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Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming ... victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender people already serve in the military. 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There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military —regardless of their gender identity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain added that Pentagon is conducting a study on \"the medical obligations it would incur, the impact on military readiness and related questions\" associated with the enlistment of transgender people not yet in the military. \"I do not believe that any new policy decision is appropriate until that study is complete and thoroughly reviewed by the Secretary of Defense, our military leadership, and the Congress,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's announcement comes exactly 69 years after President Harry Truman \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanlibrary.org/anniversaries/desegblurb.htm\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> desegregating the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's Merrit Kennedy \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/30/484192442/pentagon-says-transgender-troops-can-now-serve-openly\">reported\u003c/a> last year when the ban was lifted, then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the key reason for the change was \"that the Defense Department and the military need to avail ourselves of all talent possible in order to remain what we are now — the finest fighting force the world has ever known.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was an acknowledgement of the transgender people already in the military. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of “\u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/news/students/usc-annenberg-student-journalists-kqeds-california-report-publish-joint-investigation\">At Risk in the Trump Era\u003c/a>,” a four-month investigation by USC Annenberg advanced radio students, exploring how vulnerable communities across Southern California react to the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The series profiles individuals burdened by new worries — looking for work, signing up for school, or even deciding whether to publicly express their sexual orientation or religious affiliation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Renee Gross brings us the story of Olive, a transgender 20-something in Los Angeles who says her home life with her parents has gotten more hostile since Trump took office. Olive and her parents have asked only to use their first names. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is parked in front of a grocery store miles away from her home. She pushes back her seat, undoes her pants, and pulls them down over her hairy legs. Then she slips on a skirt, top and jean jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaah, freedom!” she exhales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive calls herself “vampire trans” because she dresses as male during the day, but at night puts on makeup and wears women’s clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-960x709.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive performing stand-up at the Comedy Store. She jokes about her family and her love life, among other things. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She chose the name Olive partly because she used to imagine herself go-go dancing in olive-colored clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home, she goes by her old name: Richard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives with her parents, immigrants in their mid-60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transgender. That is ridiculous for me,” says her mother, Tatiana, who’s from Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive and her mom often fight about Olive’s identity. But there are days they’ll spend time together, even making Olive’s favorite comfort food for breakfast, a Romanian dish of sweet meatballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love him, you know,” Tatiana says while they mix the meat. “But we don’t like what he’s doing, what direction he chooses in life. So we are very worried about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatiana turns to Olive. “What’s your response on this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like you just don’t, you don’t see what my life is like,” says Olive. “I don’t think you will ever really see much of it because we don’t agree on how I should live my own life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something [like] the end of the world, you know, [that] even the president is against and everybody’s against,” says Tatiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-520x404.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive hugs her mother. \u003ccite>(Olive )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive’s parents are big Trump supporters. Olive vehemently opposes the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Olive says that conversation left her feeling depressed. She and her parents are always getting into dramatic fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is trying to save up money to leave her parents’ house. She has a degree in film and she eventually wants to be a cinematographer. For now, she works as a production assistant on a TV show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-800x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1920x1648.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1180x1013.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-960x824.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-240x206.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-375x322.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-520x446.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on nail polish in the car. She says she doesn’t feel like she she’s good at applying it yet, and often feels she ‘overpaints’ her nails. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive says during one recent fight, Tatiana told her she wanted to commit suicide. She just couldn’t deal with her child’s gender identity anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking about her killing herself,” Olive tells me. “And then I was thinking about just me killing myself. Like, who’s going first?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says around the time Trump got elected, she seriously considered killing herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The energy in the house was just kind of upsetting.” Olive recalls. “Right as he got elected, both my parents were screaming and shouting, “Woo-hoo! Go Trump!’ They were just pointing at me like, ‘Haha we won.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the weeks went by after the election, Olive says she just felt alienated. “And then I was in a lot of pain. I decided I didn’t want to deal with it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew of a bridge that she used to go to with her dad. It’s on the L.A. River near a bike path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just left my house one night when it was too much,” she says. “I drove there. I got there. And then my friend called me. And I was like OK, I’ll do this later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive practices her jokes at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months after Olive planned to kill herself, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/22/trump-administration-lifts-transgender-bathroom-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolled back protections\u003c/a> for transgender students in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive talks about it with her dad, Harry, a hefty man with black hair and a receding hairline. At one point in the conversation, Olive brings up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/16/transgender-individuals-face-high-rates--suicide-attempts/31626633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high suicide rate\u003c/a> for transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t like hearing that, right?” she asks her dad. “That trans kids kill themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I always believed that trans is a mental problem,” says Harry. “I don’t get it. For me it is disgusting. Disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says she’s heard comments like this from her parents many times. She just tries to let the words run right through her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not trying to hurt me,” she says. “I don’t need to feel hurt by them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this fight with her father is a little easier than the ones before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting less these days. It’s not as bad now. It’s, like, calmer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s calmer, in part, because the fighting takes so much of out of them. They feel spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1920x1474.