Welcome to our audio cast of the Frontline program Growing Up Trans, which aired on June 30th

and is available for online viewing anytime at Frontline.org.

The film by Nierri Novaski and Karen O'Connor has been adapted for audio by radio producers

John B. Wynn and Louis Olkowski and narrated by producer director Nierri Novaski.

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Music

Leah Heggardy is nine.

She likes to body, sir, Fanna Bookieboy.

I am trans-gender.

I was born male and identified as female.

But I like to say that I'm a girl sticking a boy's body.

I transitioned when I was six or seven to more of a girl.

And now I'm almost completely female.

The second grade was the last year of Liam.

And this year I changed my name officially.

So I've changed my name, my clothes, my room, and my pronouns.

And that's really all you need except for the fifth one that I still need.

Surgery and medicine.

Tell me look like a girl.

Just a generation ago, it was adults, not children who changed genders.

Usually late in life and often in the shadows.

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