The New Yorkerさんのインスタグラム写真 - (The New YorkerInstagram)「In the past four years, the number of anti-trans bills proposed throughout the United States has dramatically risen. In March, the governor of Tennessee—which has passed at least 19 anti-L.G.B.T.Q. laws since 2015—signed a bill that banned gender-affirming health care for minors across the state. Willow, a 15-year-old transgender teen living in Nashville, had been on puberty blockers since 2021 and hoped to begin taking estrogen when she turned 16 later this year. On paper, the law would allow Willow to continue her medical care until March, 2024, but her mother, Kristen Chapman, wasn’t sure they could count on that. Following the ban, the clinic where Willow had been receiving treatment informed patients that it would be ceasing operations. Had they stayed in Nashville, Willow’s closest option to continue her course of medication would have been 450 miles away, in Illinois. Chapman, who had spoken out for trans rights through local media outlets, and had been targeted with online threats and menacing phone calls in return, understood that Tennessee, where she had lived for most of the past thirty-five years, had become a hostile environment for her family. She set up a GoFundMe page in early May and began planning to move the family to Richmond, Virginia. “I genuinely feel we are being run out of town on a rail,” Chapman said. “I am not being dramatic. It is not my imagination.” At the link in our bio, read about the shifting legal landscape that trans people have been left to navigate. Photograph by @tonjethilesen for The New Yorker.」10月13日 0時00分