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Trans Teen Jazz Jennings Refuses To Let The Trump Administration Tell Her Who Sh

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Trans Teen Jazz Jennings Refuses To Let The Trump Administration Tell Her Who She Is

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jazz-jennings-trump-transgender-memo_us_5bd0ae00e4b0a8f17ef36bed?fbclid=IwAR3knNSer-3R2-_Bi_GgtWNDCaUM9Sgee0mQzmP8ugQprSJ3MMLah28ipkw

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By Ja'han Jones     10/24/2018 06:51 pm ET



"HUFFPOST PERSONAL
10/24/2018 06:51 pm ET
Trans Teen Jazz Jennings Refuses To Let The Trump Administration Tell Her Who She Is

By Ja'han Jones

ABC News Videos
Jazz Jennings stars in "I Am Jazz" on TLC.

When a recent memo was revealed exposing the Trump administration's proposal to begin strictly defining gender, LGBTQ advocates and allies around the country decried its apparent intent to erase transgender people.
But for activists like Jazz Jennings, the 18-year-old star of TLC's reality show "I Am Jazz," the threat of erasure is far from new. Long before networks began chronicling her life and tracing her every step, Jennings, a trans woman, was a relatively obscure trailblazer at her elementary school in South Florida."
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