20/20 - My Secret Self Pt.1

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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Entertainment

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• 2020
• 20/20
• my
• secret
• self
• transgendered
• children
• documentary
• report
• barbara
• GID
• disorder
• identity

[kokumusicismylove]

Such good parents. Beautiful x

[mgoss85]

youre an idiot. sexuality is in the brain. its not a learned behavior which can be cured.

[DeltasaUSMC]

I really feel for these kids and adults! It must be hell to feel this way and have to keep how you feel inside a secret because others wont accept you. I am not transgender or gay or anything but i am an accepting person. I dont not like others because of what they are and for people to do that to me is disgusting. To me when people come out or whatever they are being honest you and themselves and people should respect that!

[poodleshavings]

All the comments about how a child can't possibly tell the difference between a male and female is ridiculous. They were born this way and there's nothing wrong with it. Why don't you all stop being such paranoid jackasses and accept the natural and beautiful variance in humans instead of trying to fit square pegs into round holes? How does it affect YOU that someone else identifies with their opposite gender? It doesn't affect you so let it be!

[poodleshavings]

@LebPuppy Uh, because they're human? 2 year olds aren't that stupid.

[imsocoolrightnow]

@KadenLynn of course 5 , 6, 7, 8 year old know what gender they are they do know when i was 8 i knew i was a girl, you should undersand that since you are transgender

[DEATHbutler13]

@Number1Paroitfan97 (This is Ryn) You can shut the fuck up! I'm a FTM and I hate it when people say that they aren't who they want to be and I hate that people like you are saying all this shit about us so you can shut the fuck up!

[LebPuppy]

At 2 years old, how can a child possibly know that there's a physical difference between males and females? Especially when they have no siblings of the opposite sex...

[Dipstikk]

@jigglyfidda125 Yeah, darn the luck! They should have been born in a Sharia state, so you could celebrate over their deaths.

[ooOErzengelOoo]

You can hate me, but I'm confused. No "normal" 2-years-old kid thinks and knows about the differences between male and female genitals. And no average girl is such fixated on pink-glitter-stuff. Something is not healthy there. It looks like a transvestic fetishism to me.

[mollosaur]

Amazing, brilliant parents. If only they could all be like that. Awesome story. 

[whisper2moi]

,,,not a faul, not a birth defect...A unique individual struggling with self expression in a world that lives in a box!