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Jazz Jennings

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Jazz Jennings is fourteen years old. She is an advocate, who speaks at schools and conferences across the country about being transgender. Her books include I Am Jazz and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. (Bowker Author Biography)

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I Am Jazz (2014) 597 exemplaren

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I remember watching Jazz Jennings TV show when I was younger and then she wrote her own auto-biography. Jazz grew up as a transgender woman, she started her transition at 5 years old. This book tells her life story from her childhood growing up transgender and everything she has faced to become the person she is.
 
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ergoldie | 14 andere besprekingen | Feb 15, 2024 |
I think this book is very well done. It’s not really a biography, more of a this is me and could be you, and that is okay. It’s a story to read that show differences as natural and accepted. This book is not preachy and is not trying to turn more kids trans (as is sometimes suggested). It is a sweet picture book about a child who experienced something other kids may experience as well.
 
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LibrarianRyan | 72 andere besprekingen | Sep 21, 2023 |
I read this book because a review of it was "in progress" during Banned Books Week 2022 in my racist, radical right-wing rural Republican school district, that had already banned Out of Darkness by another Latina author, for "sexually explicit content."

Subtitled "My Life as a (Transgender) Teen," Being Jazz is a memoir by transgender rel="nofollow" target="_top">Jazz Jennings of her first 16 years.  Assigned male at birth, Jazz was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at a very young age.  The book details some of hers and her parents' struggles to allow her to dress as a girl at school and play soccer on the girls' team, and later some of their transgender activism.

The book is clearly written by a teen, and would be a good read for teens and tweens (and adults) to learn more about being transgender, recognizing that many transgender youth don't have the supportive parents and family Jazz has. If anything, that makes a book like this even more needed in a repressive community like mine.

So what happened with this book in my local school libraries?  Apparently, this book made it through the challenge process (although why it did and Out of Darkness did not is beyond me).  As of this writing, the book is listed in the online catalog as available in the main high school library (but not at the alternative high school).  I borrowed the copy I read from the e-book collection of another public library in Texas, as my local public library does not own a copy (physical or electronic).… (meer)
 
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