Transgender Shares Her Powerful Journey To Womanhood
Listen to the Story
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/03/136921779/transgender-shares-her-powerful-journey-to-womanhood (http://www.npr.org/2011/06/03/136921779/transgender-shares-her-powerful-journey-to-womanhood)
The letter T in LGBT stands for transgender, a term used for people who feel they were born the wrong gender. Recently Janet Mock, an editor at People.com, revealed she was born a boy. Mock says she knew she was meant to be a girl since she was four. Mock talks about her family and her transition.
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Message For Transgender Kids From One Who's Been There: You Matter
June 3, 2011
by Mark Memmott
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/03/136923024/message-for-transgender-kids-from-one-whos-been-there-you-matter (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/03/136923024/message-for-transgender-kids-from-one-whos-been-there-you-matter)
"Kids who grew up like me needed to know that despite the fact that their internal sense of gender did not match their sexual organs ... they mattered."
That's why, People.com associate editor Janet Mock said today on Tell Me More, she decided to reveal in a book, on the pages of Marie Claire magazine and in an It Gets Better Project video that she made the transition from male to female.