It was 2019 when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Rand Paul weighed in on the James Younger case. A video of a 3-year-old James started circulating on social media, showing the child explaining to his father what his step-mommy does; putting him in dresses, buying him hairclips, and painting his nails. “I’m a girl,” he continually tells his biological father. In October of that year, a Texas jury ruled against Jeffrey Younger, who was trying to keep his 7-year-old son, James Younger, from being chemically castrated and transitioned into a girl named “Luna” by the boy’s non-biological mother.
We thought that was young, but as we recently reported, a mother told ABC News that her “assigned male at birth” child started to communicate being transgender “at the earliest moment that she actually had words and language.”
Some states are passing laws to prevent minors from gender assignment surgery, and according to MSNBC, that puts trans kids at ground zero is the conservative culture war.
Trans kids have become ground zero in the conservative culture war. https://t.co/hO7IfoLSe9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 30, 2022
Katelyn Burns reports that she “was given the exclusive chance to sit in on the meeting in what can only be described as an increasingly desperate political moment for trans kids and their families.”
Jaime Jara, a 43-year-old mother of three, told me that some politicians in her home state of Florida have physically hidden from her and her 10-year-old daughter, Dempsey, when they tried to approach them to advocate against the state’s anti-trans bills. Jara was part of a group of parents and trans kids who gathered Monday outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services administrative building in Washington, D.C., just a stone’s throw from the Capitol. They had just met with one of the most powerful government officials in the country, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Xavier Becerra has already told Congress that he supports government funding of gender-affirming surgeries on minors.
— Chad Felix Greene 🇺🇲 (@chadfelixg) June 30, 2022
What’s a trans kid?
— Glasten (@GlastenSummer) June 30, 2022
No such thing.
— Steve Stank (@SteveStank11) June 30, 2022
If you think there is such a thing as a trans child you are truly warped.
— Western Sentry Journal (@SentryWestern) June 30, 2022
The concern is that trans awareness has turned into trans encouragement, and anti cis.
— Grand Moff Tarkin 🌑 (@realMoffTarkin) June 30, 2022
We need to get to the kids early before “cisnormative” values become ingrained.
Darling it ain't the children
It's the teachers perpetuating this s*** in class to other children who are not trans— ANJI USA PASSION🇺🇲🙏😘 (@usa_anji) June 30, 2022
I can't wait until states can outlaw gender altering procedures on minor children.
— Wild Hair (@WildHair10) June 30, 2022
Gender dysphoria by proxy
— @RobinJosephette (@RobinJosephette) June 30, 2022
Liberals use children as shields to advance their disturbing sexual practices.
There I fixed the lede. You're welcome ☺️
— Osito (@driver6_f1) June 30, 2022
Liberals: 18 is too young to purchase a gun
Also liberals: 8 is old enough to know that you want to permanently cut off your penis or breasts.— TheCatsMeow (@LB22222222) June 30, 2022
Here’s a photo from Beccera’s meeting with those transgender kids, including Dempsey:
Today, I met with transgender youth & their families to discuss how HHS can best support them. I’m grateful to these children & their families for coming and sharing their stories.
I’ll quote my new friend, Dempsey from FL: "You deserve to be you. Kids should be themselves." pic.twitter.com/6q5462Zxie
— Secretary Xavier Becerra (@SecBecerra) June 27, 2022
And we were grateful to all of the young people who shared their stories on Detrans Awareness Day.
Related:
House Democrats introduce Transgender Bill of Rights to expand access to gender-affirming care https://t.co/EK3TM7nhFu
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 30, 2022
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