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Eric Berger

How Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ law could harm children’s mental health

High school students protest the ‘don’t say gay’ bill in Tampa, Florida.
High school students protest the ‘don’t say gay’ bill in Tampa, Florida. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

Stella, 10, attends a private school in Atlanta, Georgia, and explains to friends that she has four moms. Two of them are the lesbian couple that adopted her. The other two are her birth parents, one of whom recently came out as a transgender woman.

“I’m so grateful that [Stella] is somewhere that sees” the family “as what it is: her moms just love her”, said Kelsey Hanley, Stella’s birth mother, who lives in Kissimmee, Florida.

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