LGBTQ parents left Texas for a safe place to raise kids. Here’s why. – USA TODAY
Our validity as a family has been questioned and minimized. For some time, it felt like just something we had to deal with. But lately it’s felt nearly impossible and, frankly, downright unsafe.
Stacey Stevenson
Opinion contributor
“You’re taking away my baby and my grandbabies.”
My dad’s words nearly crushed me. Even though we were on the phone, I could tell he was holding back tears. He has always been a tough guy, but he wasn’t prepared to hear that his first-born child, daughter-in-law and grandsons were moving across the country in search of a safer place to raise our family amid escalating anti-LGBTQ hostility in our home state of Texas.