News about Jazz Jennings

Beginning Monday, Los Angeles elementary schools with children as young as five will celebrate 'National Coming Out Day' for a week. One of the celebrations is a 'Identity Nap' project, which is aimed at teaching'students' to think critically about identity and intersectionality.' Elementary teachers in the district received a "Week of Action Toolkit" from the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education. According to reports, the toolkit includes lesson plans that the district deems appropriate for elementary students on LGBTQ+ topics. The celebration is a stark contrast to their bicoastal counterparts in Florida, where LGBT+ discussions in schools have almost entirely been outlawed, as well as some books.

More than half of trans surgery patients suffered with pain during sex, and nearly every third of patients were unable to regulate their bladders after surgery, according to University of Florida researchers. In the weeks and months after going under the knife, nearly four quarters of those who underwent gender-affirming surgeries, as they are known, complained of pain mainly because of getting around in the weeks and months. Trans medicine advocates promote the surgeries as a trade-off, acknowledging the significant drawbacks but insisting that they are vital for those with significant problems with their own body.

'Call Me Max,' a picture book written by a transgender man, tells the tale of a child who identifies as transgender and is now being read aloud to children as young as four in Minnesota, according to state public school officials. The 32-page story, published in 2019, depicts a boy who struggles with the gender they were born with and asks teachers to identify them by a boy's name. Since its inception a few years ago, it has been outlawed in schools in several US states, such as Texas and Florida, after inciting protests and outrage amongst outraged parents. The book has since resurfaced on shelves in the Great Lake state, causing one parent, 47-year-old LaDawn Severin of Minneapolis, to slam officials at a recent school district board meeting.

The paper's open letter, delivered to the Times on Wednesday, states that it is obtaining "bias, fringe theories, and inaccurate information" in its coverage of transgender people, as well as "the lead of a far-right hate group" in its coverage of transgender issues. Nearly 170 Times contributors, some of whom are transgender, non-binary, and gender-conforming, signed the letter, which included hundreds of professionals in the entertainment industry, as well as leading advocates, activists, and organizations in the LGBTQ community.

Jeanette Jennings, 56, shares how she was compelled to advocate for her transgender children on this week's episode of TLC reality TV's I Am Jazz. Jazz's mother reveals that she had to remind her she was 'extra' and "unique' because she was mocking 'acting girlsy,' while she was in preschool.' Jazz, a male child, morphed to female when she was in kindergarten after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

On Tuesday's episode of her TLC reality show I Am Jazz, Jennings, 22, goes on her first date in four years with fellow Florida resident Dayron. They are treated to a private dance lesson at a bar led by a buxom blonde tutor, Maria, who proudly displays her hair flip during the double date. When Dayron begins to convince Jazz to try the dance move, she says she is 'nervous.'

Josh Duggar was arrested and found guilty of unlawful pornography last year, it completely destroyed the wholesome on-screen image that he and his family had worked so hard to build over the course of their multiple TLC appearances. And although Josh's deposition may have been the nail in the coffin for the family's plot, which had resulted in their series being cancelled after more than a decade on television, their reputation had been tarnished for years, amid numerous other scandals and controversies over the years. The parents' bizarrely stringent set of rules that they enacted for their 19 children, which undoubtedly ignited the world's concern for the family. Jim Bob, 57, and Michelle, 56, are members of a strange Christian group led by shunned minister Bill Gothard, which stated that children must be homeschooled, dressed modestly, and avoid all contact with the opposite sex before marriage. In a scathing tell-all with People magazine, Jinger, 29, the seventh oldest of the Duggar children, sent shockwaves around the world as she slammed her parents''' "harmful" beliefs, but denied the long-term effects that they suffered with. FEMAIL has shed a light on a slew of scandals that have thrown the family's family has been shaken by, from Josh's illicit activity to Jim Bob's stringent religious laws.