Deep Reads: After Mississippi banned his hormone shots, an 8-hour journey
This year, Mississippi banned transgender young people, such as Ray, from accessing hormones or other gender-transition treatments. Nearly half the country has since passed similar bills, according to the Movement Advancement Project.
Across the country, families are doing everything they can to protect their trans children. Some uprooted their lives in red states for the promise of protections in blue ones. Others filed lawsuits. Katie, Ray\u2019s mother, couldn\u2019t afford to move, and she needed a solution faster than the courts could offer, so she\u2019d settled on a cheaper, quicker plan: She\u2019d take a day off from her nursing job, and she and Ray would travel out of state for his medical care.
This story is the third in a collection of new, occasional bonus episodes you\u2019ll be hearing from \u201cPost Reports.\u201d We\u2019re calling these stories \u201cDeep Reads\u201d and they\u2019re part of The Post\u2019s commitment to immersive and narrative journalism.
Today\u2019s story was written by Casey Parks of The Washington Post and read by Adrienne Walker for Noa: News Over Audio, an app offering curated audio articles.