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Meeting with California State Senator Scott Wiener on "Gender Affirming Care" in San Francisco

In October of 2023, a mother of a trans identified child talked one on one with Scott Wiener at an event held at Manny’s in San Francisco. This mother briefly explained that her son was possibly gay, had mental health issues, and that he wanted to medicalize his trans identity. She asked for a meeting with him in his office with other progressive parent…

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2 months ago · 73 likes · 14 comments · Sasha Aguilar

To the editors of The New Yorker:

This letter is for the editorial and writing staff with no expectation of publication.

I read Sam Wolson’s piece “A Mother and her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S” in my TNY Daily email yesterday. It is a tragic, heartbreaking story, beautifully rendered by Wolson. It sounds like this teenager does not want to leave home but mom believes it is in the teen’s best interest. She has “done her research,” thought long and hard about this decision. This parent has only ever done what she believes is the right thing to do (as I believe we all do) and has based her decisions on what her cultural and social surround have told her is right and good. I don’t blame this parent. But, like all of us parents, she will someday have to reckon with the decisions she has made.

This story is a compound tragedy. Today I am calling out the journalists and cultural messengers who continue to promulgate the unfalsifiable, unexamined belief that a gender non-conforming child should be medicalized.

According to Wolson’s story, this child “came out” as trans at 11 years old and had a double mastectomy at 13 years old and is taking non-endogenous hormones. Is the only story to be explored here about how the truly horrendous behavior of President Trump and his Project 2025 administration is affecting people?

I am a life-long liberal and duly horrified that our country elected an imbecile who is doing irreparable harm to so many and so much. The 2024 election results are complex to be sure, but I believe the reason Trump was able to garner just enough votes to put him over the edge (and cause enough liberals