Perspective: The child welfare system already hurts trans kids. Texas made it a nightmare.
of daily harassment and violence — bullying that agency staff ignore, encourage or in some cases inflict. “I had at least two fights a day. The boys used to do stupid things because I was gay, like throw rocks at me or put bleach in my food,” Mariah Lopez, a transgender woman who lived in multiple group homes beginning at age 8, recounted in a story for. “Once I was thrown down a flight of stairs and I’ve had my nose broken twice.
They even ripped up the only picture of my mother that I had.” The staff did nothing to protect Mariah from the violence. “Sometimes the staff would stand there while the kids jumped me. One time a staff member jumped me with the kids,” she recalled. Another LGBTQ youth stated in aabout his experience living in a group home: “I would always have a butcher knife inside under my pillow because I didn’t trust people.
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