'I Am Jazz': My Intimate Conversation with Trans Tween Jazz & Her Mother Jeanette
Posted by: Janet Posted date: November 25, 2011
http://janetmock.com/2011/11/25/i-am-jazz-transgender-jeanette-documentary/Just a year or so after her fateful fifth birthday party, Jazz was coming out with Barbara Walters at her side on 20/20, telling the world that she was a transgender child and her family fully supported her.
"At first we were so scared to bring our story forward but with the way Jazz was, she had such a positive message to give other children and she was happy because we allowed her to transition," Jeanette reflects on deciding to let her child come out on national television. "It was the best thing we've ever done."
With Jazz ripe into Tweendom and approaching puberty, the family continues to tell their story as they help Jazz explore options towards growing into the young woman she desires to be.
"It's not a magic pill by any means," Jeanette says of the hormone-blocking medicine that will suppress Jazz's male puberty, in effect stopping Jazz from developing male secondary physical traits and buying the family some time to weigh their options, including undergoing hormone therapy to achieve physical female transition.
