnosis of gender identity disorder in 2013. He said gender affirmative therapists have never proven they can successfully identify those kids who will stick with transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are some people that think folks like myself, and the people at our clinic, have fallen off the deep end.”\u003ccite>Diane Ehrensaft, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He also says there’s no evidence to back a corollary belief, that kids who might later need to “detransition” back to their original gender will not suffer any long-lasting psychological effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what they believe, but it's not based on research,” he said of gender affirmative clinicians. “This is a meme, not really a piece of scientific finding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steensma concurred: “If a child transitions, it is not just, ‘Oh, we do the transition and we go on with our life.’ It has a huge impact on the child, on the family and their environment.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current Standards of Care, issued by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health in 2011, are more or less in accordance with this view, as even Ehrensaft acknowledges. The guidelines describe “relatively low persistence rates” as “relevant” to helping parents weigh the decision to socially transition. The standards also state that “a change back to the original gender role can be highly distressing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing everyone in the field agrees on is more research is needed. Almost every gender specialist I spoke with cited Kristina Olson’s longitudinal study at the University of Washington as critical to answering some of these hotly debated unknowns. Olson recently received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, which she's using to expand the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary research coming out of the project has already provided good news for the families of transgender kids. In a pair of studies published over the last several years, Olson and her colleagues found that socially transitioned children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 14 did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/153172/transgender-children-living-openly-are-doing-well-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not experience\u003c/a> any more depression than separate control groups of peers and siblings, as well as the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transgender health association is now gearing up to revise the Standards of Care. Both Steensma, known for “watchful waiting,” and Ehrensaft, of the gender affirmative school, are on the committee in charge of the section about children. The jockeying to influence the direction of the committee has already begun, as evidenced by the critical \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentaries\u003c/a> now appearing in academic \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15532739.2017.1414649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My prediction is that there will be more endorsement of social transitions at earlier ages, without the cautionary tales,” Ehrensaft said of the upcoming revision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Not Just Numbers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes down to it, when we talk about the controversy over socially transitioning young kids, we are talking about risk analysis. Which is more disruptive and potentially harmful: to deny children their genuinely felt gender identity in the present moment, until the adults are \u003cem>absolutely sure\u003c/em> it will stick? Or to validate a child’s persistent, consistent and insistent protestations that ‘\u003cem>Hey, someone has made a terrible mistake here,\u003c/em>’ even if they eventually decide they no longer feel that way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrensaft, at least, is clear on the answer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would we deny for the vast majority of kids something that is basically suicide prevention?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent, I wonder: If my daughter became incandescently happy when allowed to change her name and take on other aspects of being transgender — as happy as Molly describes Gracie becoming when recognized as a girl — what would I do? If some statistics indicated my child might one day switch back, but my deepest parental instincts told me to trust her joyfulness, could I ignore the latter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow Day Camp, I spoke to James, a 9-year-old transgender boy who’d transitioned during second grade. He told me matter-of-factly that he’d been bullied by older kids, who’d called him an “It.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he transitioned, his mother said, “There was just this comfort that came about him, and comfort's something that you can't really fake. He’s [just] a happier kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, before Gracie’s transition, family life was “lackluster,” Molly recalled. The constant tension drained the joy out of childhood for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never got to see that sort of sparkle, or that sort of magic of, like, a Christmas morning, or a Halloween, or just regular day-to-day happiness,” Molly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Felicia A. Elizondo to the LGBT Community of the World:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear LGBT Community of the World,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My California dream came true when I found out that I wasn’t the only queer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1920x2588.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-960x1294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-240x324.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-375x506.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-520x701.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo at 6 years old in San Angelo, Texas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I came to the Tenderloin in San Francisco when I was in high school in 1962-1963. I found a world that I never knew existed growing up in San Angelo, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The Tenderloin was the Gay Mecca in the 1960s. People came here to start a new life, a new identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We were \u003cem>jotos\u003c/em>, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To survive we had to turn to prostitution, sell drugs, clip tricks (robbing them) when we were desperate — to buy food and pay rent. If we didn’t have money, then we were on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Compton’s Cafeteria was the center of the universe for us. It was the place to unite with each other. To make sure some of us had made it through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1020x1140.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1074x1200.jpg 1074w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1920x2145.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1180x1319.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-960x1073.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-240x268.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-375x419.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo on the Coronado Naval Base, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">What changed my life was when I went to see the movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Christine Jorgensen Story” \u003c/a>about\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine Jorgensen. \u003c/a>She had been in the Army, and had the first sex change in 1951.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I finally realized that this is who I am. I didn’t know how I was going to get there, but where there is a will, there is a way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I went from a little boy to transforming myself to the woman I am today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia’s portrait was used on promotional materials for the 2013 Trans March in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of TransMarch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I am now one of the organizers of a group of community members that started to make sure our gay history would never be forgotten. We got a plaque put up on Taylor Street to commemorate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835520/a-new-generation-gathers-strength-from-the-courageous-queens-of-the-comptons-cafeteria-riot%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\u003c/a>, which happened three years before Stonewall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1020x898.