Jose Trujillo, father of a trans boy in Arizona, speaks about how he sacrificed to become a naturalized citizen so that his kids could have freedoms that he didn’t have before becoming a citizen.

“We have an affirming community, we don’t experience discrimination in a way that so many people do in other states and in other areas of Texas.”īalancing raising their families while also advocating on behalf of their children’s lives is weighing heavily on all these parents. “It feels really bad to hear from people across the country that we just need to leave Texas because our experience here is not what we experience in the legislature,” she says. The woman on the screen goes on to explain her attorney advised her not to publicly advocate for herself or her trans child, and that her family took down all outward displays of support for LGBTQ+ people, like the Pride flag outside their home. I doubt it will be the last state to do so since this has become the de facto big issue for the US conservative movement – and Democrats seem reluctant to fight back too forcefully. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesĪ few weeks after the PTEC gathering, Alabama passed a series of bills that essentially make it illegal to be a trans minor in the state. People protest in front of Florida state senator Ileana Garcia’s office over the ‘don’t say gay’ bill in Miami on 9 March.