Father of transgender son worries about LGBTQ+ youths mental heath amid legislative session
Lucas Land
and last updated 2021-04-20 19:25:52-04
A surge of legislation in Texas is focused on the LGBTQ+ community, a group who is statistically more at risk of suffering from mental health problems.
According to Equality Texas, more than 40 bills that could affect LGBTQ+ families across the Lone Star State are up for debate in Austin.
One of those families are the Lands.
Alec Land came out to his family as a transgender just this year. It s a conversation that can be scary, but with a strong support system, his dad says it was an open and easy confession.
no, not at all. not a chance at all? nope. he s our son. so what do you want to do when you grow up? i really want to, like, discover new places in the world. discover new land. you want to be an explorer. yeah, i want to have like my own country that i own. like we ll call it alec land. right? i m not sure about that. i may name it related to florida because that s my home, like, place. back at his home-like place, they hope he ll be well enough to some day come back. gary tuchman, cnn, eureka, montana. such an impossible situation. gary blogged about covering the ranch for kids story. read his post at ac360.com. coming up next, one of the world s leading experts on adoptions on some of the problems orphans face.
would realize that maybe he would be too dangerous to be back in your family setting and that you would send him to a foster home or maybe get another family to adopt him? no, not at all. not a chance at all? nope. he s our son. so what do you want to do when you grow up? i really want to, like, discover new places in the world. discover new land. you want to be an explorer? yeah, i want to have like my own country that i own. like we ll call it alec land. right? i m not sure about that. i may name it related to florida because that s my home, like, place. back at his home-like place, they hope he ll be well enough to some day come back. gary tuchman, cnn, eureka, montana. such an impossible situation. gary blogged about covering the ranch for kids story. read his post at ac360.com.
he s our son. so what do you want to do when you grow up? i really want to, like, discover new places in the world. discover new land. you want to be an explorer. yeah, i want to have like my own country that i own. like we ll call it alec land. right? i m not sure about that. i may name it related to florida because that s my home, like, place. back at his home-like place, they hope he ll be well enough to some day come back. gary tuchman, cnn, eureka, montana. still ahead, building up america. how one man s image is help building up america. because of him, people have jobs in one of new york s poorest neighborhoods.