Jacob’s Journey: Life as a Transgender 5-Year-Old

Jacob is a happy, healthy, well-adjusted pre-schooler. He has two sisters — one older and one younger.

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But it wasn’t always this way. In the beginning, his parents Mimi and Joe were raising three daughters.

NBC’s National Correspondent Kate Snow will have more on Jacob’s story tonight on Nightly News, Part One of a special series on transgender kids.

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When Jacob was born, his name was Mia. But by the time he was two, he was telling his parents, “I’m a boy.”

Last year, when he was four, they made a decision: to let him live as he has always identified — as a boy.

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