This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sierra Leone is one of the worst places in the world to be a girl. In this West African country of about six million ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Some stories just break your heart. So it is with the behind-the-scenes story of the girl featured in this month’s ...

The group runs retreats to raise awareness and honor girls as wisdom keepers of the sacred feminine. This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Alexandra lives ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... boys and men are or should be masculine, and girls and women are or should be feminine. Not all cisgender people ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began ...