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Activist Chris Elston, known as Billboard Chris, is joined by supporters in demonstrating against "gender affirmation" treatments and surgeries for minors by gathering outside Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 18, 2022. Joseph Prezioso/ AFP via Getty Images
In middle school, Abel Garcia wondered if he was a woman. Now he wishes he had been protected from choosing a destructive path that has permanently affected his life.
“My culture is [about] being very masculine,” Mr. Garcia, now 26, told The Epoch Times. “I always questioned myself as a young man, to the point that I wasn’t sure if I could reach the standards of what it meant to be a man.”
