Grief and tangled politics were at the heart of Kentucky’s fight over new trans law

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Kentucky state Sen. Karen Berg had to deal with the most devastating thing a mother could imagine.

In December last year, Berg’s transgender son Henry Berg-Brosseau died by suicide. He was just 24 and a prominent LGBTQ rights activist who inspired his mother to run for office.

As Berg thumbs through pages of her son’s work, she finds the last piece of writing he left, one that foreshadowed a new law in his home state of Kentucky.

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