‘I Am a Girl’: Transgender Children Face a Society Slow to Accept Them
Today some 2,500 young people are gathered for the final day of the annual Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference, held this year at the Kansas City Convention Center and hosted by LGBT groups at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
In the 21 years since the conference began, no one denies the advances that gay, lesbian and bisexual people have made in winning broader acceptance and civil rights, as evidenced by the open policy toward gays in the military and the growing legalization of same-sex marriage.
Yet when it comes to public understanding of the T’s in the LGBT community, many agree that transgender people have largely been left behind.
“They’re lagging — maybe a decade or more,” said Jill Jacobson, an endocrinologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital.
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