Feel what it’s like to raise a trans child in Texas in this unique video game

During game playthrough, your character is tasked with grabbing the final three items for your “safe folder,” a folder that can contain “letters from teachers, neighbors, and clergy that talk about how great of a parent you are to your to your trans child… drawings that your child has made of themselves that positively affirm their gender…and photos of you all together,” among other things, according to the game’s director, Robert Pigott.  

There is even a scene in the game that closely mirrors Briggle’s experience of inviting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to her home for dinner with her family in 2016, when the state attempted to keep trans youth from using bathrooms concurrent with their gender identity. Five years later, Paxton issued a legal opinion calling sex change procedures and puberty blockers for trans kids “child abuse” under Texas law. Abbott’s letter came shortly after.

In the letter, Abbott enumerates the procedures Texas state law views as “child abuse,” including “reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen.” 

This characterization of medical transition serves in stark contrast to the data, which consistently shows that access to gender transition positively impacts quality of life for trans people. An analysis of 56 peer-reviewed works by the What We Know Project found that in 93% of the studies, gender transition improved the overall well-being of trans respondents. 

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