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Transgender

• 11-year-old Texas trans activist & family flee state because it’s “not safe for trans kids”

“My mom sold our home & everything that doesn’t fit in our car because the state I was born in is not safe for trans kids. Anyways… happy Independence Day to everyone who gets to celebrate that.”
(Greg Owen, 2022, LGBTQ Nation, July 11, 2022 )

• High school students get threatened with machine gun while rallying for bullied trans classmate

Students at a Washington state high school Monday staged a walk-out in solidarity with a trans student, who was beaten in the school’s hallways the week before.
(Tammy Plunkett, LGBTQ Nation, June 14, 2022 )

• This was what happened when I was called into the principal’s office when my child said he is trans

Over the phone, Ms. Z said she’d like to meet to discuss some things my child had disclosed at school "just to get ahead of any potential problems in the future.”
(Tammy Plunkett, LGBTQ Nation, June 10, 2022 )

• A third of trans kids risk losing gender-affirming care under swathe of cruel bills, study finds

An estimated 58,200 trans youth are at risk of losing access to gender-affirming healthcare as a direct result of Republican-led attempts to ban treatments.
(Maggie Baska, Pink News, March 22, 2022 )

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• Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' Bill Would Be Devastating For Kids Like My 6-Year-Old Trans Son

How can a first grader understand gender? I don’t know that they really do ― but isn’t that the whole point? Maxim instinctively knew he was a boy and not a girl. He didn’t have to understand the construct of it because it was what he felt ― it’s just who he knows he is.
(Judith Schmidt,The Huffpost, US, March 2, 2022 )

• Texas Gov. declares trans medical care child abuse & orders investigations of supportive parents

A bill to put supportive parents of trans kids in jail failed. Now the Republican governor and attorney general are trying to declare them child abusers themselves.
(Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, US, February 23, 2022 )

Follow up

• Texas judge halts Republicans’ plans to investigate families of trans children for “child abuse”

On Wednesday, Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted a temporary restraining order that will prevent Republican Governor Greg Abbott from using the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to conduct “child abuse” investigations against parents who provide gender-affirming medical care to their trans kids.
(LGBTQ Nation, US, March 3, 2022 )