When Texas Came for Our Kids

How evangelical extremists launched a war on TRANSGENDER TEENS

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Pub Date Dec 18 2023 | Archive Date Not set

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If we could go back to 2020, we would be shocked at lives of transgender children, who changed their names and birth certificates, played school sports, and got puberty blockers and hormone treatment freely and without comment in all 50 states.
 
But in three short years it would all disappear.
 
Without warning, over 1,000 bills would be introduced across half the country criminalizing nearly every facet of their lives virtually overnight.
 
What happened?
 
Evangelical Christian nationalists—enraged after string of devastating Supreme Court defeats—had pivoted from gay to transgender, investing hundreds of millions of dollars into remaking trans youth as the new face of the anti-gay culture war.
 
And it worked, beginning in Texas, which enacted the nation's first effective ban on treating transgender youth by redefining providing gender affirming medical care as felony child abuse, criminalizing loving parents, and sending scores of families fleeing across its borders in panic.
 
This is the story of how that happened. Filled with exclusive new details and behind-the-scenes interviews, this book is the first in-depth account of how evangelical Christian nationalists and their Republican allies conceived, plotted, launched, and prosecuted the nationwide War on Transgender Youth.

If we could go back to 2020, we would be shocked at lives of transgender children, who changed their names and birth certificates, played school sports, and got puberty blockers and hormone treatment...


Advance Praise


"Through deep research and vivid storytelling, lifelong activist/writer Riki Wilchins tells us the inside story of how the right has wreaked so much damage on trans kids, using their lives to reignite its endless war on gay and queer people. Buy this book!"
—Ted Allen, OG Queer Eye cast

“Compelling. Revealing. Thought-provoking – Wilchins meticulously uncovers the people,  planning, & tactics behind the brutal campaign against trans youth. ”  -- Erin Reed, “Erin in the Morning”


"Through deep research and vivid storytelling, lifelong activist/writer Riki Wilchins tells us the inside story of how the right has wreaked so much damage on trans kids, using their lives to...


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Featured Reviews

Wow this book was not at all fun to read, but it is very important. It’s a modern history and such an important one. I knew everything described, though maybe not in such detail, but I’m a constitutional law attorney who is trans and has been paying attention to the news. I want everyone else who hasn’t been paying attention to read and learn!
I hope that people in the future read this and are shocked at how backward-thinking people were for demonizing trans youth.

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