From Emily Witt's "Where Do Trans Kids Go From Here?" in The New Yorker: "One father told me that his child had expressed that she was a girl since she began picking out clothes for herself, at the age of two and a half, and that as she grew older her choices in clothing, toys, friends, and activities had remained consistent. 'In every way that’s socially meaningful about what it means to be a girl nowadays in America, that’s what she’s always done,' he said. A military veteran from the Midwest, he was startled to find himself vilified by the executive order, which cast the care he’d sought for his daughter as 'chemical mutilation.' 'I’m not exactly a paragon of virtue or anything, but I’m a person who has lived a good and virtuous American life,' he told me. 'All of a sudden, I felt like I was pushed outside of all of that, and was criminalized and painted as morally perverse.' He and his family have started to map out worst-case scenarios. The father has a legal background, and has found himself reading and rereading the language of Trump’s statements, and even going back to the Federalist Papers. He has found solace in reminding himself of historic examples of Americans who found themselves marginalized for their views and didn’t fold."
