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Three families with transgender children face an impossible choice in states banning gender-affirming care: stay home and risk their children's well-being or uproot entirely.
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00:01Protecting vulnerable children.
00:02Ban a gendered change.
00:04Granted that later, welfare a child.
00:06That is counsel.
00:07Change an irreversible decision.
00:08I don't need blades and dreads.
00:11I'm a proud father of four.
00:13I'm a combat veteran.
00:16Typically, people see me and they're like,
00:18oh, yeah, that guy's scary.
00:22They think most people that look and talk and walk like me
00:26hate gay and trans people.
00:28Newsflash, I don't.
00:30Those are my people.
00:31Whose house?
00:32Our house!
00:33As long as you attempt to legislate and oppress the people of this state,
00:36I'll be here to fight you for their freedoms.
00:38Dark money, billionaire funders, right-wing policy institutes.
00:43When you think about the children as the future of the nation,
00:47then it's like there are deep political struggles
00:50over what kind of child gets to grow up into adulthood.
00:55The United States is boiling over with some of the most radical
01:00pediatric gender policies on earth.
01:04We're protecting kids.
01:05The war goes on to save our children because the seed of sexual sickness.
01:11Vilification is not a new political tactic at all.
01:16It has been the playbook since the beginning of this country.
01:21You fucked around and now you're gonna find out.
01:25Their whole life is going to be shit because of you.
01:29I hear like this clock ticking, going off now.
01:34If I don't have the healthcare I want, what happens to me next?
01:40In a world that has become much more hostile to your being in it.
01:44Like, what do you do to survive?
01:47I don't know what doll needs to hear this book.
01:49All these anti-trans laws are coming into place.
01:52Dolls, I need you guys to wake up.
01:56A lot of people feel hopeless.
01:57A lot of people feel like they ain't got nobody.
02:00When somebody sees me, I want them to be like,
02:01Oh, that person got sweet.
02:04I'm here.
02:05I'm gonna keep my family safe.
02:07We're gonna do whatever it takes.
02:09In order to save my daughter's life,
02:12I have to make it happen.
02:14I just don't know how.
02:16What do we do as parents?
02:19We make it happen.
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