http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/03/136923024/message-for-transgender-kids-from-one-whos-been-there-you-matter
“Kids who grew up like me needed to know that despite the fact that their internal sense of gender did not match their sexual organs … they mattered.”
That’s why, People.com associate editor Janet Mock said today on Tell Me More, she decided to reveal in a book, on the pages of Marie Claire magazine and in an It Gets Better Project video that she made the transition from male to female.
“Nearly half of transgender youth contemplate wanting to kill themselves,” Mock said during a conversation with Tell Me More host Michel Martin. She wants them to know that they can get through what are hard times. Things do, in fact, get better.