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The New York Times Tiptoes Toward Gender

A Special Place in Hell

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Is She's Identifying as a Boy at School?

Sage was found nine days later in Maryland, a victim of sexual assault. Her parents were stunned to hear that their child who had just survived unspeakable trauma was being held in a juvenile detention cell. When they entered the courtroom Sage appeared from the penitentiary remotely on screen with only court appointed attorney, Anisa Khan, an assistant public defender present in the in person. She claimed she did not wish to return home and had been both emotionally and physically abused by his parents.

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