That was disturbing news to Angelica Jadunandan, who moved to New York from Florida with her two young daughters three years ago. Her older daughter, who is eight, is transgender, and Angelica wanted to move them to a safe blue state—somewhere her family’s medical care would not be called into question. New York is a self-declared “sanctuary state” for trans people. It seemed like a good option.

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      Is there any way to get a copy of my original Lemmy post so I can see it? I want to look at my tone and such.

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        Yeah I found a copy of it, here are the relevant parts I was thinking of in this response:

        I don’t understand it right now, and I would even say I disagree.

        “Leaning towards being against”

        Does this stuff harm or hurt folks in the long run? Only time will tell.

        “Just asking questions”

        I wanted to be the same gender as the only parent that was there for me, and I think a lot of what we’re seeing here is similar to that.

        “pushed into transitioning”

        It’s quite curious that we’re trying to allow folks that can’t drive, drink, vote, join the military, or do any other number of adult activities alter their body like this

        Both “insinuating medical transition happens at 8 years old” and “trans kids are too stupid to know they’re trans and undergo HRT driven puberty, but cis kids can undergo natal puberty perfectly fine”. A 2 for 1 special, how fun.

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        Maybe it would be worth it to talk to someone that’s grown up, someone that went through this themselves. Someone that received the gender affirming care while they were young… although that might be hard to find for this very reason. … I just don’t think the experience I’m looking for has even happened in a person yet (due to the mentioned legal issues)

        Also this is stupid for a multitude of reasons and shows you didn’t do even a tiny bit of research beforehand

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          Oh sweet, thanks! I wanted it to be seen again too!

          And it even has the edits, perfect haha. Tyvm