Parents Say Idaho’s Republican-Led Anti-Trans Laws Isolated Their Daughter Before Her Death
Her parents say bathroom restrictions, care bans and stigma pushed her into isolation as Idaho passed 15 anti-LGBTQ+ laws, NBC News reported.
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'It got inside:' Months after a Boise student's death by suicide, her parents speak out
The parents of a Boise High School transgender student are speaking out about her death by suicide. In an in-depth NBC News report, they discuss the societal pressures facing teens like their daughter, May Pollard, 16, who died in January. “You worry about that hatred being internalized, and that’s what happened to my kid,” Elyse Thorpe told NBC News. “It got inside.” “She had a lot to give to this world,” Joseph Pollard told NBC News. “Whether …
Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America. A plaintiff in a suit against the state of Idaho, which has enacted some of the most draconian anti-trans laws in the country, May took her own life earlier this year: After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? …
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