Trans and nonbinary youth witnesses and their family members testifying before the hearing in Texas said that they feel both attacked by the federal government and used as “political pawns.”
The impact is clear.by the Trevor Project found that 86 percent of trans and nonbinary youth say “recent debates around anti-trans bills” has negatively impacted their mental health in the last year. Another 45 percent said they were cyber-bulled as a result of the very “debates” in which their own lives are most at stake.
Gloria Valadez, a young person who testified before the committee, said her brother nearly committed suicide after reading headlines about the Texas crackdown on trans youth and their families. Parents told the lawmakers that passing the legislation would force their families to leave the state. “There is nothing wrong with loving and supporting your children for being LGBTQ or transgender, and the only reason you would think that is [is that] you think trans people shouldn’t exist,” Pérez said. “But we do, and we have throughout history, and we will continue to do so.”and protests across the country.
“People should be allowed private medical decisions between themselves and their parents and their doctors, and that should be the end of it,” Pérez said.is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own. People print out our articles and send them to family members in prison — we receive letters from behind bars regularly thanking us for our coverage.
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