At just 14-years-old, Florida teen Jazz Jennings continues to do more for transgender advocacy than most.

I Am Jazz

Born male but first identifying as female from the age of two, the precocious eighth-grader was recently named one of TIME magazines 25 most-influential teenagers, alongside Taliban victim and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai.
Jazz has now released I Am Jazz, the first book that is aimed at helping children understand exactly what it means to be transgender, whether they are struggling with their identity or not.

‘People see black and white, they don’t see the rainbow in the world, and that’s really closed-minded,’ Jazz said in a new interview with Katie Couric for Yahoo!.

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