How California Republicans are endangering transgender kids

To the editor: I’m transgender. Happily, I transitioned when there was a lot much less hostility towards us, and with at this time’s conservative intolerance, I discover myself grateful that I’m now a senior citizen who stays largely “underneath the radar” of those that would eradicate us. (“Missing political energy in California, conservatives flip focus to native faculty boards,” Aug. 15)

Immediately, I see this misguided perception that LGBTQ+ individuals are making an attempt to “enlist” our youth. From private expertise, I can assure you that this isn’t wherever near the reality. We’d by no means encourage others to tackle that emotional ache of grappling with LGBTQ+ emotions if it was not already part of their psychological make-up. We undergo loads to reside because the individuals we’re and help others who wish to do the identical.

This effort to power public faculties to out transgender college students appears to be a case of “we’re personally offended, despite the fact that it doesn’t have an effect on us personally, subsequently we should legislate this out of existence.” This pondering doesn’t acknowledge that such a coverage hurts, slightly than helps, those that want love and help.

And, having come of age in that earlier period of relative tolerance, I can attest to the truth that lots of people coping with their very own LGBTQ+ existence whose family members reject them is probably not alive for lengthy. I hope the management freaks by no means must take care of dropping somebody they insist they’re defending.

Kymberleigh Richards, Van Nuys

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To the editor: One should ask, precisely what sort of energy do California Republicans hope to extract by taking their anti-transgender activism to high school districts?

Is it the facility to out transgender college students no matter the very actual penalties of being ostracized, marginalized and deserted?

People like Assemblymember Invoice Essayli (R-Corona), who try to burnish their conservative credentials by endangering the lives of youngsters underneath the MAGA-red banner of parental rights, solely serve to fire up hate and worry in these for whom the final refuge of discrimination is at all times ignorance.

Invoice Waxman, Simi Valley