Natalie Kitroeff

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.

And so I immediately called the person that we had talked to about getting her care.

And they said they had stopped giving care for anyone under the age of 19.

Wow.

We got on the Yale list for 2026 just in time to find out that they had shuttered their clinics.