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'Inside Out: Portraits Of Cross-Gender Children' Beautifully Documents Transgender Kids
For the past 12 years, Dutch photographer Sarah Wong has documented the lives and experiences of a group of children who have transitioned – or are in the process of transitioning – to live as their authentic selves.
Wong captured these images of children involved with VU University in Amsterdam, where they engaged in a type of therapy that aimed to support children who experience gender dysphoria. A number of these kids took or have taken puberty blockers in order to delay the effects of puberty until they decide how they want to live their lives. However, the photos were taken at the kids' homes, schools, ballet classes – spaces where they felt most comfortable.
Wong shared the images with the world through a book called Inside Out: Portraits Of Cross-Gender Children, published in 2011. A medical research journalist from the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper, Ellen de Visser, wrote the book's text.
The Huffington Post chatted with Wong this week about the children in these photos, as well as her own experiences documenting the lives of these kids.
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Ballet Girl, 2005
Ballet Girl, 2010
Boy with swimming suit, 2009
Boy with boxing trainer, 2010
"At the end we’re all the same – souls who want to be happy and live compassionately."
Girl, 2003
Boy, 2007
Butterfly tableau, 2010
Girl, 2015
Girl, 2003
Girl, 2009
Princess on white horse, 2012
Butterfly tableau, 2010