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How Jazz Jennings Changed the World for Trans Youth Simply by Being Herself
Variety ^ | 06 03 2021 | Caroline Framke

Posted on 06/03/2021 3:43:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

In 2007, six-year-old Jazz Jennings went on national television to tell Barbara Walters the same thing she’d been telling her parents, siblings and anyone else who would listen: She was, despite her birth certificate’s insistence otherwise, a girl.

Shy and sweet, Jennings answered Walters’ probing questions with the clarity and patience of someone used to explaining herself over and over again. “She was so charismatic, so charming and so clearly herself,” Laverne Cox says of first seeing that “20/20” interview. “Her humanity was so on display that you couldn’t deny she had the right to be who she was.” It was a watershed moment for transgender visibility in media, not least because it made Jennings one of the youngest documented trans people to speak her truth for millions of viewers to hear.

It’d be easy for Jennings to say she always knew that moment would be life-changing. Looking back, though, she mostly just remembers it as something she got to brag about at recess. “I think there was like, one kid from school who recognized me from TV,” Jennings, now 20, recalls over a recent Zoom call from her home in South Florida. “Maybe my confidence increased a bit because I was like, ‘I’m on TV!’ like any little kid would think about it.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Oldeconomybuyer

Pikers.

Abase yourselves before the Infinite EMF, Priest of Power, Guru of Gigawatts, and Exalted Keeper of The Most Sacred Switch.


61 posted on 06/03/2021 5:55:14 PM PDT by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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To: yesthatjallen

He’s not been himself since the day his Mommy Dearest persuaded him to reject his own DNA.


62 posted on 06/03/2021 5:56:54 PM PDT by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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To: glimmerman70

who the hell is SHE?

Your wife?


63 posted on 06/03/2021 5:58:04 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Gen.Blather

What is amazing is that the Normals somehow let the Crazy Deviants take control and run things.


64 posted on 06/03/2021 6:01:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: yesthatjallen

Homosexuals sure have a nutty agenda


65 posted on 06/03/2021 6:02:32 PM PDT by wardaddy (Feel my warmth)
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To: lee martell

Women enable queerdom

Always have sad to say


66 posted on 06/03/2021 6:03:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (Feel my warmth)
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To: yesthatjallen

But “herself” pre surgery was a boy?


67 posted on 06/03/2021 6:05:12 PM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Fungi

Their lives are full of despair; we can only pity them.


68 posted on 06/03/2021 6:47:44 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Chickensoup

No... I meant jazz has issues. Wow.


69 posted on 06/03/2021 7:34:04 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: suthener

Will try sonic. Crazy crap was about the show and jazz. Read a story a while back about transgenders that are having regrets about the surgeries. They can’t come back from this stuff. Like I said, I believe GOD don’t make mistakes when he makes you.


70 posted on 06/03/2021 7:45:28 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
"...He said he hated his male organs even as a child. He would tuck them in and look at himself in the mirror..."

Too many viewings of Silence of The Lambs apparently.

71 posted on 06/03/2021 8:40:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: yesthatjallen; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

NOPE. This disturbed young MAN needs some serious help.


72 posted on 06/03/2021 8:41:14 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I’ve decided to identify as an astronaut. My new pronouns are Commander and Chief Engineer.“

I’m identifying as Bernie Sanders.
Just long enough to sell my three mansions, then I’ll hide the proceeds and renounce my identity as Bernie ,
It will be good for Bernie because he can be a broke socialist as socialists should be.


73 posted on 06/03/2021 8:49:31 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: yesthatjallen

He didn’t change anything, not even his sex. His mother should be in prison for child abuse.


74 posted on 06/03/2021 9:38:56 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Celerity

Six-year-olds are not well-spoken, unless they have adults coaching them. And if he/she/it was a girl when six years old, that condition would not change by waiting for adulthood.


75 posted on 06/04/2021 4:19:16 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: yesthatjallen

“it made Jennings one of the youngest documented trans people to speak her truth for millions of viewers to hear.”

TV is not reality. Reality is not TV. You cut off your sack, there’s no going back. And what you suffer years later will no longer interest a TV audience, because it will be real.


76 posted on 06/04/2021 4:21:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: rlmorel

That would mess up anyone.


77 posted on 06/04/2021 7:10:50 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: glimmerman70

“Crazy crap was about the show and jazz.”

I know, I was just joking about that. We’ve gone through normalizing homosexuals, people who think they’re the opposite sex, and now they seem to be pushing to make polygamy and polyandry and pedophilia normal. Crazy times we’re living in.


78 posted on 06/04/2021 7:16:03 AM PDT by suthener
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To: suthener

Lol. Tried watching a episode of sister wives. I told my wife these guys are using religion or what ever excuse they make up to have sex with multiple girls. I can’t afford 1 wife much less 3..


79 posted on 06/04/2021 8:02:56 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: blueplum
A 6yo has no permanent sense of identity because the brain isn’t developed enough for what is an advanced concept - that the child is actually separate from the parents and the body they are born into can’t change into a pony.

I remember wanting to be a chemist when I grew up because of the beautifully colored liquids in the test tubes in the Dupont ads on tv. As it turned out, I never took a STEM class after the required biology and algebra in 9th grade, had a sterling career in the applied arts, learned to speak several languages, and hang out in libraries, museums and theaters. Thank God I never told my parents I wanted to be a chemist.

80 posted on 06/04/2021 3:26:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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