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Veronica is 17. She has two more years of high school, then she can graduate and leave.

holy shit is she r-slurred?

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Possibly not quite 17 yet, or the reporter got the dates wrong. Kid does look neurodivergent/other kind of disorder in some way by their facial expression.

Also, I am really pissed that Mommy is not teaching her "daughter" how to dress appropriately. Kid is in the usual trans girl cutie outfit of spaghetti straps top with the bra straps showing, and it's plainly not the kind of weather for that outfit. Mommy is wearing a t-shirt and jacket, but although she's willing to drive 450 miles for a medical appointment, she can't tell the kid "put a jacket on, it's cold out"?

I think Mommy has been pushing for a trans cutie "daughter" ever since that speaker came to the school and is encouraging the kid to look and act like the online stereotypes.

This time, I really do blame the parent(s).

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Possibly not quite 17 yet,

seems more likely they'd get it wrong the other direction (asking "how old are you?" but not checking if their birthday falls before the publish date of the article)

and more likely they just got held back

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It was 80 degrees in Des Moines today and the article was prob written/researched this summer.

Also, says the kid has a summer birthday, probably before August, which means they're on the far end of their age cohort for public school. They'll be 17 as their junior year, 18 as a senior, then turn 19 right after graduating.

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she's literally just a girl okay?

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