2022 has, sadly, been a record-breaking year for anti-transgender bills filed in state legislatures.
Parents of transgender and non-binary kids share how they’re doing in the face of these attacks and what they need from allies
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it doesn’t seem that
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enough people are taking what’s
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happening to us seriously
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our entire family systems are in
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jeopardy of being torn apart because of
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bigotry and ignorance it’s creating
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a framework as if there’s two sides to
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this issue and that they’re both
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somehow valid that isn’t the case when
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you have every major medical association
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in this country
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saying that trans kids need affirmative
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care
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and they need to be supported by
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families and communities and then you
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have the voices which
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who absolutely are basing
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what they say not at all on fact not at
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all on science but on bigoted opinion i
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think what we are experiencing
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experiencing in this country is really a
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replication of a very well constructed
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playbook
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the reduction of people
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to an isolated
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thing whether it be their skin
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their language whatever it is
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have was perfected in this country
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before it was a country the scary thing
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is
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how fast it’s happening right now like i
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would have thought this would have taken
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us another 10 15 years to get to
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to the point of wanting to eliminate
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health care of wanting to control bodies
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with this kind of intensity and to take
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children away and to threaten that and
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here we are after
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seven years after bathrooms bathrooms
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are back
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and they’re not stopping there it’s
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quickly becoming apparent that there is
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no safe space for us and how is that
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tenable
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how are we supposed to just accept that
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wherever we go
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we
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are potentially going to be victimized
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like i’m trying to prepare my children
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to live in the world you know and i’m
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already dealing with intersectionality
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black child and trans child and now i
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have to think about okay what states
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what states can you live in
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what places can you go where you’ll be
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safe because i won’t be there if you
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have the capacity to have empathy
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and to see a whole human being
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you can help us
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protect our trans kids
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because that’s what we need my child is
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an only child and i will not
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live forever
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and there will be a time in his life
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when i won’t be here
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and i need him to be okay without me
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and i think everybody here feels that
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i will move mountains
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i will
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you tell me where to go and i’m gonna do
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it because i will not leave this earth
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without having tried everything i could
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to protect him and without trying to
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convince the rest of the world
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to protect and love him too
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you
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