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1180x906.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-960x737.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-375x288.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-520x399.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on lipstick in her car. She says she loves the name of it: Rage. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even though both parents thoroughly reject Olive’s gender identity, she wants to take care of them. She can’t remember a time when they weren’t struggling with depression. Olive is an only child, and even as a teenager she worried about her parents’ health and their ability to navigate old age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was responsible for them, like they’re my kids,” she says. “Sometimes it still feels like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, taking care of them still means hiding her identity. At least while she still lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot where she changes into her skirt and blouse, Olive puts on her makeup. She dodges her stubble as she outlines her lips in red. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home, she goes by her old name: Richard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives with her parents, immigrants in their mid-60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transgender. That is ridiculous for me,” says her mother, Tatiana, who’s from Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive and her mom often fight about Olive’s identity. But there are days they’ll spend time together, even making Olive’s favorite comfort food for breakfast, a Romanian dish of sweet meatballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love him, you know,” Tatiana says while they mix the meat. “But we don’t like what he’s doing, what direction he chooses in life. So we are very worried about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatiana turns to Olive. “What’s your response on this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like you just don’t, you don’t see what my life is like,” says Olive. “I don’t think you will ever really see much of it because we don’t agree on how I should live my own life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something [like] the end of the world, you know, [that] even the president is against and everybody’s against,” says Tatiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-520x404.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive hugs her mother. \u003ccite>(Olive )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive’s parents are big Trump supporters. Olive vehemently opposes the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Olive says that conversation left her feeling depressed. She and her parents are always getting into dramatic fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is trying to save up money to leave her parents’ house. She has a degree in film and she eventually wants to be a cinematographer. 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She says she doesn’t feel like she she’s good at applying it yet, and often feels she ‘overpaints’ her nails. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive says during one recent fight, Tatiana told her she wanted to commit suicide. She just couldn’t deal with her child’s gender identity anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking about her killing herself,” Olive tells me. “And then I was thinking about just me killing myself. Like, who’s going first?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says around the time Trump got elected, she seriously considered killing herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The energy in the house was just kind of upsetting.” Olive recalls. “Right as he got elected, both my parents were screaming and shouting, “Woo-hoo! Go Trump!’ They were just pointing at me like, ‘Haha we won.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the weeks went by after the election, Olive says she just felt alienated. “And then I was in a lot of pain. I decided I didn’t want to deal with it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew of a bridge that she used to go to with her dad. It’s on the L.A. River near a bike path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just left my house one night when it was too much,” she says. “I drove there. I got there. And then my friend called me. And I was like OK, I’ll do this later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive practices her jokes at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months after Olive planned to kill herself, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/22/trump-administration-lifts-transgender-bathroom-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolled back protections\u003c/a> for transgender students in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive talks about it with her dad, Harry, a hefty man with black hair and a receding hairline. At one point in the conversation, Olive brings up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/16/transgender-individuals-face-high-rates--suicide-attempts/31626633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high suicide rate\u003c/a> for transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t like hearing that, right?” she asks her dad. “That trans kids kill themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I always believed that trans is a mental problem,” says Harry. “I don’t get it. For me it is disgusting. Disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says she’s heard comments like this from her parents many times. She just tries to let the words run right through her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not trying to hurt me,” she says. “I don’t need to feel hurt by them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this fight with her father is a little easier than the ones before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting less these days. It’s not as bad now. It’s, like, calmer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s calmer, in part, because the fighting takes so much of out of them. They feel spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1920x1474.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1180x906.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-960x737.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-375x288.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-520x399.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on lipstick in her car. She says she loves the name of it: Rage. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even though both parents thoroughly reject Olive’s gender identity, she wants to take care of them. She can’t remember a time when they weren’t struggling with depression. Olive is an only child, and even as a teenager she worried about her parents’ health and their ability to navigate old age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was responsible for them, like they’re my kids,” she says. “Sometimes it still feels like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, taking care of them still means hiding her identity. At least while she still lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot where she changes into her skirt and blouse, Olive puts on her makeup. She dodges her stubble as she outlines her lips in red. 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But transgender rights advocates say it was useful and necessary to protect students from discrimination. Opponents argued it was federal overreach and violated the safety and privacy of other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House spokesman Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump “has made it clear throughout the campaign that he is a firm believer in states’ rights and that certain issues like this are not best dealt with at the federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative activists hailed the change, saying the Obama directives were illegal and violated the rights of fixed-gender students, especially girls who did not feel safe changing clothes or using restrooms next to anatomical males.