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Transgender girl aged eleven dons princess gown to become youngest grand marshal of Orlando Pride parade
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659073/Trans-11-dempsey-jara-orlando-pride.html
11:33 EDT, 22 October 2023
Dempsey Jara, 11, soaked up the applause as thousands of people lined the streets of the Florida city
Schoolteacher mother Jaime says Dempsey identified as a girl from 18-months
Family from Long Island, New York, insist she is 'living her best life'
An 11-year-old transgender girl is 'living her best life' her mother insisted as the pair soaked up the applause at Orlando's Come Out With Pride Festival on Saturday.
Dempsey Jara became the youngest grand marshal in the event's history as she paraded in an open top car through the streets of the Florida city at one of the world's biggest Pride events.
Wearing pink heart-shaped sunglasses and a floral gown, she blew kisses to the crowd while clutching a puppy wrapped in blue bow, as her parents beamed in the back seat.
'She's just always gravitated toward girl things, girls' toys,' schoolteacher mom Jaime Jara, 45, told the Orlando Sentinel.
'She'd say, 'I'm a girl in my heart and my brain'. She's been on this journey since she was five and she's living her best life.'
Florida has pushed back on the trans movement under Governor Rod DeSantis who has banned gender-affirming care for children and branded sex change operations 'mutilation'.
'I mean they're trying to do sex change operations on minors, giving them puberty blockers and doing things that are irreversible to them,' the Republican governor said last year.
The state has also banned school lessons about gender identity or sexual orientation for children in younger grades, through the so-called the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
But an estimated 200,000 people turned out to the Orlando event and Dempsey who arrived from her home in Long Island, New York, insisted she would continue 'standing tall in my identity'.
'Being transgender is not about a choice,' she told reporters.
'It's about being true to myself. It's about embracing who I am even when the world tries to tell me otherwise.
'It's about standing tall in my identity even when it's really hard.'
Democrat politicians joined the parade including Florida representative Maxwell Frost who sang and danced on one of the carnival floats.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659073/Trans-11-dempsey-jara-orlando-pride.html
11:33 EDT, 22 October 2023
Dempsey Jara, 11, soaked up the applause as thousands of people lined the streets of the Florida city
Schoolteacher mother Jaime says Dempsey identified as a girl from 18-months
Family from Long Island, New York, insist she is 'living her best life'
An 11-year-old transgender girl is 'living her best life' her mother insisted as the pair soaked up the applause at Orlando's Come Out With Pride Festival on Saturday.
Dempsey Jara became the youngest grand marshal in the event's history as she paraded in an open top car through the streets of the Florida city at one of the world's biggest Pride events.
Wearing pink heart-shaped sunglasses and a floral gown, she blew kisses to the crowd while clutching a puppy wrapped in blue bow, as her parents beamed in the back seat.
'She's just always gravitated toward girl things, girls' toys,' schoolteacher mom Jaime Jara, 45, told the Orlando Sentinel.
'She'd say, 'I'm a girl in my heart and my brain'. She's been on this journey since she was five and she's living her best life.'

Florida has pushed back on the trans movement under Governor Rod DeSantis who has banned gender-affirming care for children and branded sex change operations 'mutilation'.
'I mean they're trying to do sex change operations on minors, giving them puberty blockers and doing things that are irreversible to them,' the Republican governor said last year.
The state has also banned school lessons about gender identity or sexual orientation for children in younger grades, through the so-called the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
But an estimated 200,000 people turned out to the Orlando event and Dempsey who arrived from her home in Long Island, New York, insisted she would continue 'standing tall in my identity'.
'Being transgender is not about a choice,' she told reporters.
'It's about being true to myself. It's about embracing who I am even when the world tries to tell me otherwise.
'It's about standing tall in my identity even when it's really hard.'
Democrat politicians joined the parade including Florida representative Maxwell Frost who sang and danced on one of the carnival floats.
