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young man. and so everyone does really know at that age. and rick, ashton transitioned as an adult. what was it like watching ashton try to fit in as a girl and a young woman? well, i would defer to ashton for more detail on that for his personal experience. but i know as a dad that he was full of inner turmoil when he was female. and i racked my brain to try to find an answer to what it was. and eventually found out when he was 19, it was at college, he was near suicide and did not see a path forward as a woman. so we brought him home and we started me one day, we were driving back somewhere in the driveway, and he said, dad, i think i want to be a man. i didn t have a frame of reference for it, but i said, bud, you don t have to do this
and i only wish i would have known that transitioning physically through hormone replacement therapy or getting surgery was available to me. i didn t know about it over a decade ago. now we know. and i am i mentor a lot of these young people, and i m fielding their questions and their concerns, and they re terrified of these bills and they lay in bed at night, and they wonder if they should end their lives, and i have to tell them your life is worth living, and even if it takes some time, i believe the world is getting better and i m so glad i was able to transition as young as i did. and, rick, you know, you describe yourself as a christian republican who s anti-woke. i imagine you have friends and acquaintances who would put themselves in the same category. what s their response when you speak so personally and so forcefully about why this legislation is wrong? well, i think it s important