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, Charla,

spoke at a Great Vine 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.

A 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 tranies.

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.

Living life as a boy has taken a noticeable toll on my mental health recently. I have reached a point in which

I can no longer take this. In the summer following this school year I will be attempting to go to court to transfer primary custody to my father.

After composing the note, Wren thought about posting it somewhere or sending it to her friends.

In the end, she sent it to only one person,

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