'It feels very scary, but I have a supportive community. It's super-annoying that all these lawmakers are just bullying me, and other trans and non-binary kids. It's really sad,' said Libby Gonzales
, including more health-care bans, in Republican-controlled state legislatures. In Texas, advocates and parents say the issue has re-emerged this week because Abbott and Paxton are facing challenging primaries on March 1, and are using trans kids as political weapons to position themselves further right than their challengers.
In 2016, Briggle said she and her husband had invited Paxton and his wife to supper. Briggle said she had wanted Paxton, prior to the introduction of bathroom bills a year later, to see what a trans-inclusive family looked like. “I asked him if he could stop the bad, anti-trans bills we could see coming. He looked me in the eyes and said, ‘I don’t make the laws.
When Briggle’s children were out of the room, brushing their teeth and putting on their pajamas, Paxton said of Briggle’s trans son: “He seems like a really good kid.” Today, Briggle notes that he used her son’s proper pronouns. “And now this. Has he forgotten about that dinner? Doesn’t he care? Fuck him.”It’s clear, through their actions and words, they would rather see dead kids than happy, supported, thriving trans children. It makes me sick to my stomach.
passed last year,” Schelling told The Daily Beast. “When we say trans people are dying, that this is killing our children, I am not kidding. This is a reality.””Briggle said friends living elsewhere in the country had offered her family a safe place to live. “I keep telling them we’re fine, and that Paxton and Abbott are causing unnecessary hysteria to win their elections. I want to say to them, ‘Thank you. I know you’re saying this for the best reasons.
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