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our daughters should never be forced to share private, intimate spaces with male classmates, even if those young men are struggling with these issues,” said Vicki Wilson, a member of Students and Parents for Privacy. “It violates their right to privacy and harms their dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the reversal is a setback for transgender rights groups, which had been urging Trump to keep the guidelines in place. Advocates say federal law will still prohibit discrimination against students based on their gender or sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they say lifting the Obama directive puts children in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reversing this guidance tells trans kids that it’s OK with the Trump administration and the Department of Education for them to be abused and harassed at school for being trans,” said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists protested the move Wednesday outside the White House. “Respect existence or expect resistance,” read one placard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spicer denied media reports that DeVos, who has been criticized for her stance on LGBT issues, had opposed the change but was overruled by Sessions. Spicer said any disagreement was merely over wording and timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no daylight between anybody,” Spicer said, adding that DeVos was “100 percent” on board with the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration’s guidance was based on its determination that Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education, also applies to gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not legally binding, the guidance sent a warning that schools could lose funding if they did not comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans pushed back, arguing that the federal effort was an example of Obama administration meddling in state and local matters. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick equated it to blackmail and said his state was ready to forfeit federal education money rather than comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts said the change in position could impact pending court cases involving the federal sex discrimination law, including a case to be heard by the Supreme Court in March involving Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen who was denied bathroom access in Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices could decide not to hear the case and direct lower courts to decide that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phone interview with the AP, Grimm said of the Trump action: “It’s not positive. It has the possibility of hurting transgender students and transgender people. We’re going to keep fighting like we have been and keep fighting for the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A patchwork of state laws could continue to emerge as a result of the change. Fifteen states have explicit protections for transgender students in their state laws, and many individual school districts in other states have adopted policies that cover such students on the basis of their gender identity, said Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign. Just one state, North Carolina, has enacted a law restricting access to bathrooms in government-owned buildings to the sex that appears on a person’s birth certificate. Lawmakers in more than 10 states are considering similar legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, and Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Leading up the inauguration, The California Report magazine is airing letters from California teenagers to the incoming president. They’re some of the more than 12,000 letters collected as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/18/letters-to-our-next-president-from-americas-youth/\">part of a collaboration \u003c/a>between KQED and the National Writing Project. You can search all the letters by topic \u003ca href=\"https://letters2president.org/letters\">here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This one comes from Skyelar, a 10th-grader at Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts in Yuba County.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302599596″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear Future President,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that transgender people don’t have enough policies that help protect their rights. There are no policies that stop a school from suspending or even expelling a child because of their gender expressions. They can also refuse to let them use their preferred bathroom (or) call them by their preferred name. These issues can cause for social harm for the person as well as internal conflict and it may cause emotional struggles such as depression, anxiety or make gender or body dysphoria worse for some who already suffer from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have made a lot of progression towards sexuality and helping to diminish discrimination as much as possible against the gay/lesbian/bisexual community by legalizing marriage and many other steps. But still nothing protects transgender people from the hate of the people in society. Schools, businesses, the regular citizen are all ways transgender people get hate towards them and there is nothing to stop this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not having anything to protect transgender people affects more than a few people. It affects about 1.4 million adults in the us. Young children are being kicked out of schools, their homes and adults are being refused jobs or service in public areas. As a transgender youth I do find my life very hindered by the discrimination I get from my family, school faculty and even other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My home life is very affected by the views my family has and how uncomfortable I make them with the way I am. I get in trouble and stopped when I try to speak to them about it. I also have issues at school, for an entire year one of my teachers refused to call me my preferred name and when he finally told me he couldn’t until it was legally changed or put on roster I asked the staff to change it, they agreed as long as I had my mother’s consent. They changed it and I got my name. A few days after that my teacher saw me go into the boys bathroom and I was called into the principles. We talked and he asked how my mother felt about me, my name, and my pronouns. After going over it he said the teachers could call me my preferred name but not a male. This upset me a lot but I didn’t say anything because I didn’t know what I could do to help the situation, I wasn’t allowed to be referred to as a male until my mother accepted me regardless of my wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was lucky enough to get my name but what would happen if my mother didn’t let me have that either. I would be stuck being seen as a female with my birth name for who knows how long. When this first happened I was greatly affected and fell into a deep depression. One of the things I absolutely want most is to be seen as a male and be comfortable with myself as I already have bad body and gender dysphoria. This issue got me to look into if there were any policies that could protect or help me in my school so I would freely be myself as just another one of the males in the school. I was disappointed to find nothing for me. I am completely positive there are many other teenagers facing problems just as bad and worse than I am and I believe that there should be way more policies helping protect me and so many other transgender people like me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constantly thinking about these issues I have come up with some solutions or steps we could take to a society where transgenders are just looked as normal people. One of these solutions has to do with schools (as most are) I believe we shouldn’t regulate how much acceptance and the treatment that the kids based on what their parents believe. School should be place that the students can freely express who they are and be treated with respect to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately that isn’t the case if schools aren’t thinking about the student and only thinking of what their parents would be okay with. Another idea I have that isn’t for schools is a simple solution that should have been applied from the start. The idea is to make sure that people can not refuse to serve someone based solely on the fact that they are transgender as that wouldn’t be a decent option and argumentatively can be seen in a way such as refusing service to someone just because of their color of their skin. As a part of this it would be important to make sure that transgenders would have all the basic rights that a normal cis-gendered person would. These are only two ideas of so many simple and easy ways to help the transgendered people on their path to equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conclusion we should have more policies protecting transgender people and there are many ways to make that possible from schools, to workplaces to other businesses the lives of so many trans people can be affected in a very positive way without that much change for the rest of society and simple things that could really make a difference in the overall quality of our lives, because we all want to live in a world where everyone is happy and living a life that will be a reflection of the societies strengths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all want that perfect society with no judgment somewhere deep down, and we headed on the road towards that. First with equal rights towards women and people of different skin colors, and more recently the lgb part of the lgbt community. Our next step is to give trangenders the rights they deserve and so desperately want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skyelar\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California is now home to the nation's first large-scale program to help transgender people find jobs. The goal of the new California Transgender Workplace Project is to eat away at the unemployment rate for trans people, which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.lgbtmap.org/unfair-price-transgender\">twice the rate\u003c/a> of other Americans. The numbers are even worse for trans people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project will place trans job seekers into entry-level positions at restaurants throughout the state, in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"http://events.calrest.org/events/WFHE-The-New-Normal!-Trans-Inclusivity-in-the-Workplace-3174/details\">California Restaurant Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/494102719/498504431/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an incentive to owners and managers, the first 60 hours of a new hire's wages will be paid for through a $150,000 grant from the California Workforce Development Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is all because of \u003ca href=\"http://michaelaspeaks.com/\">Michaela Mendelsohn\u003c/a>, a trans woman who has employed trans people at her restaurants for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The customer’s always right ... unless they attack you personally.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The El Pollo Loco at South Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard was all hands on deck one recent afternoon. Even though the lunch rush ended hours ago, workers were frantically running around filling orders, chopping onions and searing hundreds of pieces of chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of those workers rushing behind the counter were trans, including Delaney Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like it's a supportive atmosphere,\" she says. Small gestures like being called what she wishes, instead of what may currently be on official documents, meant the world to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm able to have my name tag as I wish, and I just feel more comfortable,\" says Martinez. \"With being comfortable, I can give better service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This restaurant is the first El Pollo Loco owned by Michaela Mendelsohn. She opened it in 1988, and it's one of six locations she currently owns in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn says she fosters an atmosphere in which she backs her trans employees despite what customers might say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you always hear the thing, 'The customer’s always right,' \" she says. \"In my restaurants, the customer’s always right unless they attack you personally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn transitioned in 2005, taking a year away from work and without saying a word to her employees or other franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They thought I was dying of cancer because they just assumed, ‘Well, he just disappeared. He’s sick,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she reintroduced herself to her staff and colleagues, she braced for the worst. All she got was love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The franchisees basically lined up for hours to give me a hug and wish me well,\" Mendelsohn remembers of the first conference as Michaela with other El Pollo Loco franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a holiday party for her own staff, she didn't hear a nasty remark, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m the boss, so no one’s saying it to my face,\" she smirks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through. ... This is a civil rights issue.'\u003ccite>Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She was the only trans person in her restaurants for years, however, until 2012 when she hired her first trans employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That person told Mendelsohn of the troubles she had securing entry-level jobs at many places. She was mysteriously told during interviews that there were no open positions, and recalled how hiring managers would laugh or scoff when she entered the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn was profoundly affected, and began collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the TransLatin@ Coalition to find other out-of-work trans people and to offer them jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people,\" she says, estimating about 8 to 10 percent of her 150 employees are trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Caitlyn Jenner and North Carolina's Bathroom Bill Helped the Cause\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn batted around the idea for years of how to expand the success of her work into something bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got that chance this year when the public awareness of trans issues grew to an all-time high, both with the transition of Caitlyn Jenner and the acrimonious fight over \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/09/477316001/deadline-approaches-for-north-carolinas-response-on-lgbt-law\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina's law\u003c/a> that restricted which bathrooms trans people could use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So several months ago, Mendelsohn met up with her colleagues at the California Restaurant Association, one of the biggest state industry groups for restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hotel bar, she chatted up her longtime friend and head of the association, Jot Condie, about the difficulties that trans people face in the work world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invited him to meet with trans people at the Los Angeles LGBT Center who were desperate for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through,\" says Condie. \"This is a civil rights issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Mendelsohn floated her ambitious idea to Condie: Help her back a jobs program that would secure jobs for trans people at restaurants. The benefit to owners and managers would be a new worker, which are in desperate need right now because of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.franchisetimes.com/February-2015/Where-have-all-the-workers-gone-Restaurants-see-shortage/\">nationwide labor shortage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's tougher than in the past 12 years to find employees,\" says Mendelsohn. \"We can’t afford, as restaurateurs, to exclude qualified employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also collaborated with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the TransLatin@ Coalition and more organizations to be a part of this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she just needed to sell other restaurants on the idea, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Restaurants' First Taste of the New Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo is one of the biggest trade shows in the country for restaurants, with more than 10,000 attendees at this year's event in late August at the L.A. Convention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees sample the offerings at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on August 30, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-960x659.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees sample the offerings at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on Aug. 30, 2016. \u003ccite>(Leo Duran/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association sponsors the expo, and it used the gathering as an opportunity to host the first of six seminars for its members interested in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners and managers would need to attend at least one of the sessions being held throughout the state in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They'll learn how to apply, the issues that trans people face in the workplace and how to support their trans staff – call it \"Trans 101.