Amber Briggle, Activist

Your New Life Blend

Amber Briggle describes herself as mostly just an unconditionally loving mom. She also happens to be one of America's most visible moms of a transgender child in the fight for trans inclusivity, equality and justice. She's also doing it in Texas, where she fights every day to keep her family safe in her home state (which she is not planning to leave).
Amber and her family were investigated by the Texas Department of Family Protective Services for child abuse in 2022 after Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the agency to open such cases against families like theirs. Amber and her family sued the governor along with co-plaintiffs in PFLAG v. Abbott in order to permanently halt these investigations. This is the defining fight of Amber's life, and the one that gets all the headlines - but she is also a small business owner and a wife and mom of two managing everything else that comes with living a full life with all its gifts and challenges.
In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Amber about how she also looks after herself, how she finds and cultivates the support her family needs, how she navigates being a public figure just for loving her kid - and how you can still build the life you want, even when the world is coming at you with all it's got.
Website: Love To The Max
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/mrsbriggle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberbriggle
https://www.youtube.com/@amberbriggle427
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