JAZZ JENNINGS

I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.

I've always loved mermaids!

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

I definitely think it's important to share my process when it comes to the bottom surgery, because that information really isn't out there.

I define myself.

I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.

Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.

I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.

I think we should have unisex bathrooms.

A lot of insurance companies don't protect transgender people because they think it's medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and this is life-saving treatment.

A lot of people - boys - look at me differently. They think that if they date me, they are gay because they are dating another boy. In instances like this, I feel almost excluded, if that's the right word. I feel like I'm being put on a different shelf.

GLAAD has so much information and outlets about LGBTQ people and some of the issues we face and who we are.

With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.

I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

I don't really care what people think of me.

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.