As spelled out on his own campaign website, Trump's 2024 promises include a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in all 50 states, along with pulling Medicaid and Medicare funding for any hospital that offers treatments like puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy to minor patients.
For trans kids hailing from conservative states, that has too rarely been the case. Wyatt, who was 15 when I visited his family in South Dakota, spent his entire childhood making trips to the state Capitol building in hopes of preventing Republicans from chipping away at his right to exist.
Ultimately, I spoke to seven families of trans youth in seven different states which ended up becoming a book, American Teenager and what became clear to me is that trans children often have little in common with each other except for the desire for their elected leaders to let them live in peace.
By that time, Wyatt was already looking at pursuing ballet school in another state, aware that South Dakota would never return the undying love that he has for his home state.
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