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I spoke at Houston’s Good Trouble rally last week, and someone approached me afterwards for an interview. I thought he was with the organizers, and he asked good and informed questions about how Texas trans kids can access health care. Everything I said in the interview was public knowledge, and I’m always pretty careful about how I talk about gender-affirming care for adolescents. AND - I woke up the next morning to find that this guy was actually a reporter from a Texas right-wing media...
The Trans Youth Emergency Project of the Campaign for Southern Equality will host an online youth and parent support session on July 20 at 6:30pm ET led by mothasistah™ of blaq noyz, LLC and yours truly. This free session will be 1 hour and 30 minutes on Zoom and will not be recorded to protect confidentiality. Registration is required, and requests are approved manually. Click the button below to register! Register here The Trans Youth Emergency Project helps families navigate the complex...
A recent conversation thread in the Parents of Trans Youth Community asked: "What do you wish you knew when your transgender kid first came out to you?" Hindsight is always 20/20. Members' missteps came mostly from their lack of information or not yet finding the support of community. But we all do the best we can with the information we have at the time. We can't go back in time, but it's ok to acknowledge your mistakes and even apologize to your kid: "Hey, I said X to you that one time, and...