stories like this give the lie to the idea that the right is interested in protecting these children. per their own narrative, this girl is a victim of “gender ideology” or whatever. but the reaction from the right is always hostility, ostracization and violence.
I can’t even imagine. My oldest, who is also autistic took years…years! of detective work & therapy to be able to verbalize their thoughts and feelings about how they viewed themselves and how they felt trapped in their own body
She’d be dead if she wasn’t able to become who she was on the inside.
“We’re doing this out of love” is what gets trotted out when polite company accidentally overhears. What they say, and do, when they think we’re not around speaks louder.
Conservatives are incredibly resentful that this sort of treatment isn't the status quo for every single trans child who doesn't hide our kill themselves.
This is literally sickening. Desantis and these other foul excuses for humans should be made to strip and hosed down in public. Destroying a kid's life in the service of...what exactly?? Who does this benefit? So foul
this situation is heart breaking, and of course it happens in Broward, one of the states bluest counties, where our school board has been under attack by Desantis and his cronies, using every excuse he can to replace elected school board members with chuds he’s appointed.
One day, sadly farther out than I would like, I hope the victims of these ghoulish laws and ideology are able to seek out and claim damages from those awful awful people and movements. I personally hope they go bankrupt, and their deeds and names are never allowed to be forgotten for their evil...
imagine waking up every day knowing that your job is investigating anonymous tips about children's genitals on behalf of the state, then imagine thinking you're the good guy
“I didn’t really have a problem with it because I didn’t think she was a threat or anything to anyone else,” one girl told investigators.
It got to be so confusing to classmates, who just accept and go on with life, why these fascists want to destroy trans people.
making it clear that enforcing normalcy is actually way more important to them than caring about children as they traumatize them into killing themselves
Something that Scott Travis at the Sun-Sentinel has hinted at, but I haven't seen explicitly addressed:
•The family lost their court decision on 11/6
•Supt. Licata said "a constituent who wanted to remain anonymous" alerted him on 11/20
•The state board said they found out on 11/28, but
#Wilhoit'sLaw Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
So disturbing. Their lives are hard enough. Most of these kids need sports and inclusion as coping skills. Frickin’ let them play. They need validation, love and acceptance from community -
not just their parents.
I didn’t read too many of the comments, no one needs that, but the ones I saw were all variations on “sooo empathetic but a good mother would betray her beloved daughter rather than ever committing a paperwork error”. Somehow made me even more angry than I was expecting.
born male always a male you can mutilate yourself but in the end your genes do not lie if all that was found was dna you would still be what your dna at birth was not only that you deceive others in a relationship when you fail to tell them when you first meet them you were another sex at birth
simply unless they were in an accident to transition a minor to another gender is child abuse children change there minds about what they want when they grow up what is popular is what they want so they can be popular and liked let them grow up and then choose
it's very confusing how women's sports became the rallying cry. the same assholes do nothing but make fun of women's sports. It seems like in the whole time she was on the team nothing bad happened. just insane right wing bullshit
Nobody ever actually does think of the children. The real children, that is, not the idealized ones in their mind who always act exactly as they think children are supposed to act.