A proposed legislative bill that would require courts to consider parents who support their child’s transgender identity as acting in the best interests of the child has passed the California Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Well-rounded social support from friends and family members is strongly associated with positive mental development, physical health, and overall wellbeing of transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) children, Assemblywoman Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City), author of Assembly Bill (AB) 957, told the committee on March 21.
“AB 957 would center the health and welfare of TGI youth by acknowledging that affirming their gender identity is in their best interest,” she said. “As a mother of a trans youth, I experienced this firsthand in my own home. And we provided social support, not only from our family, but from our friends. And we began as we journey through this process with our own child, to be a caretaker to others who came to our home to seek refuge from non-affirming parents. This is personal.”…