PrideSource.com – compiled by Howard Israel
“I’m the same person I was last year and the year before, but I am transgender and will now come to school as a boy. You may not agree, but I hope you will respect me and my right to get a good education.”
– Tye Clark, a high school senior, interviewed in an article about transgender youths titled “Teens in Transition,” reminiscing about his announcement, as an eighth grader in the fall of 2004, to a series of four assemblies of students in middle school in suburban Philadelphia, www.philly.com, Oct. 20