When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 2

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.5 • 97.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In Texas, a heated political battle is taking place over care provided to young transgender people, with Gov. Greg Abbott taking a leading role. The story of this confrontation began, improbably, with the contentious divorce of a suburban couple from Dallas, and a nasty custody battle over their daughter. We look at how a domestic dispute precipitated one of the fiercest political clashes in the country, and return to yesterday’s story about a trans teenager, Grayson, and his mother to explore the impact of this clash. Guests: J. David Goodman, The New York Times’s Houston bureau chief, covering Texas; and Azeen Ghorayshi, a reporter covering the intersection between sex, gender and science for The Times.

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0:42.7	Yesterday, in part 1, my colleague, Azeem Graci, described the complicated medical questions
0:51.2	that doctors and families are grappling with.
0:54.9	As more and more transgender teens are seeking care.
0:59.4	My name is Grayson and I'm currently 17.
1:04.0	How about I'm Holly, I'm older than the hills.
1:07.4	No, I'm 62.
1:11.6	She introduced us to Holly and her son Grayson, a trans teenager in Texas who for many years
1:19.4	had been struggling with questions around his identity.
1:23.2	I remember vividly that like every single night I'd come home so sad, I didn't know why
1:28.7	and then I just start to cry when I got to my room and I had cried because I was lying
1:33.2	to everyone in my life.
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