‘It is painful to have your child rejected’: the parents group fighting new anti-trans laws

Jose and Lizette Trujillo with their son in Tucson, Arizona. Photograph: Cassidy Araiza/The Guardian

The faces of two clearly exhausted adults appear on a screen at the front of the room. They wish to be identified only as parents from Texas.

“I don’t know what I look like on your end,” the mother says, “but I know I look like death on my end, so it can’t be good on the Zoom screen.”