Transgender teenage ballplayer at Santa Monica prep school spreads message of hope and acceptance

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LA Times/April 10, 2016, 4:00 AM Bill Plaschke•Contact Reporter

"As he steps into his new world, one filled with transparent hope and absent of suicidal despair, there is only one occasion when Jake Hofheimer dares to look back.

It is when he is coming to the plate for the New Roads School baseball team."

Encouraging story