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Related: About this forumRabbi with trans child says state government is at war with his family
On a recent afternoon, Rabbi Daniel Bogard, his wife and three children played football in the backyard of their St. Louis home a place that carries 65 years of family memories.
"My son sleeps in the same bedroom that I slept in, that my dad slept in," explained Bogard, whose children are the fifth generation of his family to call Missouri home.
But today, Bogard says the state doesn't feel safe anymore "for people like my son."
From a very young age, one of his twin daughters begged for boys' clothes and boys' toys. Then, one day came a startling question.
"I'll never forget," said Bogard. "I was putting him to bed and he turned to me and he said, 'Daddy, do you think God could make me over again as a boy?'"
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ShazzieB
(18,641 posts)Too bad the state of MO can't just let them BE a lovely family and raise thir children in peace!
This (the part in bold) made my blood boil:
Fuck those bastards!
Has Missouri also outlawed traveling to a different state for gender affirming care? Being in St. Louis, they are right across the river from Illinois, a state where we have been enacting laws to protect trans kids like the Bogards' son. I hope they will be able to get care for him one way or another before puberty kicks in.
icymist
(15,888 posts)is that they 'believe' they know what is good for everybody regardless of facts or what medical experts in the field have to say.
Though research shows it's rare for children to undergo gender-affirming surgeries, the state senator who filed the bill, Mike Moon, has said he wants to stop "the mutilation and butchering of children's bodies in Missouri."
It's like the blind leading the blind.