Kai Shappley
A national spotlight is shining brightly on a Texas transgender girl for her activism last year pushing back on legislation, reports KXAN.
Several times during the 2021 legislative session, Kai Shappley made the trip to the Texas State Capitol with her mother to testify against bills that would affect transgender Texans. Those appearances helped lead the 11-year-old to recently be named a finalist for Time Kid of the Year.
“I started my activism because I thought it was unfair how they were treating us,” Shappley told KXAN in an interview. “We’ve seen a lot of what’s going on multiple times in history, and it’s just history repeating itself over and over. It’s terrible, so I started speaking out because I wanted that to stop.”
During one Senate committee hearing in April last year, Shappley sat in front of a microphone and shared her opposition to legislation that would have criminalized providing or assisting a young person with gender-affirming health care as child abuse.
“I do not like spending my free time asking adults to make good choices,” Shappley said.
“It makes me sad that some politicians use trans kids like me to get votes from people who hate me just because I exist,” she added. “God made me. God loves me for who I am, and God does not make mistakes.”
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