Natalie Kitroeff

Your child will be safe here.

And my wife started crying pretty much as soon as we walked in.

It did.

It was like that sense of home that we hadn't felt before.

And so long since, at least in the last several months, we walked into that space and it really did feel like this sense of home.

It's like you're being told, move here.

Yeah, and like we weren't,

this anomaly where there was actually a community.

And so then to have people that understand and to meet other parents that have moved across the country, I mean, there's lots of us.

to Connecticut, and all of a sudden, you're like, okay, we're not alone.

And for me, that's, yeah, that pretty much locked it up for us that this is where we needed to be.

Once they decided on Connecticut, they started calling around to clinics and pretty quickly found a provider who was willing to take Allie on.

Then they packed up that house on the cul-de-sac that they'd thought would be their forever home.

They said goodbye to their neighbors, whom they'd loved.

It was excruciating, but it also felt right.

But then, before they even got to the first appointment at the new clinic, they hit roadblocks.

We thought we had a person that was going to

do gender-affirming care when we got here.

And I saw on this Facebook group that they had issued subpoenas to several different hospitals across the country at gender-affirming care.

And so hospitals were starting to get a little nervous.