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Robin Hammond

KANSAS CITY, Missouri New Zealand-born photographer Robin Hammond, who has won recognition for his images of LGBTQ people around the world, met Avery Jackson while on assignment for National Geographic’s January 2017 issue, “Gender Revolution.” Hammond was photographing nine-year-olds, boys and girls, in eight countries. This nine-year-old made a special impression: Avery spent her first four years as a boy, but with the support of her family in Kansas City, Missouri, began living in 2012 as a transgender girl. The editors chose her picture for the subscribers’ edition cover—a decision that Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg says left readers “excited, horrified, concerned, and grateful.” As far as Hammond is concerned, it’s the ongoing gratitude that most resonates; teachers and young people have thanked him for helping open important conversations. “She oozed confidence and energy,” he says of Avery. “Her photo says: ‘I’m proud. I’m happy. I’m a normal little girl.’ ”

Robert Waldron (left), 79, with his husband, Vernon May, 79, was interviewed for a story about the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising: “The LGBT community has come a very, very long way.“

"In life things tend to show you not your wants but your needs. And, transitioning into Malaysia...has opened up a world of acceptance for me. Because now I am comfortable, and I've never been this comfortable in my life."

Using hand tools and draft animals, a family harvests wheat in Ethiopia's famine-prone highlands.

The four letters of the genetic code —A, C, G, and T—are projected onto Ryan Lingarmillar, a Ugandan. DNA reveals what skin colour obscures: We all have African ancestors.

Marcia (left) and Millie Biggs, both 11, say people are shocked to learn that they’re fraternal twins. Marcia looks more like their mother, who’s English born, and Millie looks more like their father, who’s of Jamaican descent.

Michael Biggs sees a clear family resemblance in his twin daughters, Marcia (left) and Millie: “They both have my nose.”

Birmingham, England, residents Marcia (left) and Milie Biggs, both 11, say people are shocked to learn that they're fraternal twins. Marcia looks more like their mother, who's English, and Millie looks more like their father, who's of Jamaican descent.

"The best thing about being a girl is, now I don't have to pretend to be a boy." – Avery Jackson, Kansas City, Missouri. This photo was originally published in, "In Their Words: How Children Are Affected by Gender Issues," in January 2017.