Trans Youth

In the United States, legislation is being passed to restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare for gender-diverse teens. To help parents, educators, and members of the community who are struggling with how to support these young people, author and educator Aidan Key has written Trans Children in Today’s Schools, an important…

The New York Times’ latest attack on trans people, When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know, is rife with misinformation and fearmongering. It is another in the line of failed attempts to present balance. Social transition, or affirmation, should be one of the least divisive steps a trans…

Becoming: a success story — Look, Mom! Your child is all grown up! They are finally on their way to a successful career! (No, that wasn’t an ironic use of pronouns…or was it?) Now graduate school, or maybe a decent job awaits. You are so glad that they are about to embark on a good…

I hesitated to write about Zaya because I didn’t want to be apart of a troubling trend of the picking apart of identity of Zaya that has been prominent since her revealed identity as a girl of trans experience. But I come from shared trans kinship and I understand some…

Here’s what started the latest social media dust-up. Jason Aldean’s Instagram celebrity hotwife Brittany Aldean posted an innocuous makeup tutorial on the platform. “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. …

Trans Rights Are Human Rights Disclaimer-//- This article was written by me originally in April of 2021 amid the news of trans youth needing inspections for sports, and parents being punished for allowing gender affirming care Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan…

Content notice: administrative violence, extreme transphobia, state surveillance, racism, ableism, suicide mention On August 5, 2022, I attended the full-day meeting of the Florida Board of Medicine where the board voted 13–1 to proceed with rulemaking related to gender affirming care for transgender youth. While this meeting received significant media…

On Feb 9th this year, The SF Board of Education approved a resolution I wrote affirming the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ students and calling on the SFUnified to create a Queer Transgender Parent Advisory Council (QTPAC). I was honored to work with 2SLGBTQIA+ families to bring this resolution to the Board…

…but I’m not backing down, and I stand by my comments. Today, The L.A. Times published an article entitled “A transgender psychologist reckons with the rising number of teens coming out as trans,” in which they devote 99% of the time to increasingly more vile and transmisist Psychologist Erica Anderson…