We Are Family: A Conversation with Trans Youth and Supportive Parents

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A panel discussion highlighting the impact of supportive parents in trans youth’s lives. Sit in for a moderated conversation featuring two trans youth and their parents. Learn about the particular challenges facing trans and LGBTQ+ youth, and how families are responding to the ever-changing political and social landscape. Even more importantly, we’ll hear how these families uplift their children, and how we as a community can better respond in this critical moment. In recent years, transgender youth and their families have been made central targets of political, legal, and cultural attacks on their fundamental rights and safety. A slew of SCOTUS rulings have undermined the ability of trans youth and their families to access life-saving healthcare, sports participation, and inclusive education. Across the nation, ultraconservative parental rights activists have dominated debates on trans and queer inclusion in schools, weaponizing their own beliefs to restrict the liberties of families who affirm their trans children. Nevertheless, trans youth in Los Angeles and beyond continue to show incredible courage and resolve to simply live authentically— many of them with loving, supportive parents, who are not only caretakers but staunch advocates.

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