I live in Seattle, a large, liberal city in a very blue state. Is that why my child is trans? According to supporters of the raft of proposed laws targeting trans youth in state legislatures around the country, the answer is emphatically yes: Transgender children are a liberal American fad.
Are they right? Is the Family Research Council, a powerful right-wing organization that supports many of these bills, correct when it claims that children like mine are the result of “a resurgence of postmodern thinking”?
Is it true, as a best-selling book has argued, that my daughter is part of a “transgender craze” sweeping America’s youth? The evidence in my inbox suggests otherwise.