Thank you, Jake Thomas and The Mercury! One small correction: We began offering counseling services in 2010, not 2011.

You guys rock!

Jenn Burleton
Executive Director
TransActive Education & Advocacy

What a great organization! Their website says they have a fundraiser coming up on Dec 8 at Refuge PDX. I'll be there.

Jenn, that was an editing error. We'll be correcting the story and noting it. We regret the mistake.

This "transitioning" that is spoken of -- I should hope we are not talking surgery on children, who tend to be fickle.

Frankieb - I'm not an expert, but I believe gender reassignment surgery for children is pretty much unheard of. For young children (under 10), the "transition" that people speak of is simply to let the children dress and present themselves as the gender that they wish to. For adolescents, hormone therapy to (reversibly) block the progress of adolescence is controversial, but I believe becoming more common. I'm not sure when surgery really becomes an option, but I suspect that it's not on offer until young adulthood.