Her state bans gender-affirming care for teenagers. So she travels 450 miles for it

DES MOINES, Iowa – In the future, Veronica sees herself in a big city. “I like chaos and spontaneousness,” she says, and she doesn’t get much of that in her town surrounded by farmland outside of Des Moines. It’s slow and boring, she says. Matching rows of ranch houses line wide manicured streets, with SUVs parked in the driveways.

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