'Refugees in the USA': Transgender care bans cause families to pull up stakes

Sitting in a nearly empty two-story suburban Utah house, Jen recounted one of her favorite annual traditions. Every year over Mother’s Day weekend, Jen and her family take a trip to the home improvement store. They buy seeds and plants for the garden in the backyard of their suburban Utah home.

This year was different.

“I was buying moving boxes at Lowe’s to pack up our stuff and when I saw the plants, I just sat in the parking lot and cried,” Jen said. “Because it was the perfect illustration of how our lives had been turned upside down by someone who can flippantly say, ‘We’ll just let the courts decide.’”