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trans people are vulnerable when we come into the workplace,\" Drian Juarez, from the Los Angeles LGBT Center, told the room. \"If somebody makes fun of us, we may not have the wherewithal to stand up for ourselves because we don't want to jeopardize our jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone believes it's the right thing to do right now, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expo attendee Grant Theim said he believes everyone should have a right to a job no matter who they are, but that other Americans might not be ready for this idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I still think that there’s a majority of people out there that might have a problem with being served by somebody that’s transgender,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans businesswoman, speaks before a seminar at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on August 30, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans businesswoman, speaks before a seminar at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on August 30, 2016. \u003ccite>(Leo Duran/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Mendelsohn told the seminar that her restaurants are a good example of how that's not necessarily true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The customer compliments on our transgender employees started coming in. Lots of compliments,\" she says, \"and our stores have consistently climbed in sales.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drian Juarez also says that a growing number of industries are welcoming trans people into their workforce, and are writing LGBT-friendly guidelines into their HR handbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will always have people who don't like trans people for whatever reason,\" she says, \"but it's not about changing that person. It's about getting them to a place where they understand that when you're at home you can believe whatever you want. But when you're in the workplace, you will follow the law and treat everyone with respect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn and the association say they hope their effort will convince other industries around the country to follow their lead, and that it will be a great encouragement for trans people to head back into the job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I promise a trans person a level playing field,\" says Mendelsohn. \"I don't promise them a bed of roses. They're going to need to work hard like everyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The customer’s always right ... unless they attack you personally.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The El Pollo Loco at South Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard was all hands on deck one recent afternoon. Even though the lunch rush ended hours ago, workers were frantically running around filling orders, chopping onions and searing hundreds of pieces of chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of those workers rushing behind the counter were trans, including Delaney Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like it's a supportive atmosphere,\" she says. Small gestures like being called what she wishes, instead of what may currently be on official documents, meant the world to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm able to have my name tag as I wish, and I just feel more comfortable,\" says Martinez. \"With being comfortable, I can give better service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This restaurant is the first El Pollo Loco owned by Michaela Mendelsohn. She opened it in 1988, and it's one of six locations she currently owns in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn says she fosters an atmosphere in which she backs her trans employees despite what customers might say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you always hear the thing, 'The customer’s always right,' \" she says. \"In my restaurants, the customer’s always right unless they attack you personally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn transitioned in 2005, taking a year away from work and without saying a word to her employees or other franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They thought I was dying of cancer because they just assumed, ‘Well, he just disappeared. He’s sick,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she reintroduced herself to her staff and colleagues, she braced for the worst. All she got was love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The franchisees basically lined up for hours to give me a hug and wish me well,\" Mendelsohn remembers of the first conference as Michaela with other El Pollo Loco franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a holiday party for her own staff, she didn't hear a nasty remark, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m the boss, so no one’s saying it to my face,\" she smirks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through. ... This is a civil rights issue.'\u003ccite>Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She was the only trans person in her restaurants for years, however, until 2012 when she hired her first trans employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That person told Mendelsohn of the troubles she had securing entry-level jobs at many places. She was mysteriously told during interviews that there were no open positions, and recalled how hiring managers would laugh or scoff when she entered the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn was profoundly affected, and began collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the TransLatin@ Coalition to find other out-of-work trans people and to offer them jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people,\" she says, estimating about 8 to 10 percent of her 150 employees are trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Caitlyn Jenner and North Carolina's Bathroom Bill Helped the Cause\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn batted around the idea for years of how to expand the success of her work into something bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got that chance this year when the public awareness of trans issues grew to an all-time high, both with the transition of Caitlyn Jenner and the acrimonious fight over \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/09/477316001/deadline-approaches-for-north-carolinas-response-on-lgbt-law\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina's law\u003c/a> that restricted which bathrooms trans people could use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So several months ago, Mendelsohn met up with her colleagues at the California Restaurant Association, one of the biggest state industry groups for restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hotel bar, she chatted up her longtime friend and head of the association, Jot Condie, about the difficulties that trans people face in the work world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invited him to meet with trans people at the Los Angeles LGBT Center who were desperate for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through,\" says Condie. \"This is a civil rights issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Mendelsohn floated her ambitious idea to Condie: Help her back a jobs program that would secure jobs for trans people at restaurants. The benefit to owners and managers would be a new worker, which are in desperate need right now because of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.franchisetimes.com/February-2015/Where-have-all-the-workers-gone-Restaurants-see-shortage/\">nationwide labor shortage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's tougher than in the past 12 years to find employees,\" says Mendelsohn. \"We can’t afford, as restaurateurs, to exclude qualified employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also collaborated with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the TransLatin@ Coalition and more organizations to be a part of this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she just needed to sell other restaurants on the idea, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Restaurants' First Taste of the New Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo is one of the biggest trade shows in the country for restaurants, with more than 10,000 attendees at this year's event in late August at the L.A. 