Jaclyn on 'I Am Jazz' has seemed on several seasons of the TLC sequence. Learn all about the transgender lady, who is among Jazz's close friends.
Season 8 of I Am Jazz has proven audiences that Jazz Jennings' existence post-transition is just as riveting and drama-filled as her lifestyles growing up. Although Jazz completed her first year at Harvard and is house for the summer time, she's nonetheless dealing with ongoing psychological health demanding situations — while on the similar time checking out the relationship waters, saying her independence from her parents, and navigating life as a young, transgender lady.
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So now, Jazz is using her visibility to help a few of her buddies who are going via transitions of their own. Among the friends featured on TLC's I Am Jazz is Jaclyn.
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Who is Jaclyn on 'I Am Jazz'?
In Season 6, Episode 3, "Born This Way," Jazz presented viewers to her friend Jaclyn, who wanted to have top surgery however had to contend with her unsupportive family.
On a go back and forth to Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, Jazz met up along with her buddies, Noelle and Jaclyn. "[Jaclyn] was telling me that the last time she was here, she was still a little boy," Noelle says to Jazz, who also says she hasn't been to the butterfly park in years.
While everyone used to be having a good time looking at and petting the insects, the conversation quickly shifted to the extra sober issue of insurance coverage — specifically the way that insurance would not duvet the $25,000 price of Noelle's gender-affirming surgical operation.
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About her own enjoy transitioning, Jaclyn candidly shared that "taking the hormones has not worked in the way that I would have liked it to, like, my chest isn't where it's supposed to be." She provides that her gender dysphoria "has been pretty bad."
"It's gotten to the point where I don't want to go to work, I don't want to get out of bed, I don't want to do anything. I just want to stay in bed and wait until I blossom into a female," Jaclyn admitted.
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And while she's just lately been authorized for most sensible surgery, Jaclyn told her pals that her "grandma is trying to hold [her] back," adding that "there's still a part of her that wishes [Jaclyn] were still her grandson."
"I just really want my grandma to accept me for who I am," Jaclyn defined, announcing that she loves her grandmother a lot and does not need her upcoming surgical operation to affect their shut dating.
Jazz and her mother met with Jaclyn and her grandmother.
Jazz and truthfully the whole Jennings circle of relatives have made it their undertaking to champion and advocate for trans youth around the nation. So when Jeanette heard that Jaclyn used to be having a troublesome time getting her grandma on board together with her transition, she kindly offered to head meet with Jaclyn's mom and grandmother.
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"I really feel that it's important to meet with Heather because when you have a child with gender dysphoria, it's heartbreaking," Jeanette mentioned at the episode. "Too many children are lost to gender dysphoria because they hate themselves so much."
Heather, Jaclyn's mother, explains that her mother, Nora, is having a large number of hassle coming to phrases with Jaclyn's decision to transition.
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"I need my mom to understand that, number one, it's not a phase, number two, your feelings are valid, but three, my daughter's wholeness is ... I care about that a little bit more than trying to validate someone else's feelings," Heather tells Jeanette. "And I want my mom to put her opinion down for a second."
When Jeanette, Jazz, Jaclyn, and Heather meet with Jaclyn's grandmother, Nora tries to explain to the group where she's coming from. Her view is that no one likes their bodies right through youth and that her granddaughter ought to attend until she's an 18-year-old adult to get the life-altering surgery.
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"It's just kind of hard to wait when you have this trapped feeling," Jaclyn explains to her grandmother, who is having trouble accepting views that fluctuate from her own. Meanwhile, Jazz is so pissed off that Nora isn't taking note of her granddaughter, she has to excuse herself from the dialog altogether.
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Jaclyn has also been featured in Season 8 of 'I Am Jazz.'
Fast-forward to Season 8 of the TLC sequence, and Jazz is home for the summer season from Harvard. The first episodes noticed Jazz attend a seashore celebration with Jaclyn and then go on a lunch date with Jaclyn and any other trans friend, Mya.
On their ride to clutch smoothies and lunch, the women mentioned breast implants because Jaclyn was finally making ready to go through breast augmentation since she had turned 18.
Hopefully, everything went well with Jaclyn's breast augmentation — and optimistically, we get to peer even more of her and Jazz supporting each different this season!
Catch new episodes of I Am Jazz on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EST on TLC and on Discovery Plus.
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