Media attention often focuses on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?
“The hostility has always been there,” Paul told me. “But I feel like it truly began to ramp up like 2020.”
Much of the mainstream media coverage of anti-trans legislation has focused on families of trans youth that have been forced to flee their home states. Often left out, however, are the stories of subterranean survival from the invisible majority of young trans Texans, many youth of color, who can’t leave.
And not only public life: The accumulated weight of this policy reality on the literal lives of trans youth is now quantitatively visible. Publishing in the peer-reviewed journalfinding a causal link between state-level anti-trans laws—bans on sports participation, school activities, health care, updates to legal identification, and bathroom access—and suicide risk among trans and gender nonbinary youth.
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