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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | We have some breaking news right now from the Supreme Court that we need to bring in. |
0:05.2 | We're just getting a decision having to do with transgender care for minors, specifically. |
0:11.6 | The Supreme Court upholding a Tennessee law, restricting gender affirming care for those minors. |
0:17.5 | The other states out there, 20 plus of them, who have these laws, will also take |
0:21.6 | great reassurance that the court is signing off on what they've done. An advocate say today's |
0:25.9 | ruling is a huge setback for trans rights across the country. |
0:35.4 | Hi, my name's Olivia. We live in New Hampshire and my 11-year-old is likely to be impacted by this Supreme Court ruling. |
0:46.9 | He is on the verge of entering puberty and is likely to not be able to get the gender-affirming therapy that he needs. |
1:03.0 | Now, a lot of people might think, well, 11 years old, how does your child at 11 know anything about this? |
1:09.3 | And the truth of the matter is he has known since he was three years old. |
1:15.2 | And just to briefly share the story, all of his meltdowns at this point, her meltdowns |
1:22.2 | would end up. |
1:23.0 | And Mommy, kill me now. |
1:24.1 | Mommy, I want to die. |
1:25.8 | And I really just didn't know what to do. |
1:29.0 | My husband, and I were like at a loss of like, well, what are we doing so wrong that our child just wants to die? |
1:38.3 | We changed pronouns. |
1:40.2 | We allowed him to dress up however he wanted. |
1:42.4 | And never again has he had one of those meltdowns. |
1:47.0 | There was never any push to tell our child you should be a male. He knew. He always knew, and he still knows, and he has not wavered. |
2:01.1 | To him, the idea of going into puberty is absolutely traumatizing. |
2:09.9 | Our doctors have already told us, brace yourselves for the worst, you're going to have |
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