Hello to anyone that sees this message.

As I speak on this day, Thursday, February 24th.

In early 2022, one year after attempting to run away and six months before her mother,

Charlotte, spoke at a Grapevine school board meeting.

Wren typed out a note to herself on her phone.

She read it for us.

I sit comfortably as I write this.

I, however, am in more immediate danger to both my own mental health and my families.

Wren, now a 15-year-old sophomore at the Aspire Academy for gifted students at Great

Vine High, was distraught.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott had just issued a letter directing the state's child welfare agency

to begin investigating parents seeking gender-affirming medical care for their transgender

children.

It classified care like hormones and puberty blockers as child abuse and called on professionals

and members of the public to report families they suspected of seeking these treatments.

But the state crackdown wasn't Wren's biggest fear.

Things had gotten worse between her and her mother in the year since she tried to run away.

On top of the illegalization of trans health care, I live in a reality where it would not be possible to attain

due to my mother's hatred for people she has referred to as trannies.

That winter, Charlotte had found girls' clothing in Wren's bedroom.

They got into a fight over it.

For Wren, it felt like her world was shrinking.

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