The unnamed Douglas County second-grader, covered in the local and national news including Denver's KUSA-TV, is biologically a boy but has the support of parents and school alike in returning as a girl. The school is preparing for the change by building gender-neutral restrooms and making literature on gender identity available to parents of the child's classmates.

While Fox News' Neil Cavuto called the student a burden to other children and a threat the concept of childhood itself, gayzette columnist Benjamin Paige had a different perspective: The family are on the fast track to the Jerry Springer Show, and probably perverts. (Original text of the article deleted at community request.)

As child psychologist Jeffrey Gardere informed Cavuto, gender identity issues have been documented in children as young as four years old.

"As a public school system," said Douglas County Schools' Whei Wong recently to CNN, "our calling is to educate all kids no matter where they come from, what their background is; beliefs, values, it doesn't matter."

"We just want kids to be safe and happy, and be able to get an education," said TransYouth Family Allies executive director Kim Pearson, also the mother of a transgender son, during the same segment.

"Please accept our sincerest apologies in regards to the Homo-razzi article that was published in our March, 2008 issue," writes gayzette publisher Rich DeMarah in a press release. "The Homo-razzi feature that is meant to be humorous in nature, did anything but achieve ‘being funny.’ The article instead was hurtful, hateful, and distasteful, and should never have reached our printed pages."

Continues DeMarah: "We are, and will continue to be supporters of the GLBT community and do not think of our own as second class citizens, nor are we ignorant to the issues that members of our transgendered community face. With this being said, and as the publisher of the gayzette I do take full responsibility for the publications content and will act appropriately in addressing this issue."

gayzette will also work with the Gender Identity Center of Colorado to locate a monthly columnist to write on transgender issues, and has offered a free full-page ad to the GIC in its April edition.