I was an abused boy trying to deal with his budding sexuality being gay.  I did not think I gave off signs but the bullies sensed my vulnerability because I did not form friends and stayed to myself.  So they attacked me.  What shocked me was not that the bullies attacked me but that the teachers in the 1970s joined in, giving the bullies full permission to do so while restricting my grades.  Remember, I was not an out gay kid, I was an abused boy trying to keep his head down and get by each day.  But the future maga sinced my vunerablebiltey and attacked me.  Once it went around the school my entire teen school years became agony.  That is what the republican Christian nationalists are trying to drive us back to.  It changed in the 2000s with anti bulling and anti-discrimination programs.  tRump’s amdin has desperately attempted to remove all those programs and protections.  Hugs

Plenty of gay men took their husbands name or they both hyphenated both their names.  So these gay couples would not have a matching birth certificate.  I am one of those.  I took Ron’s last name deperatly wanting to leave my abusive adoptive parents last name very far behind.  Hugs

About these letters.  Allison Gill on the Daily Beans news podcast gave sourced reports that ICE detention agents raided the children’s rooms at this detention concentration camp for children / families and took all their letters with the intent to destroy their reports of what was happening to them.  Allison Gill has sued the government in court to save them and get them published.  I fear it will be too late.  Hugs.