Texas Targets Transgender Youth, A Family Decides to Move
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For Karen, staging her family’s
For Karen, staging her family’s Austin home to be sold felt like a series of small paper cuts.
Packing up her daughter Jessie’s things particularly stung. Karen boxed up stuffed animals and peeled posters off the walls, including one of Jessie’s favorites: it says “Trans Girls are Girls” in the blue, pink, and white colors of the trans pride flag. Jessie, 10, who is transgender, had seen the poster at a rally last summer with her mom while protesting the surge of anti-trans rights legislation in Texas. She loved it, so Karen and her husband Chris got it for her as a birthday present. “As soon as she walked in the door, I heard her shout, ‘Where’s my poster?’” Karen recalls. She worried Jessie might not understand why it had to come down, or think it was a judgment on her identity.
But it’s to protect that identity that Karen is rolling up the poster and moving her family out of Texas. Over 30 anti-LGBTQ bills, 13 of which would have specifically affected trans youth, were filed in Texas’ 2021 legislative session, according to a tally by the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas. One bill, banning trans youth from playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identity, went into effect in January 2022. Then in February, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the state’s family protective services agency to investigate parents who may have provided their trans children with gender-affirming care.
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Packing up her daughter Jessie’s things particularly stung. Karen boxed up stuffed animals and peeled posters off the walls, including one of Jessie’s favorites: it says “Trans Girls are Girls” in the blue, pink, and white colors of the trans pride flag. Jessie, 10, who is transgender, had seen the poster at a rally last summer with her mom while protesting the surge of anti-trans rights legislation in Texas. She loved it, so Karen and her husband Chris got it for her as a birthday present. “As soon as she walked in the door, I heard her shout, ‘Where’s my poster?’” Karen recalls. She worried Jessie might not understand why it had to come down, or think it was a judgment on her identity.
But it’s to protect that identity that Karen is rolling up the poster and moving her family out of Texas. Over 30 anti-LGBTQ bills, 13 of which would have specifically affected trans youth, were filed in Texas’ 2021 legislative session, according to a tally by the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas. One bill, banning trans youth from playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identity, went into effect in January 2022. Then in February, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the state’s family protective services agency to investigate parents who may have provided their trans children with gender-affirming care.
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