7-year-old caught in high-profile custody battle exposes additional gaps in trans rights and protections.
Rachel Gonzales knows her family looks typical, but where they live in Texas, she says they are a target.
The central issue of the case asks, at what age should a child be allowed to identify as not their birth gender? “I’m not trying to cross dress my son and mislead him into thinking he’s a girl and I’m not pushing my son towards medical transition,” Younger told “Lifesite.” “This is my son’s life and I’m not backing down, and I was not surprised at all that Americans stood up for my son.”But Judge Kim Cooks imposed a gag order on both parents. She overturned the verdict, instead ruling the former couple should share custody.“She receives at least 10 phone calls an hour,” Gonzales said.
Dr. Mary Romano, a pediatrician and an associate professor of adolescent medicine at Vanderbilt University’s Children’s Hospital, said a grade school child would undergo what’s called a social transition. A medical transition comes later and only if the child choses, she added. Chase Strangio, a deputy director who works on transgender justice issues for the ACLU believes the high rates of suicide and suicidal ideation among trans youth are not “because there's something wrong with being transgender -- It's because we live in a world that prevents transgender people from being who they are. And we push people to the point where they feel they cannot live at all.”
“The honest truth was that he felt more comfortable going in the boys room, but he’d go in the boys room and people who knew him as a girl, [and] would send him to the girls room.” “He said he would – he said he’d remember,” Amber Briggle said, adding that she thought Paxton understood their family’s position.
The pressure from local officials is not letting up either. GOP lawmakers in three states -- Georgia, Kentucky and Texas -- are proposing legislation banning trans-related health care like puberty blockers, or hormone treatment, to anyone under the age of 18 -- in some cases, making it a felony.
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