"We can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents' will. Among the anti-trans proposals Trump advocated for in his State of the Union address Tuesday night was a nationwide ban on schools acknowledging and supporting trans and gender diverse students' social transitions without notifying their parents."
"Sage Blair, who attended the address with her grandmother and legal guardian, Michele Blair, at the president's invitation. The moment was likely the first time many Americans had encountered Blair, who is at the center of a lawsuit over whether her Virginia high school should have informed her parents that she began identifying as a trans boy when she was 14."
"According to the New York Times and other outlets, Michele Blair, who legally adopted Sage at age two, sued the Appomattox County School Board, several district employees, and a Maryland public defender in August 2023. Blair's lawsuit cites the 'distress' about her body Sage experienced with the 'onset of puberty in 2019.'"
Sage Blair, a Liberty University student, attended President Trump's State of the Union address as his invited guest alongside her grandmother and legal guardian, Michele Blair. Trump used Blair's case to support his proposed nationwide ban preventing schools from acknowledging and supporting transgender and gender-diverse students' social transitions without notifying parents. Blair is at the center of a lawsuit regarding whether her Virginia high school should have informed her parents when she began identifying as a trans boy at age 14. According to her grandmother, Blair has since returned to using her birth name and she/her pronouns. Blair is also the namesake of an anti-trans law introduced by Virginia Republicans in 2023. Most public information about Blair's story originates from right-wing media sources and her grandmother's legal action.
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