The strongest predictor for someone being accepting of trans people is… knowing trans people.

Or even knowing of trans people. I was raised in a conservative family and society. If not for access to the stories of trans people that the internet gave me, I would probably have ended up as a deeply repressed, self-hating transphobe.

The world needs us.

“There’s a transgender man, who was tortured and assaulted and beaten to death. He was beaten because of the hate that people have, and I want to know why aren’t we protecting people like Sam?” Mayadev asked, The Examiner reports. “[The bill] is not solving any problems. It’s meddling in the patient-doctor relationship.”

According to a 2024 study published by JAMA, teenagers who are prescribed puberty blockers and hormones have a high level of satisfaction, with 97% continuing treatment.

It was this kind of information that helped to sway Larry.