Ciera Taylor was 14 when she told her parents she was born in the wrong body and wanted to live as a girl. Now aged 16, she tells BBC News how her family and schoolfriends have coped with her. Programme website: Vinnessa goes into hospital to have her gender confirmation operation. Her surgeon Marci Bowers is the first transgender woman to have performed the procedure. When Massachusetts twins Caleb and Emmie Smith were born in 1998, it was hard to tell them apart. At 17 Emmie came out as transgender, and recently she underwent gender-confirmation surgery..

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