At a retreat in North Texas, the campers played games, laughed, joked and reveled in the company of other LGBTQ kids.
The girl traveled to summer camp with two friends from Austin , giggling and singing and cracking jokes on the drive up Interstate 35 . She was the oldest, at 14, and the tallest, so she claimed the front seat of the Prius. It was her first time back in Texas in nearly a year. Her family had left in September after the state made it illegal for minors to receive what advocates call gender-affirming care, such as hormone therapies, puberty blockers and transition surgeries.
Mike Sutter’s Top 25 Food Songs of All Time “I’ve realized there are a bunch of people who are basically out to get me at this point,” the girl said. When her family lived in Austin, she said, she worried about people finding out she was transgender. “What if they’re a raging transphobe? What if they want to kill me?” she’d ask herself. “That’s ridiculous to be thinking that as a child.
‘To shine in dark places’: Pastor responds to people in need in San Antonio suburbs The loudest and largest group surrounded Ollie Valdez-Ortiz, 18, a recent high school graduate with long wavy hair and a gentle charm. His mom had brought him and four other kids to camp, driving a rented van 10 hours from Brownsville, in the Rio Grande Valley.
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