Posted on 06/01/2025 8:37:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Denver parents Brandon and Candace are spending tens of thousands of dollars to move to New Zealand in July. The reason, they said, is to protect their 9-year-old transgender daughter, Chase, from the effects of the Trump administration’s policies and an increasingly hostile climate for trans people in the United States.
“You’re taught to believe, or indoctrinated, I suppose, in America that this is the land of the free and promise and all of that, and for my child’s rights to be stripped away for just being herself is gross,” Candace said, adding that she and her family feel like they have “no control over” their future in the United States.
Brandon and Candace are one of five families interviewed by NBC News who have either already left or plan to leave the country as a result of federal and state policies targeting transgender people and their health care. The families described fears of increased anti-trans violence and losing access to health care and identification documents that reflect their gender identities.
During Donald Trump’s first presidential term, many trans people talked about leaving the country, according to Sydney Duncan, a lawyer for Advocates for Trans Equality, the country’s largest transgender rights group. However, few people actually did.
Trump’s second term has had a more immediate effect on trans people and their rights because of several executive orders he issued this year. The orders, many of which are blocked in court or have faced lawsuits, have prohibited federal funds from going to hospitals that provide transition-related care to minors, barred trans women and girls from competing in female sports in K-12 schools and colleges, blocked trans people from getting passports that reflect their gender identities and banned trans people from military service.
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Quite a few European countries do not permit transgender drugs or surgeries on minors.
The child abusers belong in jail, not New Zealand
30 years ago, there wasn't any of this "transgender" BS in the United States.
Somebodies are running an op in this country.
So sad to see you go. Or something.
Well..... bye!
Wanna bet the couple, if they really exist, has a GoFundMe...
Betcha.
“””The child abusers belong in jail, not New Zealand””
According to these people if my kid wants to be a pirate I should chop off a leg and hand and poke out his eye. Makes sense.
Good for those countries.
Lock those evil excuses for parental units up for a very long time.
And don’t let the door hit them on the way out.
they were here as transvestites and had their small underground activities and clubs also they were classified as a mental disorder known as body dysmorphia not wanting to identify as homosexual but as different LBGTQ+ allowed them to come out as oppressed and wanting to be normalized.
No one thought about them 30 years ago.
might I suggest Afghanistan! I am sure they will welcome you there on the rooftop!
“…spending tens of thousands of dollars to move to New Zealand in July.”
About 20 yrs ago at a family finance briefing on base they finance guys said the official estimate for a move - with movers paid for by the government- was $20,000
It’s now likely double
If this couple moving out of the country hasn’t estimated $50k they’re idiots just on that
Bye
Their SON is only 9 years old , and here they are, spending thousands of dollars for a complete upheaval of their lifestyle. Many 9 year old children will go through trends, fads and phases as they live out their childhood. Back in the 70s, astrology was a big deal for some kids. Most outgrew the obsession. A lot depends on what their peer groups are worked up about at any given time
Some kids become Little Greta’s and get wound up about recycling being Vegan. A family with strong leadership doesn’t change everything based on a child’s whim.
The logical consequence of this evil insanity.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Correct. These people are sick.
No future? Trans kids are genetic dead ends, that’s your future.
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