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Melissa Block

Parents raise concerns as Florida bans gender-affirming care for trans kids

Virginia Hamner and her daughter Liz Bostock, at home in Gainesville, Fla. (Melissa Block/NPR)

When 13-year-old Liz Bostock thinks back, she remembers feeling in-between genders as early as preschool.

Assigned male at birth, she identified as nonbinary by fifth grade and decided to use they/them pronouns. Now a seventh-grader in Gainesville, Fla., with a passion for manga and anime video games, and a bedroom filled with stuffed animals, Liz identifies as female and transgender.

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