NEW YORK – “My name is Brandon Boulware, president, and I will try to go as fast as possible.” Boulware thought that the only way to make up for years in which he had “silenced” his daughter was to make as much noise as possible. But not with screams. Speaking quietly in front of the Missouri State House of Representatives, which, in a firm voice, he asked to remove the law banning transgender girls from playing sports with women’s teams.
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He presented himself as a lawyer, a Christian, the son of a Methodist minister, father of four children, two boys and two girls, “one of whom is a magnificent and beautiful transgender daughter”. “Today is his birthday – he revealed – and I have chosen to be here. She doesn’t know, she thinks she’s at work. One thing I’ve often heard when it comes to transgender is the phrase ‘I don’t understand’. I expect to hear it from some of you. But for years I too did not understand ”.
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For years, against the advice of teachers and therapists, Boulware and his wife had forced their daughter to “dress like a boy, wear short hair and play with the boys.” He thought he was protecting her, he wanted to prevent his brothers from being isolated too. “But in the end I was doing it just to protect myself, not to have to answer questions, explain why my son didn’t behave like other kids.” “Our actions – she admitted – had by now reduced her to a painful state, she no longer trusted anyone, she had no friends, she no longer smiled. Yes, I had a daughter who didn’t smile ”.
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One day, he added, he understood. “I was back from work. My daughter and her brother were in the garden in front of the house. She had put on her older sister’s clothes. They wanted to cross the street and play with the neighbors’ children. I told them to come into the house ”. She asked him why, then asked him a question: “If I come home and dress up as a boy, can I go?”. “That was the moment when I was struck – explained the father – my daughter was putting on the same level being right with being someone else. I was teaching her to deny who she really was ”.
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There the father understood one thing: “as parents we cannot cancel the spirit of our children”. Since that day Boulware and his wife have stopped saying no. And the yeses have arrived. The girl began to wear the clothes she wanted, to style her hair, experiencing a “total transformation”. Now he laughs, he has friends, he plays on the women’s volleyball team. The man’s voice was broken with emotion, but he found the strength to launch the final appeal to the legislators: “That law affects real people. Don’t take all this away from my daughter and from the countless people like her who are out there ”.
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“Resolution 53, under discussion in Missouri, and in twenty other states with similar laws, stipulates that teams in public schools must be trained on the basis of” biological sex. ” The video of Boulware’s speech was seen on Twitter by nearly seven million people. Among them, NBA star Dwayne Wade, whose 13-year-old daughter, Zaya, is transgender. “I don’t know Brandon Boulware at all – he wrote on Instagram, relaunching the video to its over 17 million followers – but I know we have something concrete in common. There is one thing we cannot do: cancel the spirit of our children. ”
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