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No state should be able to assert custody over a child because the parents refuse to refer to the child by their preferred sex or pronouns. Bills like Sage’s Law in Virginia and the Affirming Families Act in Ohio are strong policies that protect children suffering from gender dysphoria... show more

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🚨 BREAKING: I just introduced legislation in the Ohio House to BAN state agencies from taking action against parents who refuse to allow their children to change their gender. While states like California are turning themselves into "refuges" for children with gender dysphoria, Ohio will protect the innocence of our kids and the rights of parents to raise them. Proud to partner with my colleague Rep. Rep Gary Click 🇺🇸 💯👍 on the Affirming Families First Act.

🚨 BREAKING: I just introduced legislation in the Ohio House to BAN state agencies from taking action against parents who refuse to allow their children to change their gender. While states like California are turning themselves into "refuges" for children with gender dysphoria, Ohio will protect the innocence of our kids and the rights of parents to raise them. Proud to partner with my colleague Rep. Rep Gary Click 🇺🇸 💯👍 on the Affirming Families First Act.

Rep. Josh Williams

340,884 views • 5 months ago

NEW: Hawaii Bill HB2079 Legalizes Kidnapping Children Across State Lines Directly From Hawaii Free Press “HB2079 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change” The Bill “Also forbids the entire state of Hawaii, including the governor, from disclosing records or extraditing any kidnapper charged in another state so long as the kidnapper alleges that the purpose of taking the child was to provide access to gender affirming care” Bill HB2079 “Forbids the courts from returning any child kidnapped from their home state. What in It gives them legal jurisdiction over your child.” “It also makes it a crime to interfere with the kidnappers or to disclose any data about the gender affirming care with anyone other than the kidnap kidnap kidnapper petitioner even if it's ordered by another court. And it would also become a crime under state law to comply with any oversight or investigation into the kidnappings from” More details on the Bill from Hawaii Free Press: “The Hawaii Kidnapping Bill's unique and unmistakable true intent is to allow legal protections for any non-parent with sufficient access and means to remove a child of any age from their home state, and to bring them to Hawaii in the name of receiving “Gender Affirming Care” – so long as they could not receive said ‘care’ in their home state. The many sections of Hawaii Revised Statutes affected by the Hawaii Kidnapping Bill are designed to trigger a series of child-custody 'loopholes' that cause inter-state barriers to be systematically removed, so long as the instigator says the magic words: “Gender Affirming Care.” “The bill's proposed amendments to the UCCJEA redefine a family-court emergency, to allow any person “acting as a parent” to obtain emergency temporary custody against natural parents who decline to provide their children so-called “Gender Affirming Care.” Natural parents’ refusal to provide sex-change procedures would be treated as being of the same legal weight and severity as actual physical abuse or child abandonment. The bill reads: §583A-204, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: (a) A court of this State [has] shall have temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this State and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because [the]: (1) The child, or a sibling or parent of the child, is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse[.]; or (2) The child has been unable to obtain gender‑affirming health care services. This language plainly redefines a custody “emergency” to mean “unable to obtain gender‑affirming health care services.”

NEW: Hawaii Bill HB2079 Legalizes Kidnapping Children Across State Lines Directly From Hawaii Free Press “HB2079 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change” The Bill “Also forbids the entire state of Hawaii, including the governor, from disclosing records or extraditing any kidnapper charged in another state so long as the kidnapper alleges that the purpose of taking the child was to provide access to gender affirming care” Bill HB2079 “Forbids the courts from returning any child kidnapped from their home state. What in It gives them legal jurisdiction over your child.” “It also makes it a crime to interfere with the kidnappers or to disclose any data about the gender affirming care with anyone other than the kidnap kidnap kidnapper petitioner even if it's ordered by another court. And it would also become a crime under state law to comply with any oversight or investigation into the kidnappings from” More details on the Bill from Hawaii Free Press: “The Hawaii Kidnapping Bill's unique and unmistakable true intent is to allow legal protections for any non-parent with sufficient access and means to remove a child of any age from their home state, and to bring them to Hawaii in the name of receiving “Gender Affirming Care” – so long as they could not receive said ‘care’ in their home state. The many sections of Hawaii Revised Statutes affected by the Hawaii Kidnapping Bill are designed to trigger a series of child-custody 'loopholes' that cause inter-state barriers to be systematically removed, so long as the instigator says the magic words: “Gender Affirming Care.” “The bill's proposed amendments to the UCCJEA redefine a family-court emergency, to allow any person “acting as a parent” to obtain emergency temporary custody against natural parents who decline to provide their children so-called “Gender Affirming Care.” Natural parents’ refusal to provide sex-change procedures would be treated as being of the same legal weight and severity as actual physical abuse or child abandonment. The bill reads: §583A-204, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: (a) A court of this State [has] shall have temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this State and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because [the]: (1) The child, or a sibling or parent of the child, is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse[.]; or (2) The child has been unable to obtain gender‑affirming health care services. This language plainly redefines a custody “emergency” to mean “unable to obtain gender‑affirming health care services.”

