Who's ? Right: California is poised to take children away from parents who won't help them get sex changes

Saturday, July 15, 2023

California is poised to take children away from parents who won't help them get sex changes

The following article was obtained through the Washington Examiner and written by Zachary Faria.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, right, prepares to announce his proposed measure to provide legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 17, 2022.
(AP Photo: Rich Pedroncelli)

California Democrats are now considering a bill that would cause parents to lose their children in custody disputes if they do not favor pushing them into irreversible sex changes. It can only get worse from there.

The California bill currently being considered in the legislature would include “a parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity” as a tenet of “the health, safety, and welfare” of a child in a custody dispute. The bill is being pushed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, who is behind most of the terrible gender-based policies in California. Wiener introduced the “sanctuary state” law for child sex changes and led the push to lessen the penalty for intentionally exposing people to HIV, which he claimed was an LGBT issue.

The bill is coauthored by Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, who is also pushing a bill to mandate that foster parents promise to help children get irreversible sex changes. Wilson used the example of a 7-year-old who “is talking about having the potential to say … being able to articulate that they believe that they are not the same gender as they are biologically, then it should be affirmed.”

Again, she is saying a 7-year-old who thinks she may or may not be the right gender should be whisked into puberty blockers, hormone replacements, and sex change surgeries. Unsurprisingly, the example Wilson used is her own, asserting that if you don’t do the same, you are “rejecting” your child.

It is a very short path from asserting that courts in an intra-parent custody dispute should penalize a parent who won’t “affirm” transgender delusions for their child to saying that the state should take custody away from both parents if they refuse to begin sex changes for their children. If not “affirming” your child’s self-professed gender affects their “health, safety, and welfare” in custody disputes, why would the same not apply to both parents “rejecting” their child?

We have already seen cases where teachers leading gay and transgender clubs recruit children into them behind their parents' backs and coach them through “social transitions” without informing their parents, even exploiting children dealing with mental health issues in the process. This bill would set the stage for those teachers to claim that parents are abusing children by not “affirming” their transgenderism.

This is not a slippery slope, it’s a cliff dive. There are no logical guardrails that would prevent California Democrats from immediately expanding this from custody disputes, which is already a gross injustice, to all parents at any time. It is despicable and yet, in deep-blue California, it is a very real threat now facing parents all across the state.