Thank you for writing and sharing your letter. You give me the hope I need in this fight for our children. My daughter isn’t transgender but she is bisexual, from small town Kansas.

Your words validated the tears and fears I share as I watch this President chip away at the rights of our children. I look at my beautiful daughter and wonder how do I tell her that when she is ready to marry, her right to do that might not be there? When I am fixing supper for my three kids and husband I wonder will she sit at our holiday meals, look at her siblings and their children and spouses and know she wasn’t good enough to have the same rights? How do you explain that her dreams are not her own, they are in the hands of the government?

How do you look at two of your children and dream of their future, when you have one child whose rights are being torn apart by a city of men and women who don’t even know her name, or that she is even alive? When she came out we felt we needed to let her church leaders and teachers know. She had the courage to come out of the dark and be who she was supposed to be, we as a family needed to come out of the dark with her. Her only request to the church was to continue to treat her as they did last week, before they knew she was bisexual. Nothing has changed in her, she is still the same young woman she was last week as she is today. I thank God they were accepting and embraced her, but the politicians don’t see the human as our church did, they see religious agenda.

Please keep speaking out, fighting and loving your beautiful Little Miss and I shall continue to do the same for my young woman who I am proud to say is my daughter.

T