And as long as you're a foster parent and not an actual parent you have to run everything you do by the state. Most inconveniently you can't delegate custody to anyone else without their permission (you have to do paperwork even to get a babysitter as "respite care")
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that is... immensely fucked
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Yeah if people wanted to encourage trans teens to take a wait and see approach and discourage early medical transition they should be trying to make the landscape less hostile, not more They're actually creating a race against time here
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When you're in the system medical procedures are covered by Medicaid and you have a social worker who evaluates your informed consent If you wait then it's gambling on finding an adoptive parent who isn't a transphobe vs aging out at 18 and having no resources
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Thank you both for this thread.
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