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As DeSantis makes their child a target, a family decides to relocate her to Massachusetts
How many children must be sacrificed on the altar of Ron DeSantis’s presidential ambitions?
The Republican governor of Florida, like members of his party across the country, is targeting transgender people to raise his national profile, enacting regulations and pushing laws that make it harder — even illegal — for them to get gender-affirming health care, to exist safely in public, even to be spoken of in schools.
DeSantis’s GOP is using trans youth in particular as a culture-war cudgel, whipping up voter support with ever more draconian measures designed to drive them into the shadows, where they’re more likely to become depressed and hurt themselves.
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Rather than risk that, some families are making the gut-wrenching decision to flee.
“We’re being forced to leave, because of a political game that is being played, with our children as the pawns,” said Ruth, an attorney in South Florida whose 13-year-old daughter is transgender.
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