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Convention Center on Aug. 30, 2016. \u003ccite>(Leo Duran/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association sponsors the expo, and it used the gathering as an opportunity to host the first of six seminars for its members interested in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners and managers would need to attend at least one of the sessions being held throughout the state in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They'll learn how to apply, the issues that trans people face in the workplace and how to support their trans staff – call it \"Trans 101.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trans people are vulnerable when we come into the workplace,\" Drian Juarez, from the Los Angeles LGBT Center, told the room. \"If somebody makes fun of us, we may not have the wherewithal to stand up for ourselves because we don't want to jeopardize our jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone believes it's the right thing to do right now, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expo attendee Grant Theim said he believes everyone should have a right to a job no matter who they are, but that other Americans might not be ready for this idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I still think that there’s a majority of people out there that might have a problem with being served by somebody that’s transgender,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans businesswoman, speaks before a seminar at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>Puberty is no picnic, even in the best of circumstances. Once the sex hormones estrogen or testosterone kick in, there’s no turning back: Here come breasts and periods, Adam’s apples and acne. It’s a tough passage for many kids, but for some — transgender youth whose bodies don’t match their gender identity — puberty can be unbearable.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Full-blown puberty is irreversible, but for transgender children, it’s no longer inevitable.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For one Oakland family, their daughter’s path was clear from the time she was three. Her birth certificate said “male,” but the child would always say she wanted to be a girl, and that soon became, “I AM a girl,” said the mother, who asked that her family’s name not be used to protect her daughter’s privacy. She recalled a day when the girl wept in frustration trying to fashion a skirt out of some t-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally I just said, ‘Honey, do you want a dress?’’ and they went to a store and bought one. “I literally thought she was going to faint or hyperventilate,” said the mother. “She couldn’t sit still, she was so excited and so happy. It was a moment of pure joy for her, and also a turning point,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was happy growing up and attended a progressive school in the San Francisco Bay Area as a girl. But when she was approaching puberty, she became very nervous, “worried about getting facial hair or watching her shoulders get broader. It was all very painful for her,” her mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The child was experiencing what’s known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.dsm5.org/documents/gender%20dysphoria%20fact%20sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">gender dysphoria\u003c/a>, a DSM-5 diagnosis of significant ongoing distress, with the feeling of being assigned the wrong gender at birth. Researchers at Harvard \u003ca href=\"http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2814%2900693-4/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">recently found\u003c/a> that transgender youth are at a much higher risk for mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and self-harm. They are more than twice as likely as non-trans youth to be diagnosed with depression (50.6 percent vs. 20.6 percent) or suffer from anxiety (26.7 percent vs. 10 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids are saying to the world, ‘I was born in the wrong body, and there’s something just not right about living this way,’” said Scott Leibowitz, head child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blockers ‘Safe and Effective’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full-blown puberty is irreversible, but for transgender children, it’s no longer inevitable. By taking a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist, secretion of the sex hormones can be stopped and the onset of puberty suppressed, so that the body does not develop secondary sex characteristics. This has been done safely for decades to suppress sex hormones in children who develop too early, a condition known as precocious puberty. Suppressors have also been used to treat endometriosis, uterine fibroids and prostate cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only in 2008 that \u003ca href=\"https://endocrine.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the Endocrine Society\u003c/a> approved puberty suppressors as a treatment for transgender adolescents as young as 12 years old. The Society, with members in more than 100 countries, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.endocrine.org/news-room/press-release-archives/2013/medical-intervention-in-transgender-adolescents-appears-to-be-safe-and-effective\" target=\"_blank\">since declared\u003c/a> that the intervention appears to be safe and effective. In 2011 the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wpath.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=1347&pk_association_webpage=4233\" target=\"_blank\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health\u003c/a> (WPATH), also issued Standards of Care for the treatment of patients with gender dysphoria, which include puberty suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'As soon as he got breast buds, it was like the panic button was hit. He was quickly and very intensely uncomfortable and afraid.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are few reported side effects to this off-label use of sex hormone suppressors. Despite early concerns that blocking sex hormones might harm bone development, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25427144\" target=\"_blank\">recent study\u003c/a> from the Netherlands found no evidence of long-term effects on bone mineral density. If the suppressors are halted, puberty resumes as if there had been no treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data on the use of puberty blockers is scarce, but in the past decade or so, it’s believed thousands of transgender youth and their families have chosen to suppress puberty to give adolescents a time-out while they figure out the next step in their development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A St. Louis, Mo., child was classified as female at birth, one of a set of twin girls. But the parents had been discussing puberty blockers with him since he was seven years old, after he had begun dressing as a boy and showing more masculine traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember watching a documentary where he learned what blockers were and we talked about it and he was sure that’s what he wanted when the time came,” said his mother, who also asked that the family’s names not be used to protect her child’s privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as he got breast buds, it was like the panic button was hit,” the mother said. “He was quickly and very intensely uncomfortable and afraid. He would cry, knowing that this was the beginning of something that he didn’t want, that he knew wasn’t right for him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, after the boy turned 11, a pediatric endocrinologist prescribed the sex hormone suppressor Eligard, an injection that he receives every four months. According to his mother, because they intervened early, the unwanted breast buds receded quickly, along with her son’s depression and anxiety. “I don’t know what we would have done if we were not able to stop puberty so he doesn’t have to feel in constant conflict with his own body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, according to the mother, the biggest problem their family has faced has been trying to get insurance coverage for her son’s treatment. She said they have been lucky to obtain the injections at cost — $500 per shot — rather than the $1,500 to $2,000 per shot that the therapy typically costs. Her husband’s employer, which self-funds its medical insurance plan, chose a clause that excludes transgender care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of exclusion could change, especially since the Obama Administration recently issued \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-11458.