New Guide Offers Support To Parents Of Trans Youth

[Natasha]

New Guide Offers Support To Parents Of Trans Youth

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/07/070708youth.htm
7/7/2008

"To the outside world, Jamie was male. On the inside, it was a different story.

``To be honest, I thought everyone felt like I did,'' Jamie recalled.

``I thought everybody just had a major issue identifying with their gender and with sort of the body that they were in, and everybody was sort of dealing with it, so I didn't think I was different that way.''

Now 26, Jamie identifies as female. But the road towards living as a woman wasn't an easy one.

When she was younger, Jamie said she would find herself doing research online on where to find hormones and a therapist, but still hadn't quite made the connection."