(Jewish Group) Rabbi with trans child says state government is at war with his family

[Behind the Aegis]

On a recent afternoon, Rabbi Daniel Bogard, his wife and three children played football in the backyard of their St. Louis home — a place that carries 65 years of family memories.

"My son sleeps in the same bedroom that I slept in, that my dad slept in," explained Bogard, whose children are the fifth generation of his family to call Missouri home.

But today, Bogard says the state doesn't feel safe anymore "for people like my son."

From a very young age, one of his twin daughters begged for boys' clothes and boys' toys. Then, one day came a startling question.

"I'll never forget," said Bogard. "I was putting him to bed and he turned to me and he said, 'Daddy, do you think God could make me over again as a boy?'"

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