Transgender Tween Faces New Problems in Dating World
Barbara Walters reveals what she learned after revisiting a young girl who was born a boy.
04:15 | 01/18/2013http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/transgender-tween-enters-dating-world-faces-host-problems-18247676You are getting to the age, jazz, when girls and boys date.
Are you attracted to girls or to boys? "I'm attracted to boys." Are you afraid you might not have dates with boys?
"I am a little bit. But if any of the boys decline me because of my situation, then I just know they're not right for me at all."
Reporter: If you think life is complicated, try dealing with a transgender girl texting a boy she just met at school.
Mom: She's made a new friend. And it's a boy. I tell her, you know, you're going to have friends that are boys, they need to know immediately.
"I'm transgender. But I was a boy, but became a girl. I have a girl brain but a male body."
Reporter: A few moments later, the boy responds, obviously confused.
"He just sent me, you have a girl body, right?" That's a difficult question to ask.
Why don't you tell him to watch the videos.
Reporter: Jazz texted him back, to watch this online video of her.
"I think like a girl. But I just have a boy body."
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"I don't care what he thinks about me, if it's that -- if it's good, I'll be happy."
