National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund

Dear John,

As 2020 gets started, we know there are many fights ahead of us to
protect the transgender community, especially trans youth. The new
legislative session has just begun in South Dakota and in other states
around the country, and we are already seeing proposed bills that
would make it harder for young trans people to live as their authentic
gender.

These bills display a fundamental ignorance about medical treatment
for transgender youth. Being a kid is hard enough. Denying
best-practice health care and support to transgender youth can be
life-threatening. Decisions about medical treatment for transgender
youth should be made by a medical doctor, in accordance with the
current medical best practices; not politicians.

Especially politicians like South Dakota Rep. Fred Deutsch, who has no
business meddling in my family's health care. Particularly after
his extreme anti-trans rhetoric comparing health care for transgender
youth to Nazi medical experiments. In an interview with the Family
Research Council, Deutsch said:

"To me, [gender affirming care] is a crime against humanity,
when these procedures are done by these so-called doctors, you know,
that dance on the edge of medicine. I just don't think it should be
done. I think -- you know, I'm the son of a Holocaust survivor. I've
had family members killed in Auschwitz. And I've seen the pictures of
the bizarre medical experiments. I don't want that to happen to our
kids. And that's what's going on right now."

I'm disgusted by the willful ignorance and bigotry that seems to
know no bounds. This is why I'm asking you to join the NCTE
Action Fund in this fight. Just this week, the NCTE Action Fund hired
an organizer to work on the ground in my state of South Dakota to try
to defeat this and other horrendous proposals. But, we cannot do it
without your help. Sign up to give a monthly gift to the NCTE Action
Fund today so that we can ensure this work continues throughout the
legislative session.

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I hate when they come for anyone in the trans community, but now
they're coming after my kid and I'm exceptionally angry. I hope
you will join me and the NCTE Action Fund to tell these anti-trans
extremists that they will not hurt our kids.

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In Solidarity,

Jessica Hanson
South Dakota Mother of a Transgender Child &
Member of NCTE's Families for Transgender Equality



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