How Trans Kids Became America’s New Political Targets

After same-sex marriage became law, political strategists turned their attention to a new cultural battleground — transgender youth.

The political debate over transgender youth has become one of the most contentious civil-rights issues in the United States.

The political battle over transgender youth did not emerge in isolation. It took shape after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.

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