Editor Note: This article includes mention of suicide.
My 11 -year -old loves sea creatures and anime series Gravity drops。 He loves staying with friends. He loves his sister in most cases. He was again born in a woman’s body.
E, E in the afternoon of the fourth grade. After 16 inches, I left the salon with a pint -sized justin beever. Dinner at dinner. He said, “Mama, I need to tell you: I am a trance. My synonymous is him/he, and I change my name.” I exhaled. Then E. I breathed for the first time in a few months. Since we live in New York, his father and I were not afraid of him. At least not too scary.
Thanks to supporting friends, mental health experts, and pediatrician, his journey was relatively smooth. That does not mean that he is not bullied. Or, our suburban neighbors have no doubt about the validity of his experience and our child care. Or you didn’t have to change to a school that was not treated like a lawsuit waiting for him to happen. However, these are hiccups compared to what trance children experience. According to TREVOR project46 % of transformers and non -binary young people seriously considered suicide in the past year, and 16 % tried. These numbers are even higher between young people with colored transformers and people living in unacceptable places.
As the 2024 elections intensified, it became impossible for children to ignore the strange central place occupied by the Republican rhetoric. advertisement -It rather than a combination of housing, immigration, and economy. Our continuous cultural wars are the latest wetellation of my son, my son, Dwane Wade, Gabriel Union, Charlize Seron, Marlon Wayans, and the children of the icons We made a scapegoat and target of an estimated 300,000 trance, including the 300,000 trance. , Yes, Elon Mask. It’s no wonder that the human rights campaign declared LGBTQ+American emergency.
Now, the bully is in the White House. And we are not surprised at the rapid increase in the anti -transformer presidential order issued after the day of the inauguration. At first, passport, social security, and Other programs. This may seem superficial, but it’s actually life and death. Trans and non -binary youth who change their legal name and gender marker Half of the possibility of attempt to commit suicide。 The second person painted the trance member of the army as “disgrace” and Take basic rights to them。 Third We prohibit care to affirm gender for people under the age of 19. Rebellant Recommendation All major US and international health agencies -a much obvious problem of survival. Fourth, the stage is set to make a crime of teachers and school managers who use the priority name of the transformer. Correct pronounTake a safe place to learn from them.
E. or other people like him know who you are, or think that it is brainwashed and delusional, there is both biological gender and gender in the spectrum. Whether it is recognized, or claim that the girl is a girl and a boy, I hope that we can agree to one thing, about 15,000 trance service members or them, we can agree to one. The government does not have a business that interferes with parental decisions. There was no further difference in the approach to raising and protecting children. Inspiring the United States for centuries for centuries was the ability to maintain so many ideology and opinions at once without collapsing. Falling into a rock step behind a single administration that persecuts a different perspective is harmful to all of us and do not enlarge our country.
If you meet E, you won’t think you’ll be examined under him Simpsons boxer. You will be too concentrated on his face. His face laughs constantly even in these miserable times. His laughter filling our homes and hearts. And his courage surprises us every day. If it was up to him, he revealed his full name printed on the same pride as he was on display while walking in a junior high school hall decorated with the color of the transformer. But protecting him is my job as a parent, and the world is too dangerous to abandon anonymity. Nevertheless, our family understands the issues, so I shared his story, not his name. I hope this will help you see our 11 -year -old children and all trance children.
E. is one of the lucky things. My husband and I saw this coming and did something within our control to protect him. In November, we changed his legal name and gender marker, updated his passport, modified his birth certificate, modified the scheduled surgery, and intense discomfort and psychological pain. To avoid, modified surgery to transplant a long -term adolescent blocker. Many states. But we are still facing significant uncertainty about your son’s health, safety, and future. I am a fearless leader who does not return to the battle for children, such as ACLU’s chase stringio, trance equality defenders Rodridogen Ratinen, journalist Erin Leader. It is supported by. Sarah McBlide, who has broken the barrier as the first public and transformer person who served in Congress. Needless to say, there are many other people, such as activists, storytellers, parents, and allies.
But at the same time, many beloved neighbors, friends, and families check how we and E. are doing it, and ask how they use it, despite the barrage of this presidential order. The fact that it is, reveals that it is revealed. Therefore, few people recognize that threats are no longer abstract. It is a crisis. We are all one millimeter away from losing the most basic civil rights. E. And other transformers are a canary of coal mine. As a granddaughter of a Jewish refugee who fled Germany in 1931, I feel that the Nazi cannot grasp power. Poetry of Rev. Martin Neumerer “They first came“It’s often a rule, but his advice is not true in my life, even if we abandon us even in our natural allies, the president will definitely succeed in erasing E. He aims for immigration and dissident, and burns his efforts to punish.
So reach out to the transformers of your life. Spread the words About adjusted efforts to eliminate them. Please call your representative。 We protest us. And if you are in a fire in these presidential orders as a teacher, school, hospital manager, doctor, or mental health expert, you will not recognize or comply with fear when you know what is right. Please go. If not now, when? We and our children rely on you.
Ali Moss (She/her) is a documentary film creator nominated for the Emmy Award twice, and now she turns her lenses themselves. She is working on her commitment to break the trauma cycle between generations. You can read the details of Ali’s writing on her substance. Like a moss。
If you are passionate about transgender rights, you GLAAD website Details of how to involve it.
Dial 988 in the United States and reach National suicide prevention lifeline。 The 988 lifeline can be used 24 hours a day. Your conversation is free and confidential. You can find other international suicide helplines Befrienders.org。 TREVOR project, It is 1-866-488-7386 to provide help and suicide prevention resources to LGBTQ youth.
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