Jennings, Jazz (2000-…), is an American transgender activist. The term transgender describes individuals whose identity or self-expression does not match their assigned gender. Jennings became one of the youngest people to be documented as transgender. She has received several awards for her activism in support of transgender people. 
Jennings was born on Oct. 6, 2000, in southern Florida. She was designated male at birth and given the name Jaron. When she was 2 years old, Jennings showed signs of feeling that she was a girl. One year later, she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person’s biological or assigned gender does not match the gender with which the person identifies. Jennings has identified as female since she was 5 years old. She became famous in 2007 after being interviewed by the American journalist Barbara Walters on the television news program “20/20.”
Jennings became a popular presence on social media and on the video-sharing website YouTube. She has also starred in the reality television series “I Am Jazz,” which began in 2015. The series follows Jennings’s experiences as a transgender youth, including her gender confirmation surgery in 2018. This kind of surgery alters a person’s physical characteristics to match the person’s gender identity.
In 2007, Jennings and her parents established the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation to support and provide assistance for transgender youths. Jennings also wrote the memoir Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen (2016).
