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Jazz Jenning's was born on October 6, 2000.She has one older sister and two twin older brothers. Jazz always knew she was a girl trapped in a boys body at the age of 14 year olds. When she was 2 years old she started questioning her identity, her pediatrician told her parents she likely had a transgender identity disorder and was sent to a therapist. Out in the world she lived as a boy she wore boy clothes to appear gender neutral. But in her home she would embrace herself as a girl. Jazz at the age of 4 didnt like having to hide who she was so for her 5 year old birthday party she put on a one-piece swimsuit and told her friends she was a girl. But they had referred to her as a girl. Since then Jazz has embraced who she was growing up she grew out her hair, pierced her ears, painted her nails, wore dresses, high heels, and makeup. When she turned 11 she went on testosterone and then started taking estrogen and went trough puberty. Jazz began speaking out about her identity and started gaining some supporters. Her parents and siblings where always afraid for Jazz they were always scared that they would get a phone call about something happening to her.

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"I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body."

Those words come from 14-year-old Jazz Jennings, a transgender teen who has announced that she will open up about her day-to-day troubles and triumphs in dating, sleepovers and high school this summer in a new reality show on the cable TV network TLC called "All That Jazz."

For the record, Jennings is not her real last name, according to TLC. While she has been called " the public face of transgender children," her true name is not public, concealed because her parents fear for her safety.

In recent years, Jazz has become a prominent young activist in the transgender community. In 2012, she became the youngest person to hit the Advocate's "Top Forty Under 40," CNN reported. In 2013, she was honored at the GLADD Awards. She was recognized last year as a Human Rights Campaign youth ambassador, and she was named in Time's " Top 25 Most Influential Teens" and the Huffington Post's " 14 Most Fearless Teens of 2014," among other honors.

"With Time magazine, she was screeching, 'Oh my goodness! I'm on the list with Malala!' She felt the company she was with, she was not worthy," her mother told the Miami Herald last year. "But she is worthy. To be compared in the same list as these people, it's extremely overwhelming for her and she feels so flattered."

She has co-written a children's book based on her experiences called " I Am Jazz," making her a voice for "transkids everywhere," as her publisher put it. She said she wanted to let other transgender children and their families know that it's " okay to be different."

And just last week she became a new face in Clean & Clear's new digital advertising campaign intended to encourage people to share their personal stories using the hashtag #SeeTheRealMe in an effort to promote natural beauty.

"I feel really honored to be part of the #SeeTheRealMe campaign," she told the Huffington Post last week. "It's really amazing, as it helps many teen girls who are struggling. It helps them to find themselves and be true to who they are. I hope they can learn to be brave and not care what other people think about them, because if they just stay positive and spread love, then others will be true friends who will accept them no matter what."

Jazz started questioning her gender identity when she was 2 years old. Her pediatrician told her parents she likely had a gender-identity disorder, and she was sent to a therapist. Until kindergarten, Jazz lived as a boy, wearing pants in public to appear gender-neutral. At home, she was embraced as a girl. But hiding who she really was wasn't working for Jazz, her parents told Barbara Walters back in 2007. So, on her fifth birthday, she pulled on a one-piece swimsuit and told her friends she was a girl.

"They referred to her as a boy," her mother said on ABC's "20/20." "But kids are very accepting at that age. They believe what you tell them. She is a boy but she wants to be a girl, so we let her wear a [girl's] bathing suit." At the time, ABC News described her as "one of the youngest known cases of an early transition from male to female."

Indeed, Jazz stepped onto a very public stage, but her family still wanted to protect her identity for fear of bullying. Her parents were referenced by ABC News as Scott and Renee Jennings. Now they go by Greg and Jeanette, TLC said.

Jazz's father told ABC News that he feared for his child.

"Every day I'm afraid that I might get a call that something happened," he said back in 2007. "We have older brothers, and an older sister, that are always looking out for her. Keeping their eyes on her."

Since then, Jazz has grown out her hair and pierced her ears. She paints her nails. She wears dresses, high heels and makeup. When she turned 11, she went on testosterone blockers.

"It blocked all the testosterone or else I would have a hairy beard right now, which I don't, so I'm thankful for that," she said last year in a video on her YouTube channel. Her parents have said that a few years after she started the testosterone treatment - if she still wished to identify as a girl - she would start taking estrogen and go through puberty. If she ever decides to have sex reassignment surgery, her parents said they will support her decision.

