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From: banned@usa.usa
Molly Bolt wrote in
news:e0a3f91f-384c-454f-a2ec-31edf386d282n@googlegroups.com:
> No queers, transgender or other sexually confused weirdos are allowed
> to enter the USA. Kick them the fuck out.
TEXAS — As a 7-year-old, Adelyn Vigil believed death was the way to be
able to live as a girl.
Adelyn's nightly prayer to God was to become a bird to be able to fly,
then die and then be made into a girl.
“I was crying and I told her: ‘Oh, but mom, it’s going to take a long
time, because first I have to die as a boy and then as a bird and then
be a girl,” Adelyn, 14, told Noticias Telemundo about the conversation
with her mother years earlier.
“The only thing I could say without crying was: ‘You know you don’t have
to die,’" the trans teen's mother, Adamalis Vigil, said in an interview,
recalling the conversation. "I said, ‘If that’s what’s going to make you
happy, you can do that. You don’t have to die.’”
Adelyn usually speaks with a smile, except when she starts talking about
what makes her afraid: The estrogen hormone treatment she started a year
ago is running out and she was left without a doctor after Republican
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed state Senate Bill 14 at the beginning of
June. The law bans medical professionals from prescribing drugs to block
puberty, hormonal therapies and gender transition surgeries on minors
under 18.
The law “is going to be the toughest battle we’re going to face,”
Adelyn's mother said. The advice of a team of specialists and
specialized medical care “is what has kept my daughter alive,” she
added.
Adelyn is one of nearly 30,000 people ages 13 to 17 who identify as
transgender in Texas, according to data from the Williams Institute at
the University of California, UCLA. It’s the largest young transgender
population of the nearly 20 conservative states that have passed similar
laws in recent months.
Adelyn, who wants to be an attorney like Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon)
in "Legally Blonde" when she grows up, wants to move to Washington,
D.C., work in human rights and someday be a mom.
“It’s crazy what these legislators are trying to do, someone has to stop
them,” Adelyn said about the state bill.
At least 64 bills against trans people have been introduced in Texas and
four have passed, according to a count by Trans Legislation Tracker, an
advocacy group that tracks these pieces of legislation around the
country.
Those who promote and support laws banning gender-affirming care for
minors, including puberty blockers and hormones, believe they are too
young to make these kinds of decisions about their bodies and that the
care is too experimental.
Gender-affirming care is supported by major medical organizations, such
as the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics
and the American Psychological Association.
'I knew I was in the wrong body'
Adelyn spoke to Noticias Telemundo before her 15th birthday on July 24.
She was emotional when talking about her quinceañera party — a tradition
in Latino families when a young woman turns 15 — and she was excited
about her dress, which had crystals, sequins, a bow and a layer of
tulle. She bought it in Mexico, where her family is from.
According to Adamalis, the first signs regarding her child's gender
identity came early, when Adelyn was 3 years old. One day, Adamalis was
sorting clothes in her closet and Adelyn saw a fuchsia party dress with
crystals and asked her mom not to donate it. “When I grow up,” Adelyn
told her mom, “I’m going to be a woman and I’m going to wear it.”
Adamalis told the child, “It doesn’t work like that, when you are born
and you are a boy, you grow up and become a man," she said. "And when
you are born and you are a girl, you grow up and become a woman. It
doesn’t work any other way.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-trans-minors-families-fear-sta
te-bans-gender-treatment-rcna93836
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