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Reflections on FRONTLINE'S Program GROWING UP TRANS

One of the great joys of life is going to a dinner party and finding out everyone there wants to discuss the same issue. So it was with this Blogger, when he attended a Dinner Party on July 1, 2015, and discovered everyone there wanted to discuss the June 30 th episode of PBS FRONTLINE’s program, GROWING UP TRANS. It was a television program about Trans children and Trans teenagers, and is the best TV program of 2015. PREFACE- the following is excerpted from the FRONTLINE notes on the program. “ …. For earlier generations of transgender people, the only way to transition physically was through surgery or taking hormones as adults . However, new medical options are allowing transgender children to start the process of transitioning at younger ages….. When someone makes the decision to transition, part of that process can be social — choosing a new name, changing pronouns, wearing different clothes — and part of it can be medical. One of the more recent medical deve