A couple days ago on the NBC national news there were stories on transgender children that are actually happy stories showcasing how the two kids featured really came out of their shells and were overall happier after (socially) transitioning. (If they do more stories on transgender kids I'll update this accordingly if needed.)
The first story was about a 5 year old transboy named Jacob and the second one was about an 8 year old transgirl named Malisa. The videos aren't sad at all and are mainly about showing that an early transition can save trans children from experience years and years of dysphoria, bullying, depression, anxiety, and other preventable mental health issues and just bad situations in general. The families were both incredibly supportive and overall just very emotional over how much more comfortable their children were after being able to be who they truly were. As there are parents out there who will refuse to let their transgender children be who they really are and misgender them and some outright abuse them, showing that there are kids out there who are so much happier after transitioning is really important. I think it's also very important that transgender individuals are being talked about when they're happy and healthy and that they're not just only being talked about when there a transgender person commits suicide or a trans person is assaulted. It also gets the word out that being transgender isn't a bad thing. During Jacob's segment they had a doctor talking about socially transitioning trans children (since they're too young to physically transition) which is something that sounds very overwhelming. It was just presented very well and showed that trans kids can be like completely different kids if allowed to be and accepted as the gender they actually are.
Also, Malisa is congressman Mike Honda's granddaughter so having someone who is in support of transgender people in such a position.. it's just nice to know that there's someone on the side of such a misunderstood group in a high position.
And I'd heard about that! It's great your school (and hopefully the rest of the community you live in) is supportive and accepting of LGBTQIA+ students! Especially since it sends a good message to closeted students at your school that they wouldn't be ridiculed for not being straight and/or cis.
Unfortunately at one high school in Pennsylvania an anti-gay day was held the same day their school was also doing the Day of Silence and continued doing things a few days following though. The guys that participated wore flannel and wrote "anti-gay" on the back of their hands and while that's already infuriating they also apparently hung intimidating signs on LGBTQIA+ students's lockers. As bigoted as what they did already was it just makes it worse that they singled out LGBT+ students as outing someone is dangerous especially if that person is only out at school or to a couple friends. However, some students did hold like a protest against what the select few homophobic students did and made sure to show that while there is some intolerance at the school there is also support.
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Speaking of high school stuff though I saw two LGBT related "promposals"
This first I saw on twitter and the original tweet has almost 16k retweets and favorites in total
This one was posted on tumblr and currently has almost 70k notes!
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And if anyone cares Bruce Jenner did an interview recently and said he will be transitioning to be a transwomen later this summer if I'm not mistaken. He said he preferred he/him pronouns though and stated that the new name he chose won't be released to the public. I didn't watch the thing so I can't really summarize it other than just picking out the points of the article that stuck out to me. Fortunately it seems that his family is being supportive of his decision to transition.
