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Step 1: don't panic. The same garbage rule that is going to cost anyone on a ACA plan thousands of dollars next year will also hopefully keep MTG's transphobic bullshit from becoming law.
Step 2: prepare to endure. Talk to your trans-kid's pediatrician or specialist NOW about roll-your-own HRT and puberty blockers. (You don't want the only person advising you on them to be an unlicensed internet pharmacist). Get a lawyer if you can or get in contact with your local trans advocacy group.
Step 3: prepare to move. Leaving a garbage red state for a brave blue state is good advice for anyone who isn't a white nazi. New York and New England or the west coast. Not VA, PA or MI (Both lovely, too purple).
Step 4: prepare to flee. Do NOT keep your family here if elections are cancelled, civil war breaks out, or the post-truno POTUS is an even worse Christian DominionIst.
Step 5: talk to your kid about what THEY want. Children are just temporarily disabled adults, and they may surprise you.
Step 6: vote. Pick Republican or Democrat, and vote in EVERY election, general or primary, whether you like the candidates or need to just spoil your ballot.
Step 7: advocate. As much as you can, tell your neighbors and reps and random strangers that your kid shouldn't live in fear or be tortured because some small-hearted bigot doesn't know the difference between sex and gender.
Step 4: Flee is incorrect. The answer is fight.
This person has no experience in combat. Sun Tsu isn't the first person to remind us that fleeing is sometimes the best option, but he may be the most famous.
This person has no experience with english. Fight doesn't only mean combat.