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Transgender youth: Advocates say students need more safeguards

By CHLOE JOHNSON
Staff Writer
Article Date: Sunday, January 20, 2008

Transgender youth need more protections in schools, advocates and parents say.

Children who express a gender identity opposite of their outward appearance often are bullied. But those who repress their identities because they don't feel safe are at a high risk of suicide, according to advocates.

One Seacoast parent whose child came out as transgender in high school said he and his wife struggled over how to keep their daughter from harm.

I think coming out in the education system, gradeschool through college is harder than any other age of transition... children and young adults are so cruel...
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