“The Dr. Oz Show” Raises the Bar for Transgender Talk Show Coverage -February 18, 2010 by Anna Wipfler, GLAAD's Transgender Advocacy Fellow
… episode featuring transgender children and their families aired, exhibiting some of the best nationally televised conversations about gender identity, …
Born With the Wrong Body - By ALAN B. GOLDBERG – April 25, 2007 – abcNEWS/20/20
This past Christmas, Riley Grant received a present that can be described as bittersweet -- a video game that allowed her to morph a digital body into anything she wanted. Almost immediately, Riley, a 10-year-old transgender girl who is biologically a boy, adopted a virtual female persona. If only life were so easy, that she could punch a button and turn into a girl.
"She has a birth defect, and we call it that. I can't think of a worse birth defect, as a woman to have, than to have a penis," Riley's mother, Stephanie, told Barbara Walters. "She talks about the day she'll have a baby. That's not in her future. But she sees herself as growing up to be a woman." Read more - Born With the Wrong Body – abcNEWS/20/20
