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20/20, April 26, 2007
This link sends you to the website of the breakthrough ABC News program which has opened many minds and hearts to the phenomenon of transgender children.
"I Want to Be Seen as Male", begins: "On Sept. 19, 2004, 14-year-old Rebecca gave a startling letter to her mother, Betsy". Read More
Current Health, a publication of Weekly Reader, February 28, 2008
"Transgender Teens -- Teens Born In the Wrong Bodies"
  Guardian News and Media Limited, February 20, 2008
Growing up in chiaroscuro --
For transgendered children, the process of reaching adulthood is riven with bullying and misunderstanding: it could be different. Transgendered children are one of the most isolated and misunderstood groups in our society. Yet the means to address their plight is in the hands of everyone, especially those in charge of health and education.
Denver Post, June 19, 2008 - "Douglas County child, 8, wants to live as a girl"
Rocky Mountain News, March 8, 2008 - 'It's me in a different way" A profile of two TYFA Families
XPress Magazine, November 2, 2007 - "Child's Choice: One boy's path to girlhood"
Advocate Magazine, January 25, 2008 - "Life Without Puberty: Hormone blockers for minors, the trans movement's new frontier"
by TYFA Board Member, Andrea James
The Bottom Line (San Diego), (undated) - "DIFFERENCE ISN’T WRONG…IT JUST IS
(EMBRACING FAMILIES WITH TRANSGENDER AND GENDER VARIANT
CHILDREN"
by Kim Pearson, Executive Director, TYFA