It's a sign of these groundbreaking new times that not only is there a whole show dedicated to a transgender woman, but that transgender woman is only 17 years old. Taboos and prejudice are breaking down everywhere, and kids who have any kind of gender confusion no longer have to suffer for years before coming out. Now they have their very own hero.
Both Jazz and Jennings are pseudonyms. Nobody knows her birth name, only that she was born on the 6th of October, 2000 and told her family that she identified as a female from the very first moment she could speak. By 2007 she was already a YouTube sensation and one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender, which is a stunning achievement.