… And so we are doing the right thing.”īut parents like Jamie and Susan – and medical researchers at several major national medical associations – assert that gender-affirming care is safe and effective. Bob Hall, a Republican who backs the bill, has said: “We protect children against lots of things. They say they weren’t sure how far the government would go to separate families like their own or affect Elsa’s access to care as she gets older.
Susan and her husband Brian, who asked that their last names not be used for safety reasons, decided the family needed to move out of Texas in light of the child abuse investigation threats. It was National Daughters Day, “and she said, ‘Can I be your daughter?’ – which made me cry.” “When she was 3, one day, she told me, ‘I'm a girl person,’” Susan said in an interview with ABC News. She had expressed that she was a girl from an early age and guided her parents through her gender journey – asking to wear dresses, change her name, and to be referred to as a “daughter” by her parents. Susan has a 7-year-old transgender daughter, Elsa, whose parents asked that she be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons, who they say may one day need such care.Įlsa's parents describe her as wise beyond her years.
When Texas officials announced their intentions to launch child abuse investigations involving people who provide gender-affirming care for their transgender children, Susan’s heart dropped.
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