Crossover Kids
The difficulties of a transgender childhood
In the US more and more children are defining themselves as transgender, throwing up a number of complex questions. Following first-grader Coy Mathis, this report investigates the world of transgender kids.
She likes dressing up, gravitates towards the colour pink, and enjoys playing with her dolls...but Coy was born a boy. For kids like Coy, living as the other gender can end years of unhappiness and feelings of "being born into the wrong body". Yet transgender communities face deep social stigma and discrimination in the US. So how young is too young to change sex?
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