Jazz Jennings has written I am Jazz for transgender children like herself

THIS 14-year-old has written the first picture book for transgender children and has been named one of the world’s most influential teens.

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THIS 14-year-old has written the first picture book for children about growing up transgender — an accomplishment that has seen her named one of the world’s most influential teens.

Florida teenager Jazz Jennings was born male but started identifying as a girl at the age of two.

She says that whenever her parents would tell her she was a good boy, she would correct them as say she was a good girl.

Jazz says her parents Greg and Jeanette decided to seek advice when she asked “Mummy, when’s the good fairy going to come with her magic wand and change, you know, my genitalia?”

Born a boy ... Jazz Jennings. Picture: Facebook.

Transitioning to a girl ... Jazz Jennings started the switch early. Picture: Facebook.

By the age of five she was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, or Gender Dysphoria, and started making the transition to living life as a female.

She started growing out her hair, wearing girls’ clothing and got her ears pierced.

She started taking blockers that prevented the growth of body hair and with oestrogen therapy her body started to grow breasts during puberty.

Jazz will have to wait until she is 18 to have gender reassignment surgery.

Helping others ... Jazz Jennings says she wrote her first book to try and help other transgender children. Picture: Facebook.

In her book, I am Jazz, which the teen says she wrote to try and help other transgender children, she explains that she has “a girl brain but a boy body.”

“This is called transgender. I was born this way!” she says.

Jazz says she gets emails all the time from other transgender kids who are confused about who they are.

My Family :) pic.twitter.com/wOdDw2VFKm

— Jazz Jennings (@JazzJennings_) June 29, 2014

“Some people even write that, without me, they would have killed themselves,” she told Yahoo! “One kid said that they were going to walk into a street full of cars, and they decided not to because they thought of Jazz.

“That shows me I’m doing the right thing by being here and I have to continue moving forward,” she said.

Activist ... Jazz Jennings says parents should support their children. Picture: Facebook.

She was recently named one of TIME magazine’s 25 most influential teenagers, alongside others like Malala Yousafzai.

Any money raised from the sale of her bookwill go to the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, which Jazz’s parents started in 2007 to support trans children.

Famous friends ... Jazz Jennings and Jennifer Lawrence. Picture: Facebook.