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">final regulations on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> that ban the denial of health care on the basis of gender identity in programs that receive federal funding. The rule could help people who feel they have been discriminated against to bring complaints or lawsuits, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/12908\" target=\"_blank\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Oregon became the first state to provide Medicaid coverage for adolescents receiving puberty blockers. Medicaid programs in other states, including New York and California, have also expanded transgender healthcare coverage, although that does not mean that puberty blockers always are covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Early is Too Early?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treatment with puberty blockers gives transgender children a breather so they can continue to mature and decide whether they will pursue treatment with cross-sex hormones or gender reassignment surgery. For many families, the question is not whether to intervene with blockers, but how early to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the onset of puberty varies so widely — as early as age 9 for some — suppression can begin at different ages. And that’s prompted some disagreement within the field — the “age versus stage” debate — about when to begin, according to Leibowitz. Most often blockers are initiated at the first visible signs of development as measured by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.childgrowthfoundation.org/CMS/FILES/Puberty_and_the_Tanner_Stages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Stages\u003c/a>, a scale of sexual maturation developed by pediatrician James Tanner. The trigger for suppression is usually Tanner stage 2, when pubic hair and breast buds appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are able to suspend puberty as soon as it happens you’re optimizing the benefits that it can bring physically,” said Leibowitz. Starting early may alleviate the need for surgical breast removal or voice modification therapy later on. It also makes it far easier for transgender teens to fit in. “That ability to blend in and be perceived as the gender that they identify with is associated with long-term psychological benefits,” said Leibowitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But does that mean that 9- or 10-year-old transgender kids should be started on puberty blockers? Even though the treatment is reversible and is considered safe, Leibowitz said some clinicians argue the age issue is important because less is known about very early interventions. How long can puberty be safely suppressed? And if the next step is transitioning with cross-sex hormones, at what age should that begin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there is no treatment at all unless the parents of transgender children agree. “For most of my clients [who are minors], the issue revolves around whether they can start hormones or puberty blockers without parental consent, and the short answer is ‘No,”’ said Danielle Castro, a psychotherapist and project director at the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said families of some transgender youth refuse the intervention because they believe their children are “just going through a phase.” A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18981931\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> in 2008 found that 43 percent of very young children who experienced gender dysphoria no longer felt that way after adolescence. The 27 percent who remained dysphoric were the ones who had felt that way most strongly when they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young children may indeed change their minds, but gender identity seems to be fixed by the time kids have reached puberty. The Endocrine Society finds that transgender adolescents grow up to be transgender adults “100 percent of the time.” Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, \u003ca href=\"http://press.endocrine.org/doi/pdf/10.1210/jc.2014-1919\" target=\"_blank\">agrees\u003c/a>: “Children who meet the mental health criteria for gender dysphoria in adolescence are likely to be transgender for life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20646177\" target=\"_blank\">recent study\u003c/a> of 70 participants all the adolescents who had been given puberty blockers went through with sex reassignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Standard of Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the Oakland family had agreed in advance that their daughter would start on blockers at the right time, “we had to reassure her constantly that we wouldn’t let it go too far,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she turned 13, the girl started receiving monthly injections of Lupron, a widely prescribed sex hormone suppressor. “As soon as she started, you could just see the relief in her,” said the mother. “You could see it in her demeanor, in her mood; it was just a huge weight off her shoulders,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s insurer, Kaiser Permanente, covered the treatment. Puberty blockers are considered “standard of care in the appropriate clinical circumstances,” said Erica Metz, medical director for Transgender Health at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. According to Metz, the treatment “gives patients and their families time to work with their mental health and medical providers to determine if it is appropriate to start transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the girl was 14, she started taking estrogen — the next step in her male-to-female transition. Instead of growing facial hair and a male physique, she developed breasts and some curves. Her voice didn’t deepen, and she doesn’t have an Adam’s apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother described her daughter as a social, outgoing and well-adjusted teenager. She knows the \u003ca href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/suicide-attempts-among-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-adults/\" target=\"_blank\">grim mental health statistics\u003c/a> for transgender people — 41 percent have attempted suicide, nearly nine times the national average — and she doesn’t want to imagine a world where her daughter would be without puberty blockers, a medical intervention that she called a “lifesaver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thought of her having had to go through male puberty, I think it would have destroyed her mental health and well-being,” the mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Suppressors have also been used to treat endometriosis, uterine fibroids and prostate cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only in 2008 that \u003ca href=\"https://endocrine.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the Endocrine Society\u003c/a> approved puberty suppressors as a treatment for transgender adolescents as young as 12 years old. The Society, with members in more than 100 countries, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.endocrine.org/news-room/press-release-archives/2013/medical-intervention-in-transgender-adolescents-appears-to-be-safe-and-effective\" target=\"_blank\">since declared\u003c/a> that the intervention appears to be safe and effective. In 2011 the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wpath.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=1347&pk_association_webpage=4233\" target=\"_blank\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health\u003c/a> (WPATH), also issued Standards of Care for the treatment of patients with gender dysphoria, which include puberty suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'As soon as he got breast buds, it was like the panic button was hit. He was quickly and very intensely uncomfortable and afraid.