article_snippet: It's the latest show to focus on transgender individuals, along with Discovery Life's "New Girls on the Block" and ABC Family's "My Transparent Life," on the heels of Amazon's Golden Globe-winning comedy,
article_snippet: " Opinion: 'It's a girl!'
article_snippet: Recognition of transgender people in the media shows mainstream America
article_snippet: we're real people," said Christine Connelly, a member of the board of directors of the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth who came out as transgender woman five years ago.
article_snippet: Experience how one family reacted when one family daughter said their daughter's a boy.
article_snippet: their daughter was the first young person who picked up the national spotlight, went on TV and was able to articulate their daughter perspective and point of view with such innocence," Connelly said.
article_snippet: their daughter even co-wrote a children's book in 2014 based on their daughter experience, "I am All That Jazz," about a transgender girl.
article_snippet: their daughter parents also demonstrated Her parents unwavering support for their daughter early on, something transgender children can't always count on, their daughter said.
article_snippet: their daughter was 6 years old and had just started appearing in public as a female, in what the report called "one of the youngest known cases of an early transition from male to female.
article_snippet: It was eliminated from the American Psychiatric Association manual in 2012 and replaced with "gender dysphoria," a condition in which people feel strongly that people are not the gender people physically appear to be.
article_snippet: A Family in Transition.