Jazz Jennings Research Paper

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Jazz Jennings Jazz Jennings was born on october 6 , 2000 and is 17 she was named Jared but her parents just went with Jazz . She lives in South Florida . But Jazz used to be homeschooled but now she goes to school in Florida . She has two twin brothers named Sandor & Griffin and her sister named Ari . Her mom is named Janet and her dad is named Greg . But the reason why Jazz was homeschooled was because she was diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria - this is a person that is a male but at the same time a female. When she was little she was a boy and her mom and dad dressed her up as one but as she got older she wanted to be a girl , so she started wearing girl close . She says her brothers and her sister are a big inspiration

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