Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of National Geographic. Since we shared photos of ...

National Geographic is featuring a transgender person on its cover for the first time in the magazine's storied history. Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old trans girl from Missouri, will grace a ...

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...