Transgender At 11 – Listening To Jazz

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[Transgender At 11 - Listening To Jazz]

[Barbara Walters] Source: LYBIO.net
Good evening. They are the words that any parent would want to hear about their daughter. She is such a remarkable little girl. For a girl named Jazz, the word remarkable doesn’t begin to cover it. At just 11-years old, she has taken what most children and their families would regard as a terrible secret and brought it smashing into the open. She is the brave and beautiful new face of a child born in the wrong body. Describe Jazz to us.

[Jeanette]
Vibrant, happy, full of life, self confident, beautiful, glowing.

[Barbara Walters] Source: LYBIO.net
Feminine?

[Jeanette]
So feminine.

[Barbara Walters]
She wears pink cleats on the soccer field.

[Jazz]
Do you like my new bra?

[Barbara Walters] Source: LYBIO.net
And padded bras. She not only dreams of mermaids, she swims like one. If you didn’t know it, would you believe this 11-year old girl was biologically a boy? Let’s get this straight Jazz. Are you a boy or a girl?

[Jazz]
I am definitely a girl, like, that’s all I consider myself as. I am sorry, I know I never do anything with my hair but.

[Barbara Walters]
Jazz is transgender, a boy living as a girl.

[Jazz]
I have a girl brain and boy body.

[Barbara Walters]
Hi. When we first met Jazz in 2007, she was only six years old and one of the youngest documented cases of an early transition from male to female.

[Jeanette]
We’ll say things like God made you special, because there aren’t very many little girls out there that have a penis.

[Barbara Walters]
At age five, her parents Jeanette and Greg made an extraordinary decision, they allowed Jazz to openly identify the opposite gender, because they and their doctor were convinced this was not a phase, but a condition now called gender dysphoria.

[Jeanette] Source: LYBIO.net
A phase is called the phase, because it is just that, it ends. And this is not ending, this is just getting stronger.

[Barbara Walters]
As difficult as it is for people to understand, you only had to walk into Jazz’s bedroom as I did. “Oh how pretty.” To know this was a passing fad. It was filled with girly things, dresses and dolls. But it was a picture she drew that made Jazz’s world crystal clear. Tell me about this picture. Why is that little girl crying?

[Jazz]
Because she wants to wear this dress to school.

[Barbara Walters]
And Mummy won’t let her?

[Jazz]
Yeah.

[Barbara Walters] Source: LYBIO.net
But now, does mummy let the little girl wear dress?

[Jazz]
Hmmm hmm.

[Barbara Walters]
Is the little girl you?

[Barbara Walters]
Five years later, Jazz is little Jazz. Has Jazz shown any desire to change and go back being a boy?

[Jeanette] Source: LYBIO.net
(No) Never.

[Barbara Walters]
Today, Jazz’s bedroom is lined with photos from cheer leading and girl’s soccer. She draws and sows. Carefully seaming together her own mermaid outfits.

[Jazz]
It’s like cool. The motion makes me feel like you are an actual mermaid.

[Barbara Walters]
In fact, many young male to female trans kids are obsessed with mermaids.

[Jeanette]
I believe it’s because of the ambiguous genitalia. There is nothing below the waist but a tail and how appealing is that for somebody who doesn’t like what’s down there.

[Barbara Walters]
No one knows why thousands of children like Jazz are transgender. There are only theories.

[Jazz]
Mom, is that a mermaid?

[Barbara Walters]
Despite growing awareness, many still face unthinkable obstacles from the world that sees them as freaks of nature. Do people treat you differently when they know you are transgender?

[Jazz]
Yes, they do. They don’t understand what the concept means, and they think that I am weird and that I shouldn’t have the same rights as them just because of what’s between my legs.

[Barbara Walters] Source: LYBIO.net
You know that there are people who think, you could have prevented it. Why did you allow it to happen?

[Jeanette]
Yeah, there is people who definitely think that.

[Barbara Walters]
And what do you say?

[Jeanette]
I don’t really care what they think,

[Barbara Walters]
Jazz is fortunate. Her parents and three siblings accept her and as much as they can, keep her safe, which is why they asked us not to use their last name or location.

[Father]
I think the family is very supportive of Jazz. We’ve tried to make things as normal and ordinary American family as we can. The older twins are looking out for Jazz, Aurae the older sister and her friends hang out with Jazz, they treat Jazz like a little sister.

[Barbara Walters]
What do you explain to people about your sister?

[Sister]
I tell people that it’s a disorder and that it wasn’t, it’s not by choice.

[Barbara Walters]
How do you feel Jazz when your sister says it’s a disorder?

[Jazz]
Personally, I don’t like that word that much, I’d prefer special or unique, because that’s what I think being transgender is.

[Barbara Walters] Source: LYBIO.net
But others have different words to describe Jazz, hateful words as they discovered after posting this video on YouTube.

[Jazz]
Hi, I am Jazz I am 11 years old, I was born a boy, but I live as a girl.

[Barbara Walters]
Sharing Jazz’s story has come at a price. Are you ever worried about your safety? I mean, does anybody threaten you?

[Jazz]
Yeah, on the YouTube video some people who are less understanding actually say very nasty and rude comments. It definitely hurts to hear them say that, they would want to kill me or something like that.

[Jeanette]
They can’t wrap their mind around the idea of a transgender kid. And I want to tell everybody they are wrong and show them Jazz, because when people meet her, they start to get it.

[Barbara Walters]
Jazz has a handful of girlfriends. They’ve all started middle school, a challenging and precarious time, but especially for a transgender teen, she is known in school as a girl, thanks to her parents lobbying and her passport even shows her as female. The faculty and some students know about her special situation, she uses the girl’s bathroom and even plays on the girl’s soccer team. You love to play soccer?

[Jazz]
Yeah.

[Barbara Walters]
And you are pretty good at it, right?

[Jazz] Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah.

[Barbara Walters]
Yeah. But at the age of eight, she was banned from girl’s soccer by league officials. What do you say to people who say, well, you know she is biologically a boy, therefore she is stronger and she shouldn’t be on that team?

[Jazz]
I do not agree with them, because I am like one of the smallest people on my team compared to the other girls. They are all very tall and more masculine and I am sort of smaller but I am quicker.

[Barbara Walters]
Jazz fought back and after two-and-a-half year legal battle, won the right to play as a girl. An unprecedented victory that opened the door for all transgender kids.

Jazz is clearly making a difference and embracing the spotlight, advocating for transgender rights, receiving awards, posing on the red carpet, meeting stars like Debra Messing and riding in New York’s gay pride parade.

[Jeanette]
She is a wonderful spokesperson for trans kids, because she is a happy transgender kid, and those two words are never in the same sentence.

[Barbara Walters]
Happy, but perplexed by her latest new challenge. You are getting to the age, Jazz, when girls and boys date, are you attracted to girls or to boys?

[Jazz] Source: LYBIO.net
I am attracted to boys.

[Barbara Walters]
Are you afraid that you might not have dates with boys?

[Jazz] Source: LYBIO.net
I am a little bit, but if any of the boys decline me because of my situation, then I just know they are not right for me at all.

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