Trans young people speak out to @TimTeeman about the onslaught of discrimination they are facing as the focus of many of the discriminatory health and sports bills working their way through state legislatures trib.al/5VrMpjR
Madi, 13, from North Carolina where doctors would be banned from providing gender-affirming care to trans youth under 21, says: “It feels horrible being threatened with who I am, because without these things I might not be here today.” bit.ly/3tpudLi
Ash, 16, told @TimTeeman: “It’s been a nightmare of mine for a couple of years that some legislation would be passed that would mean I could not access my hormones. I was deeply, terribly depressed and suicidal before I was on testosterone.” bit.ly/3tpudLi
Willow Breshears, an 18-year-old Arkansas activist, says she has received several calls from younger trans people who are contemplating taking their own lives should the anti-trans legislation there pass. bit.ly/3tpudLi
I would ask them to see my humanity,” Justin Sykes said of his message to legislators, “and to remember that when making these bills that they affect real people…They won’t get rid of trans people. We will be here, we will always be here.” bit.ly/3tpudLi
The young trans people are determined to fight.

“Trans is a part of me, so you are not going to strip that out of me and try and make me someone I am not. I will always be a girl,” says Madi.

Read more of @TimTeeman’s story here: bit.ly/3tpudLi

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