![]() ![]() ![]() As a result of the discrimination that Jazz was forced to endure, the USSF created a policy to include all transgender athletes who want to play soccer in the United States. After a long battle, the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) ordered her home state to lift the ban. From eight to eleven, Jazz was also banned from competing with her school’s girls’ soccer team by her state. For five years, she wasn’t allowed to use the girls’ restroom in her elementary school. ![]() Later that year, Jazz and her parents, Jeanette and Greg, founded the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation to provide resources to transgender youth and their families. In 2007, she appeared on national television with Barbara Walters and became one of the youngest transgender children to appear in media. At age six, Jazz and her family began to boldly speak out about her transgender identity. Since childhood, she has been a revolutionary force for change against conventions of gender expression and identity. Jazz Jennings was born on October 6, 2000. ![]()
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