No statistics are provided by the magazine regarding transgendered teens. They must have shopped long and hard to come up with these two examples.
One thing is certain, the Gov't education system, a/k/a the public school system is systematically indoctrinating your children into the GLBT lifestyle as "normal". To that end, they have allowed GLSEN to sponsor a "student" lead event at thousands of schools across the US, including religious schools! Last year, Governor Gray Davis of California issued an official proclamation making April 10, 2002 the National Day of Silence.
So what is the Day of Silence?
The Day of Silence institutes a visible silence, a silence during which participants protest anti-LGBT discrimination and abuse. Such an effort also allows us to reflect upon how powerful silencing can be, to focus on how we can make our own voices stronger and to begin to stop silencing ourselves.
The fact that one of the teens in the above story had "his/her" outing event in a chapel truly stretches the lengths to which these individuals will go to be accepted as normal.
This trend is a downward spiral to full societal degeneration. I don't recall any other period in history, short of the Roman Empire, when these forms of behavior were accepted and blessed. If you have children in middle, junior or high school, check the Day of Silence web site to determine whether or not your school is already participating. Contact your school administrators and demand that it be terminated or than an alternative program be offered on the same day. Only you can stop this!