More and more, Jazz has started speaking out and, because of that, she has a steady following of supporters. More than 34,000 people subscribe to her YouTube channel, where she sometimes posts Q&As about what it's like to be a transgender teen. She has more than 21,000 followers on Instagram. One of her most recent photos was for the NOH8 Campaign, an advocacy organization that popped up in response to California's Proposition 8.

"All transkids deserve to be happy. Get to know us; you'll love us!" - Author and activist Jazz Jennings for #NOH8 pic.twitter.com/L1QgU3qiVu
- NOH8 Campaign (@NOH8Campaign) March 15, 2015

As for Jazz, she said she has found confidence in her gender identity.

"I wouldn't change anything about myself," she said in a recent YouTube video. "Not because I'm being cocky or anything, but because this is who I am and I'm proud of who I am. This is me, and I'm transgender, and that's okay. It makes me a stronger person, a more confident person, and it just makes me myself."

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How a transgender teen became a nationally known activist

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"I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body." Those words come from 14-year-old Jazz Jennings, a transgender teen who has announced that she will open up about her day-to-day troubles and triumphs in dating, sleepovers and high school this summer in a new reality show on the cable TV network TLC called "All That Jazz."

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I selected Jazz Jennings because she is just so powerful for everything shes done. She has inspired so many people to help them in there transgender journey. I love how she just specifies in this absolutely beautiful and i know for a fact very difficult journey for people. What made her the most unique is that she knew at the age of 2 years old that she wasnt a male. I know it can be difficult because not many people are understanding of transgenders. But Jazz tries to help she also has a youtube channel where she tries to help parents in the process of there kids becoming transgender.

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How Jazz Jennings Changed the World for Trans Youth Simply by Being Herself

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In 2007, six-year-old Jazz Jennings went on national television to tell Barbara Walters the same thing she’d been telling her parents, siblings and anyone else who would listen: She was, despite he…

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Jazz Jennings was honored by GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday April 2, 2016. For her outstanding reality show I Am Jazz. She gives an emotional speech thanking her family, in her speech she said "All people deserve to have a family like my family" she said with her mother by her side. Jazz Jennings also wrote a book called "I Am Jazz" and won an award in Rainbow Project Book List in 2015. Based on the life of Jazz Jennings this picture book for kids talks about her experiences growing up as a transgender kid. As well as teaching kids how theres people who were born girls but know theyre boys as well as people who were born boys but then convert into girls.

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Caitlyn Jenner, Jazz Jennings Win GLAAD Awards (Video)

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It was a big night for transgender representation at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles.

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When Jazz Jennings was able to form coherent thoughts is exactly when she knew she was a girl. When her mom found out she was pregnant she knew it was going to be a girl. As she began growing up her family thought her obsessive interest in girly things was just a nothing to important development phase. Jazz specifically remembers being a child and taking baths with her brothers and sister and would compare her genitals to theres and her penis felt so wrong. Shed wish she could just wipe it off and shed have a Gagina. Jennings specifically just feels feeling off in her body, this isnt who she was. Jazz would put on dressed and heels while being inside but when it came to going out her parents didnt allow her too. When she would go out her mom dressed her up in boy shorts and Jazz would cry, it made her feel ashamed and humiliated. Jazz remembers sleeping ans having a dream about a fairy using her wand to turn her penis into a vagina.

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Jazz Jennings: When I First Knew I Was Transgender

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"Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind."

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Jazz Jennings story is very simple she was born a male and at the age of 2 she knew she wasn't a boy she was a girl. Jazz Jenning has done so many things to help the LGBTQ+ youth. Jazz Jenning did a bunch of speaches around the country, co-wrote children's books, and became a Johnson and Johnson spokes modle. Jennings also led the New York Pride parade, launched her own TLC reality show called "I Am Jazz". Once Jazz and Barbara Walters had an interview, this interview helped parents with there own trans children help them better understand and help them. Since then, trans visibility abd representation has undergone a massive shift such as hollywood allowed trans people on screen. Shes also a co-founder of the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation which was founded in 2007 by her parents and it was created to help out transgender youth. In 2013 Jazz Jennings found Purple Rainbow Tails, which is a company in which she fashions rubber mermaid tails to raise money for transgender children. She also also has her own youtube channel.

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How Jazz Jennings Changed the World for Trans Youth Simply by Being Herself

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In 2007, six-year-old Jazz Jennings went on national television to tell Barbara Walters the same thing she’d been telling her parents, siblings and anyone else who would listen: She was, despite he…