ATLANTA — April cries every time her 10-year-old transgender daughter’s heart is broken.
It breaks when she’s not invited to sleepovers. It breaks when relatives refuse to call her by the name she goes by. It breaks when she is pushed too far to talk about her feelings in therapy.
And now it’s breaking, April says, because the family is planning to move in the next 12 months to a northern state because of a new Georgia law that goes into effect July 1. That law, known by its legislative name SB 140, would greatly curtail the treatment available to transgender children under 18, such as gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgery to align with their gender identity.
