Trump is scaring the children of trans parents: Kids worry their parents will be taken away

New UCLA data shows Trump’s attacks on trans people are increasing fear among children and forcing families into daily safety planning.

A transgender parent holds a child in a quiet moment of care and protection.

For years, anti-trans politics has been framed as a fight over rules, paperwork, schools, sports, and public policy. That framing has always concealed the real target. What is happening is not an abstract ideological dispute. It is a campaign of social and political punishment, …