How Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ law could harm children’s mental health

LGBTQ+ parents and pediatric psychologists say the law stigmatizes being gay or transgender and could harm the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth

Stella, 10, attends a private school in Atlanta, Georgia, and explains to friends that she has four moms. Two of them are the lesbian couple that adopted her. The other two are her birth parents, one of whom recently came out as a transgender woman.

I'm so grateful that [Stella] is somewhere that sees" the family as what it is: her moms just love her", said Kelsey Hanley, Stella's birth mother, who lives in Kissimmee, Florida.