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are few reported side effects to this off-label use of sex hormone suppressors. Despite early concerns that blocking sex hormones might harm bone development, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25427144\" target=\"_blank\">recent study\u003c/a> from the Netherlands found no evidence of long-term effects on bone mineral density. If the suppressors are halted, puberty resumes as if there had been no treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data on the use of puberty blockers is scarce, but in the past decade or so, it’s believed thousands of transgender youth and their families have chosen to suppress puberty to give adolescents a time-out while they figure out the next step in their development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A St. Louis, Mo., child was classified as female at birth, one of a set of twin girls. But the parents had been discussing puberty blockers with him since he was seven years old, after he had begun dressing as a boy and showing more masculine traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember watching a documentary where he learned what blockers were and we talked about it and he was sure that’s what he wanted when the time came,” said his mother, who also asked that the family’s names not be used to protect her child’s privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as he got breast buds, it was like the panic button was hit,” the mother said. “He was quickly and very intensely uncomfortable and afraid. He would cry, knowing that this was the beginning of something that he didn’t want, that he knew wasn’t right for him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, after the boy turned 11, a pediatric endocrinologist prescribed the sex hormone suppressor Eligard, an injection that he receives every four months. According to his mother, because they intervened early, the unwanted breast buds receded quickly, along with her son’s depression and anxiety. “I don’t know what we would have done if we were not able to stop puberty so he doesn’t have to feel in constant conflict with his own body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, according to the mother, the biggest problem their family has faced has been trying to get insurance coverage for her son’s treatment. She said they have been lucky to obtain the injections at cost — $500 per shot — rather than the $1,500 to $2,000 per shot that the therapy typically costs. Her husband’s employer, which self-funds its medical insurance plan, chose a clause that excludes transgender care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of exclusion could change, especially since the Obama Administration recently issued \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-11458.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">final regulations on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> that ban the denial of health care on the basis of gender identity in programs that receive federal funding. The rule could help people who feel they have been discriminated against to bring complaints or lawsuits, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/12908\" target=\"_blank\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Oregon became the first state to provide Medicaid coverage for adolescents receiving puberty blockers. Medicaid programs in other states, including New York and California, have also expanded transgender healthcare coverage, although that does not mean that puberty blockers always are covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Early is Too Early?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treatment with puberty blockers gives transgender children a breather so they can continue to mature and decide whether they will pursue treatment with cross-sex hormones or gender reassignment surgery. For many families, the question is not whether to intervene with blockers, but how early to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the onset of puberty varies so widely — as early as age 9 for some — suppression can begin at different ages. And that’s prompted some disagreement within the field — the “age versus stage” debate — about when to begin, according to Leibowitz. Most often blockers are initiated at the first visible signs of development as measured by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.childgrowthfoundation.org/CMS/FILES/Puberty_and_the_Tanner_Stages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Stages\u003c/a>, a scale of sexual maturation developed by pediatrician James Tanner. The trigger for suppression is usually Tanner stage 2, when pubic hair and breast buds appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are able to suspend puberty as soon as it happens you’re optimizing the benefits that it can bring physically,” said Leibowitz. Starting early may alleviate the need for surgical breast removal or voice modification therapy later on. It also makes it far easier for transgender teens to fit in. “That ability to blend in and be perceived as the gender that they identify with is associated with long-term psychological benefits,” said Leibowitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But does that mean that 9- or 10-year-old transgender kids should be started on puberty blockers? Even though the treatment is reversible and is considered safe, Leibowitz said some clinicians argue the age issue is important because less is known about very early interventions. How long can puberty be safely suppressed? And if the next step is transitioning with cross-sex hormones, at what age should that begin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there is no treatment at all unless the parents of transgender children agree. “For most of my clients [who are minors], the issue revolves around whether they can start hormones or puberty blockers without parental consent, and the short answer is ‘No,”’ said Danielle Castro, a psychotherapist and project director at the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said families of some transgender youth refuse the intervention because they believe their children are “just going through a phase.” A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18981931\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> in 2008 found that 43 percent of very young children who experienced gender dysphoria no longer felt that way after adolescence. The 27 percent who remained dysphoric were the ones who had felt that way most strongly when they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young children may indeed change their minds, but gender identity seems to be fixed by the time kids have reached puberty. The Endocrine Society finds that transgender adolescents grow up to be transgender adults “100 percent of the time.” Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, \u003ca href=\"http://press.endocrine.org/doi/pdf/10.1210/jc.2014-1919\" target=\"_blank\">agrees\u003c/a>: “Children who meet the mental health criteria for gender dysphoria in adolescence are likely to be transgender for life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20646177\" target=\"_blank\">recent study\u003c/a> of 70 participants all the adolescents who had been given puberty blockers went through with sex reassignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Standard of Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the Oakland family had agreed in advance that their daughter would start on blockers at the right time, “we had to reassure her constantly that we wouldn’t let it go too far,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she turned 13, the girl started receiving monthly injections of Lupron, a widely prescribed sex hormone suppressor. “As soon as she started, you could just see the relief in her,” said the mother. “You could see it in her demeanor, in her mood; it was just a huge weight off her shoulders,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s insurer, Kaiser Permanente, covered the treatment. Puberty blockers are considered “standard of care in the appropriate clinical circumstances,” said Erica Metz, medical director for Transgender Health at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. According to Metz, the treatment “gives patients and their families time to work with their mental health and medical providers to determine if it is appropriate to start transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the girl was 14, she started taking estrogen — the next step in her male-to-female transition. Instead of growing facial hair and a male physique, she developed breasts and some curves. Her voice didn’t deepen, and she doesn’t have an Adam’s apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother described her daughter as a social, outgoing and well-adjusted teenager. She knows the \u003ca href=\"http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/suicide-attempts-among-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-adults/\" target=\"_blank\">grim mental health statistics\u003c/a> for transgender people — 41 percent have attempted suicide, nearly nine times the national average — and she doesn’t want to imagine a world where her daughter would be without puberty blockers, a medical intervention that she called a “lifesaver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thought of her having had to go through male puberty, I think it would have destroyed her mental health and well-being,” the mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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