My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender Children (20/20 Season) Part 3 of 3

Aired 27th April 2007
A report on some of the youngest transgender kids, including a six-year-old girl who was born a boy, a 10-year-old boy who lives as a girl and a 16-year-old-boy who was born a girl. Barbara Walters talks to these transgender children, all diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID), as well as to their parents, who are allowing their children to live in the gender they identify with in order to save them from a future of heartache and pain. They are sharing their personal stories to increase future understanding of transgender children.

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[jfreckles824]

WHY dont these parents MOVE! Its SOOO AWFUL! They denied it and hid from it for WAY to long....and Riley is the one who's suffering

[wwjd03779]

we are born the way we are born. i am bi and a none op transgender/transexual who is working on transitioning from male to female. i never asked to be born this way i am just who i am and am going to be me. so i understand how these childern feel and its sad that there are people out there who hate a builly people who are what they see as being not normal. we may not seem normal to them but we are normal just as they are normal for who they are and how they where born to be.

[Thanks4Nutin]

@dolphanman7 Then for your child's sake I hope they are not born transgendered. However, I will accept my child regardless.

[0XDG]

I wish my dad was accepting :/

[MrGarrettstorm]

GAAAH! This stuff makes me cry. ;_; I wish I knew that young.

[dolphanman7]

Half or Whole bunch of the times it is boys!

What The Fuck

When I am dad I would hate that!

[Shadowranger96]

@KatsKeyblade (continued) my dad asked if my school knew, i told him pretty much the whole of my year knew and my year head knew. He was silent, then he said that i should be able to go in a suit, and that he would support me wearing a suit to my prom no matter what others said. It'll take time, it took my dad 2yrs, but we are working on it, i know you may feel they dont understand you, but remember - it took you time to accept and learn who you are, they need to learn too, i hope all goes well

[Shadowranger96]

@KatsKeyblade i told my mum when i was 13, at first she was shocked, mainly because since i was 10 she was building up to me being a lesbian - she didnt know the right things to say. When i told my dad, we went into a coffee shop, and we talked. he said that he saw me as a tomboy, and that he would never call me a male name, i would always be his daughter, then seemed to forget about it when we left. im 15, and said how i was worried about prom, (i'll continue in another comment)

[KatsKeyblade]

I wish that I could tell my parents but I'm so afraid of what they would say. They already don't like my hair being short. It's so tough having to live a lie.

It would be awesome if my mom watched this, maybe to help understand