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1200x1056.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1180x1038.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-960x845.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-240x211.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-375x330.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-520x458.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This plaque commemorates the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, in which transgender women and gay men fought against police brutality. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons: Gaylesf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Please don’t forget all who came before you. You have to know where you have been to know where you are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Felicia A. Elizondo, aka Felicia Flames\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Trailblazer, Historian, Activist, Tenderloin Queen, Pioneer, Legend, Icon, Diva, 31 years survivor of AIDS, Vietnam War Veteran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Felicia A. Elizondo to the LGBT Community of the World:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear LGBT Community of the World,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My California dream came true when I found out that I wasn’t the only queer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1920x2588.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-960x1294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-240x324.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-375x506.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-520x701.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo at 6 years old in San Angelo, Texas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I came to the Tenderloin in San Francisco when I was in high school in 1962-1963. I found a world that I never knew existed growing up in San Angelo, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The Tenderloin was the Gay Mecca in the 1960s. People came here to start a new life, a new identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We were \u003cem>jotos\u003c/em>, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To survive we had to turn to prostitution, sell drugs, clip tricks (robbing them) when we were desperate — to buy food and pay rent. If we didn’t have money, then we were on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Compton’s Cafeteria was the center of the universe for us. It was the place to unite with each other. To make sure some of us had made it through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1020x1140.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1074x1200.jpg 1074w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1920x2145.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1180x1319.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-960x1073.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-240x268.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-375x419.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo on the Coronado Naval Base, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">What changed my life was when I went to see the movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Christine Jorgensen Story” \u003c/a>about\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine Jorgensen. \u003c/a>She had been in the Army, and had the first sex change in 1951.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I finally realized that this is who I am. I didn’t know how I was going to get there, but where there is a will, there is a way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I went from a little boy to transforming myself to the woman I am today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia’s portrait was used on promotional materials for the 2013 Trans March in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of TransMarch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I am now one of the organizers of a group of community members that started to make sure our gay history would never be forgotten. We got a plaque put up on Taylor Street to commemorate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835520/a-new-generation-gathers-strength-from-the-courageous-queens-of-the-comptons-cafeteria-riot%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\u003c/a>, which happened three years before Stonewall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1020x898.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1200x1056.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1180x1038.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-960x845.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-240x211.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-375x330.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-520x458.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This plaque commemorates the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, in which transgender women and gay men fought against police brutality. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons: Gaylesf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Please don’t forget all who came before you. You have to know where you have been to know where you are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Felicia A. Elizondo, aka Felicia Flames\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Trailblazer, Historian, Activist, Tenderloin Queen, Pioneer, Legend, Icon, Diva, 31 years survivor of AIDS, Vietnam War Veteran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED's reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q'ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the North Korea summit, all of this stuff definitely happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440851/can-you-really-know-that-a-3-year-old-is-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are 3-year-olds too young to socially transition? Transgender researchers disagree\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11670998 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Gracie (7) poses for a picture in her room surrounded by princess and Minnie Mouse imagery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie (7) poses for a picture in her room surrounded by princess and Minnie Mouse imagery. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gracie is like a lot of seven-year-old girls: She likes pink, dresses and Frozen. She's also transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started socially transitioning at age four -- her family started calling her Gracie, changed her pronouns, let her wear girl clothes outside of the house and changed the gender on her birth certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Jon Brooks spent some time with Gracie and her mom as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440851/can-you-really-know-that-a-3-year-old-is-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deeper dive\u003c/a> into a controversial issue in the transgender and medical communities: When should kids be allowed to start socially transitioning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group follows what they call the \"gender affirmative\" model. Basically, if a kid is insistent that they're not the gender everyone says they are, adults should listen to them and support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side are researchers who cite disputed research that shows the majority of young kids who say they're transgender don't stick with that identity through adolescence. They advocate supporting a kid's ability to express themselves how they wish, while avoiding more lasting changes like pronoun or name changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of this debate are kids like Gracie. Her mom says that since she's started transitioning, she has become much happier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now she