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 ...

Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes.

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 ...