A Heartbreaking Update In The Jazz Jennings Saga, The Media’s First Transgender Child
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A Heartbreaking Update In The Jazz Jennings Saga, The Media’s First Transgender Child

"I don't feel like me, ever."

Amanda Prestigiacomo

Twenty-two-year-old Jazz Jennings recently seemed to express dissatisfaction with his life post-gender transition, which began at the startling young age of 3.

Jazz’ transition was initiated by his parents and promoted by the mainstream media. By age 3, the biological boy was living at home as a girl, and by 4 1/2, Jazz was treated as a girl both inside the home and outside the home. The child’s fifth birthday party was swapped by the family to become a transgender coming-out party

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