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Letters: Helping transgender kids
June 20, 2012
Re "Early help on a hard path," Column One, June 15 As a school psychologist with the Los Angeles Unified School District for nearly 30 years, I saw a number of children with early signs of having a transgender identity. Some boys, when asked to draw a person, would scrawl a girl in ruffles and jewelry. When asked their three Pandora Christmas Charms wishes, invariably they would be creatively atypical. They also preferred to play with the opposite sex and often begged to stay in the classroom during recess because of the cruelty out on the playground.
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Transgender teen could face charges for making up assault story
March 5, 2014 By Ari Bloomekatz and Adolfo Flores
Police say they have not yet decided whether to recommend filing charges against a Northern California transgender teen who made up a story about being sexually assaulted and beaten in a school bathroom. The 15 year old recanted his claim about the alleged pandora 14k gold charms christmas sale Monday attack after investigators informed him there was little to no evidence to back it up, said Det. Connie Van Putten of the Hercules Police Department. "We were unable to substantiate any of the statements he made," Van Putten said, adding police did not find any injuries to the boy that would have corroborated the attack and that a sexual assault examination had been performed.
A transgender story: My daughter, my son
October 7, 2012 By Ann Whitford Paul
Sarah, once my daughter, is now Finn, a member of the transgender community. Those are hard words to write. I want to love the man my daughter has become, but floundering in the torrent of her change and my resistance to it, I fear I'll never make it across my river of anger and sorrow. I think about Sarah growing up, how she always acted with courage and fortitude. In junior high she studied Russian because it was "a challenge. " In high school she proved she wasn't too small to play water polo goalie.
Transgender student allegedly attacked by boys in school bathroom
March 4, 2014 authentic pandora jewelry bracelets christmas clearance By Ari Bloomekatz
Police in the small Northern California city of Hercules have launched a sexual assault and hate crime investigation after a transgender student was allegedly attacked by three teenage boys while using a bathroom that matches his gender identity. The 15 year old Hercules Middle High Schoolstudent, who is female but identifies as male, said that as he was exiting the boys bathroom Monday morning he was confronted by "three unidentified male juveniles," according to a news release from the Hercules Police Department.
Letters: A transgender homecoming queen
September 21, 2013
Re "In the running, as herself," Sept. 19 Transgender teen Cassidy Lynn Campbell would get my vote for homecoming queen at Marina High School. Not only is she beautiful, she is smart, brave and true to herself. Kudos to Marina High and her parents for allowing her to be who she is. Marsha Pasarow Schiff Los Angeles ALSO: Mailbag: Fight over food stamps Letters: Obamacare and public opinion Letters: Back and forth on Syria policy
Conservatives target law on transgender students
August 16, 2013 By Chris Megerian
SACRAMENTO Conservatives are gearing up to fight a new law requiring schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity instead of their physical sex. Two activists, with the support of a conservative legal group called the Pacific Justice Institute, began Friday the Pandora Christmas Jewelry process for overturning the measure at the ballot box. Glionna
SALT LAKE CITY Two embarrassed Utah lawmakers were apologetic after a spontaneous Twitter exchange that made light of changing genders instantly went viral on social media. Among those seizing upon the exchange was an LGBT activist who decided to turn an insult into an opportunity for education. Brandie Balken, the executive director of Equality Utah, a nonprofit group advocating on behalf of gay and transgender residents in this conservative state, arranged for an impromptu meeting of legislative staffers at the state house Monday night to discuss transgender issues.