I am a proud Virginian who was forced to leave my state as an adult because I believed it was not safe for me and I would never be able to prosper there... and because of the things I had lived through that were nothing but needless suffering. I believed that my state would not treat me with dignity and value my humanity and today, you have a chance to decide whether or not I was right to flee. But for me, the damage is done-- for so many innocent children going through the same struggles and fears... you have a chance to stop this evil and let them know that they are loved and cherished in Virginia and can make their home there one day. Or, you can abandon them to horror and depravity. 

You can’t even begin to understand the amount of harm that has been done by this evil; so many people with wounds that will never heal. It is a truly upside down world when people who claim to be concerned for children also claim the legal right to abuse and torment them if they don’t turn out to be what you want them to be.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pg7nq7/to-stop-trans-kids-from-killing-themselves-shocking-study-says-accept-them?utm_campaign=sharebutton

And then they will turn around and accuse the parents who love and accept their children as they were born to be “playing God” somehow. The existence of Trans and Intersex people is a natural phenomena that has been recorded in one way or another accross the world for all of human history; and now our scientific understanding of it is growing by leaps and bounds year after year.

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/02/24/sex-biology-redefined-genes-dont-indicate-binary-sexes/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5516745/Scientists-uncover-20-genes-linked-transgender.html

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/104/2/390/5104458?fbclid=IwAR3sxSIpdU8sNjm5thyL2Up1MZNYTBd5uZyI5svgPx8YLGNtg1d8bzFZwwU


This misbegotten and so-called “conversion therapy” is born of totally debunked psychoanalytic notions of human sexuality and identity based on Freudian quackery and rises out of the efforts to so-called “assign” a sex to intersex children by coersively performing genitoplasty procedures on them as infants and then lying and gaslighitng them about and aggressively trying to “program” and “condition” to identify the “right” way. And the same monsters claim they have a right to apply those same grotesque and abusive and sadistic “programming” methods to “cure” LGBT children as well.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-resort-to-nonsensical-arguments-to-justify_b_597b9b19e4b09982b7376474?utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=qv_fb&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050&_guc_consent_skip=1576085225

I do not make an appeal to the heart, because I’m not sure if the people who could possibly favor this barbaric treatment to try to control and force an artificial identity onto their child by teaching them they are worthless and grotesque and broken and physically and emotionally abusing them while calling it “therapy” could possibly have a heart. My only appeal is to reason, evidence, and science, and as public officials it is your duty to understand that evidence.

Because this is what you will unleash and countenance in the Commonwealth if you don’t, and send the signal that LGBTI people are a scourge or a disease to be ‘cured’, by one means or the other… and this is what you will unleash on innocent kids who only want to have a normal childhood and be loved. The damage you do to them by teaching them that they are broken and defective and deserve punishment for having been born, for teaching them that there is no one they can trust and that they will never be allowed to live a real, authentic or happy life… is damage that will last a lifetime, even if they do survive it.

https://www.towleroad.com/2018/08/hunting-season/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sumome_share&fbclid=IwAR3LSd4X7Nb06HuL9xcqFIpiaAEFJvQhTMxuQkhbk1lzpoJraFSycu0c4Cs


You have to stop this evil. It is psuedoscience and eugenics and child-abuse, and if you can’t accept the world of the people who are effected then understand all of the quantifiable empirical data for yourselves, and step out of the middle ages and the perverse mythologies of certain child-abusing cults masquerading in modern garb and meaningless jargon.

Do not force any other child to have to live through this, or may a just and loving God hold you accountable one day for what you do now.  I beg you, let it end. We were here yesterday. We are here today. We will be here tomorrow. We are not broken. We are not sick. We are not your playthings or lab rats. We are your friends and families and colleagues, and we deserve the chance to live.