Inspiration

Meet Jazz Jennings, The Transgender Teen Who Is Changing The World

''Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of TIME magazine and the publication claimed our culture had reached the “transgender tipping point,” a little girl was making waves on a national level simply for living as her authentic self.

Jazz Jennings, star of TLC reality show “I Am Jazz,” has had a very public relationship with her transition beginning in 2007. The world was first introduced to Jennings, who was just six at the time, when Barbara Walters interviewed her for a “20/20” special on transgender children, and she has continued to educate and inform individuals about gender-variant children and what it means to be transgender ever since...''

by James Michael Nichols