How To Support Your Trans Child, According to Experts and Trans Kids Themselves
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Whether your child is a transgender girl, a trans boy, nonbinary, or anything other than cisgender, we live during a particularly difficult time for supportive parents of trans kids.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, 40% of trans kids aged 13-17 live in states that have passed bans on gender-affirming care. Since states started enacting such bans in 2021, numerous families have uprooted their lives and moved to different states that protect access to such care — and some have even left the country altogether. That’s not even to mention the deleterious effects of anti-trans legislation and rhetoric on the mental health of trans kids. Read this important article here. And if you haven't already signed up for news from Them, do that here.
Them
Whether your child is a transgender girl, a trans boy, nonbinary, or anything other than cisgender, we live during a particularly difficult time for supportive parents of trans kids.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, 40% of trans kids aged 13-17 live in states that have passed bans on gender-affirming care. Since states started enacting such bans in 2021, numerous families have uprooted their lives and moved to different states that protect access to such care — and some have even left the country altogether. That’s not even to mention the deleterious effects of anti-trans legislation and rhetoric on the mental health of trans kids. Read this important article here. And if you haven't already signed up for news from Them, do that here.
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