gets to really live,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670165/art-of-peace-confiscated-guns-transformed-in-oakland-art-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When guns become art in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/IMG_6523-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Artists Natasha McCray-Zolp and Shameel Ali stand with '300 Shots Fired,' as part of the 'Art of Peace' exhibit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists Natasha McCray-Zolp and Shameel Ali stand with '300 Shots Fired,' as part of the 'Art of Peace' exhibit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art is regularly used as way to make a statement on social issues like gun violence, but I've never seen an exhibit quite like \"Art of Peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It features art made out of hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670165/art-of-peace-confiscated-guns-transformed-in-oakland-art-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confiscated and dismantled guns\u003c/a> provided by the Alameda County District Attorney's office to local artists like Natasha McCray-Zolp who, along with her husband, created a bicycle with handgun pedals and a shell-casing seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It dawned on me that I was looking down two double barrel shotguns,\" McCray-Zolp said about the process of making her piece. \"And I thought, you know, these quite possibly could have been pointed at somebody in this way before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669643/sheep-shearing-101-why-aspiring-shavers-flock-to-this-california-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No baaaaaaaad haircuts here\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These sheep are next in line for a buzz from first-time shearers at the UC Cooperative Extension Sheep Shearing School in Hopland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31075_IMG_0793-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These sheep are next in line for a buzz from first-time shearers at the UC Cooperative Extension Sheep Shearing School in Hopland. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It turns out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669643/sheep-shearing-101-why-aspiring-shavers-flock-to-this-california-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving a sheep a haircut\u003c/a> is a lot like dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're dancing instructors,” says John Harper, head of the \u003ca href=\"http://cemendocino.ucanr.edu/Sheep_Shearing_School_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Cooperative Extension Sheep Shearing School\u003c/a> in the Mendocino County town of Hopland. “It’s like 'Dancing With The Stars' on steroids, but with sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently there's a worldwide shortage of sheep shearers and hundreds of thousands of sheep just in California that need their wool shaved off. Enter Harper's sheep shearing school, which has been training new baaaaaarbers for about 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670565/deported-nurse-is-now-raising-her-oakland-kids-from-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How do you keep parenting your kids after you've been deported?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Mendoza-Sanchez sits on a couch in her Oakland home on Aug. 16, 2017, hours before she, her husband and son leave Oakland for Mexico City. Her daughter, Melin Sanchez, 21, cries as she watches her mother with concern.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/WPR_RS26261__MG_3197-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Mendoza-Sanchez sits on a couch in her Oakland home on Aug. 16, 2017, hours before she, her husband and son leave Oakland for Mexico City. Her daughter, Melin Sanchez, 21, cries as she watches her mother with concern. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Being a working parent of four kids in the Bay Area is hard enough. Now imagine that your kids live in Oakland, while you and your spouse live in Mexico, legally barred from reconnecting with them in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the life Maria Mendoza and her husband Eusebio have been living for the last nine months since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670565/deported-nurse-is-now-raising-her-oakland-kids-from-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they were deported\u003c/a> as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their two oldest daughters are putting their educational ambitions aside to take care of their younger siblings, while Maria and Eusebio try to send what little money they can and do their parenting over daily video chats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832672/remembering-a-warriors-superhero-on-and-off-the-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remembering a Warriors superhero\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/warriors/status/997193788882866178\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've always had a soft spot for professional sports mascots and the people who make them come alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a strong mascot culture in Minnesota where I grew up including the home run hitting TC Bear, the do-it-all Goldy the Gopher and the high-flying, slam-dunking Crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even though I had never seen Sadiki Fuller perform as the Warriors' mascot Thunder in the late 90s and early 2000s, I felt an immediate respect and admiration for the man while reading Pendarvis Harshaw's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832672/remembering-a-warriors-superhero-on-and-off-the-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heartfelt tribute.\u003c/a> Like many mascots, his presence wasn't just felt on the court or field hyping up the fans, but in the community where he brought joy and mentorship to so many.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED's reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q'ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the North Korea summit, all of this stuff definitely happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440851/can-you-really-know-that-a-3-year-old-is-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are 3-year-olds too young to socially transition? Transgender researchers disagree\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11670998 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Gracie (7) poses for a picture in her room surrounded by princess and Minnie Mouse imagery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31096_TRANS_014-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie (7) poses for a picture in her room surrounded by princess and Minnie Mouse imagery. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gracie is like a lot of seven-year-old girls: She likes pink, dresses and Frozen. She's also transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started socially transitioning at age four -- her family started calling her Gracie, changed her pronouns, let her wear girl clothes outside of the house and changed the gender on her birth certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Jon Brooks spent some time with Gracie and her mom as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440851/can-you-really-know-that-a-3-year-old-is-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deeper dive\u003c/a> into a controversial issue in the transgender and medical communities: When should kids be allowed to start socially transitioning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The NSF said the choice was unanimous, and noted that pediatricians are already using her findings to raise awareness about gender diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the award citation honors Olson for a broad range of her research on children's perceptions, she has become best known as creator and leader of the TransYouth Project, which is widely considered the most ambitious long-term study of transgender children being conducted in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Launched in 2013, the project has recruited more than 300 children ages 3-12 from 45 states, with the goal of tracking their development over 20 years. 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