Friday, 25 October 2019

TEEN HEROES - JAZZ JENNINGS





Hi guys, we all know that to be free and happy we have to be ourselves but for someone it’s not always that easy! Because for somebody being him/herself can mean to go against society.
This is the case of Jazz Jennings a young transsexual woman.
I’m going to use only female pronouns even when telling you about when she was a biologiacal man because in my opinion you can be whatever you feel even if it doesn’t match the gender you were born!!!

She was born on the 6th of October 2000 in south Florida and when she was about five years old she already knew she was a girl and not a boy so she told  her family that she was a transgender girl and luckily they always supported her. We all know that families do not always accept and support that kind of things but fortunately she was born in a family with open-minded opinions and that’s very rare for a Florida family, because that’s a state known to be a conservative one.


She received national attention in 2007 thanks to an interwiew with Barbara Walters. For the first time a young person was able to show her point of view with such innocence because she was only 7 years old so she had the innocence of a child. In the same year with her parents she was the co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation to help transgender children and in 2013 she founded Purple Rainbow Tails, a company in which she created rubber mermaid tails to raise money to help economically transgender children during their transitions.

In 2015 the first season of the documentary/tv-series about her day-times started and was seen by millions of viewers. The last season, (the fifth), was launched this year and ended with her gender surgery. Thanks to this tv-series she earned about 10/15 thousand dollars per episode. The show became so popular that probably next year another season will be launched. Six years ago Jazz even opened her YouTube channel. (from which she made around $28,000)                                                                                                                                                       .                                                

During an episode of hertv series Jazz and her two transgender (M to F) friends did a live on Facebook where she was answering questions. One important question that she was asked was “Have adults ever bullied you and how did you react to that?” her answer was “Yes” and she explained that many adults treats her poorly for being a trans. In my opinion that’s so wrong and horrible. Aduls rapresent the old generation and we know that many of them aren’t open-minded while they should teach us to respect everyone and to not consider someone different or inferior just because they are not like us!

Jazz’s campaign is relevant because there are many transgender children/teenagers who need money and support for their transitions.
I admire her from the bottom of my heart because she is one of the bravest teenager I’ve ever seen. Even if she’s scared of what people think of her, she is herself and I’m a little envious of her because I would like to be brave and show trueself like her. In a society where the words “trans”, “gay” or “lesbian” are used to pull someone's leg it is so difficult be an LGBT member. I admire them. Jazz is such an ispiration for us all.

I can’t stand people who say that you can’t be trans or gay just because they are transphobic and homophobic that makes no sense. It is like saying I am celiac, you can’t eat cookies! It’s madness!  
Lorenzo M. 

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