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Date: May 19, 2023 01:06AM
This is really happening.
Religious fundamentalists are behind this, and they (falsely) claim that "God" is telling them to do it.
This is persecution, plain and simple.
I personally know two families who had to literally pack up theIr car and flee in the dead of night so their children would not be taken from them.
This is like Jews in 1930s Germany desperately trying to find American sponsors who would put up the cash they needed for a visa to escape the Nuremberg Laws.
But this isn't history.
This is happening right here, right now.
If this doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/what-did-refugees-need-to-obtain-a-us-visa-in-the-1930shttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/texas-parents-transgender-kids-raising-money-online-move-state/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ill-do-anything-to-keep-my-family-together-trans-kids-parents-are-draining-their-savings-to-flee-conservative-states-11655918377Heather wants to escape Alabama. Urgently.
The 48-year-old music teacher first moved with her two children to rural Marion County, located in the northwestern part of the state right on the Mississippi border, from Lancaster, Pa., last August. She was in the midst of a divorce, and her parents said she could live in the home where she was raised because they were getting a new place about 10 minutes down the road.
Heather planned to send her kids, one of whom is transgender, to a just-opened charter school in the Birmingham area that marketed itself as an “LGBTQ-affirming learning environment.” It seemed like a fresh start.
But by April, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law a bill that outlawed providing gender-affirming medical care for transgender children like Heather’s 15-year-old son, Robert, who takes testosterone.
Heather’s best friend told her it was time to leave Alabama entirely. Yet that would be far easier said than done: Similar rhetoric against transgender children was cropping up in deeply conservative states across the country, and developmentally appropriate gender-affirming care — which can include puberty blockers and hormone therapy — was likened to child abuse in Texas. Even lawmakers in states with more moderate Republican governors, like Ohio, mulled legislation that could require pelvic exams on child student-athletes to make sure transgender girls can’t play on female sports teams.
To get out of Alabama, Heather will have to navigate an expensive cross-country move under concerns of a looming recession, a tight housing market, and the worst inflation in four decades. She’ll have to exhaust her savings and tap into a Go Fund Me she felt guilty creating in the first place, joining the legion of trans adults and parents of trans children who have similarly asked for money to move out of conservative states. She’ll likely have to purchase a modest home, since her budget for property in the Chicago area is about $200,000, even though the median home price there in April was $325,000. And she’ll have to leave the family members she had hoped to be closer to — all for the kind of safety that “everyone deserves."