Wall Street Apes

269,970 views • 2 years ago

Erin Friday says that in states like California, parents risk losing their children if they refuse to transition them. She broke down to me how Child Protective Services can take children and strip parents of their rights once a child enters the system. “I have evidence of school counselors telling children how to use Child Protective Services to get away from their parents who refuse to capitulate and call them another gender.” “Once that child then gets into the crosshairs of Child Protective Services, the child can be taken and placed in a temporary foster care family.” “During that interim, the parents are being investigated.” “They can be investigated just from not calling their child a male or female name, whichever the child wants.” “There are foster care bill of rights in many of the blue states.” “Those bill of rights require that the child be housed based on gender identity… not their sex.” “So we take a child and put them in a very vulnerable position.” “The Bill of Rights also allows the child to get sex-rejecting interventions.” “You don’t need consent from the parents anymore.” “You get child and government consent to cross sex hormones, puberty blockers, name change.” “Parents essentially lose their parental rights to the government as long as those parents refuse to transition their children.” “These children are taught also to make false claims of abuse, not just emotional abuse, but physical abuse.” “The parents can’t even go to the press about what is happening to their child.” Erin Friday, Esq.

Erin Friday says that in states like California, parents risk losing their children if they refuse to transition them. She broke down to me how Child Protective Services can take children and strip parents of their rights once a child enters the system. “I have evidence of school counselors telling children how to use Child Protective Services to get away from their parents who refuse to capitulate and call them another gender.” “Once that child then gets into the crosshairs of Child Protective Services, the child can be taken and placed in a temporary foster care family.” “During that interim, the parents are being investigated.” “They can be investigated just from not calling their child a male or female name, whichever the child wants.” “There are foster care bill of rights in many of the blue states.” “Those bill of rights require that the child be housed based on gender identity… not their sex.” “So we take a child and put them in a very vulnerable position.” “The Bill of Rights also allows the child to get sex-rejecting interventions.” “You don’t need consent from the parents anymore.” “You get child and government consent to cross sex hormones, puberty blockers, name change.” “Parents essentially lose their parental rights to the government as long as those parents refuse to transition their children.” “These children are taught also to make false claims of abuse, not just emotional abuse, but physical abuse.” “The parents can’t even go to the press about what is happening to their child.” Erin Friday, Esq.

Jan Jekielek

13,429 views • 5 months ago

The Supreme Court rules against Democrats and sides with parents “The Supreme Court is ruled on California policy regarding the notification of parents surrounding their child's gender identity. Today's ruling overturns a state law which prevented schools from notifying parents if students changed their pronouns or gender expression at school.” “This comes after some religious parents and educators challenge California school policies aimed at preventing schools from outing students to their families. California argued students have the right to privacy over their gender expression, especially if they fear rejection from their families.”

The Supreme Court rules against Democrats and sides with parents “The Supreme Court is ruled on California policy regarding the notification of parents surrounding their child's gender identity. Today's ruling overturns a state law which prevented schools from notifying parents if students changed their pronouns or gender expression at school.” “This comes after some religious parents and educators challenge California school policies aimed at preventing schools from outing students to their families. California argued students have the right to privacy over their gender expression, especially if they fear rejection from their families.”

Wall Street Apes

45,671 views • 5 months ago

🚨WOW: The Massachusetts AG wants the state to become a sanctuary for parents who help their children access irreversible gender-change procedures. Allyson Slater, who works for AG Andrea Campbell, says Massachusetts needs to protect parents who are charged in other states for providing "gender-affirming care" to minors. "We need to make sure our courts do not recognize out-of-state findings of abuse and neglect against parents because they helped their transgender children access gender-affirming care," Slater said. Slater wants Massachusetts lawmakers to strengthen a 2022 shield law protecting adults from gender and abortion-related laws in other states. The move could have major implications for parents in other New England states. "This has no place in Massachusetts and it's critically important that we shore up protections for transgender youth and the people who love them," Slater added.

🚨WOW: The Massachusetts AG wants the state to become a sanctuary for parents who help their children access irreversible gender-change procedures. Allyson Slater, who works for AG Andrea Campbell, says Massachusetts needs to protect parents who are charged in other states for providing "gender-affirming care" to minors. "We need to make sure our courts do not recognize out-of-state findings of abuse and neglect against parents because they helped their transgender children access gender-affirming care," Slater said. Slater wants Massachusetts lawmakers to strengthen a 2022 shield law protecting adults from gender and abortion-related laws in other states. The move could have major implications for parents in other New England states. "This has no place in Massachusetts and it's critically important that we shore up protections for transgender youth and the people who love them," Slater added.

Off The Press

40,280 views • 1 year ago

In Washington state, it’s OK to separate kids from parents if the child wants to change their gender … but it’s not OK to separate criminal illegal aliens from their children. Gotcha.👍

In Washington state, it’s OK to separate kids from parents if the child wants to change their gender … but it’s not OK to separate criminal illegal aliens from their children. Gotcha.👍

Brandi Kruse

68,239 views • 1 year ago

"It is child abuse — and we will TREAT it like child abuse!" 🔥 Stephen Miller just laid down the law about radical gender ideology — so-called "gender affirming care." "It is child abuse to change a child's gender, particularly if you do not inform the parents." "If a five year old or a six year old goes to school, or a seven year old goes to school, and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl, or the girl into a boy. That is child abuse, and this administration is treating that as child abuse."

"It is child abuse — and we will TREAT it like child abuse!" 🔥 Stephen Miller just laid down the law about radical gender ideology — so-called "gender affirming care." "It is child abuse to change a child's gender, particularly if you do not inform the parents." "If a five year old or a six year old goes to school, or a seven year old goes to school, and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl, or the girl into a boy. That is child abuse, and this administration is treating that as child abuse."

Townhall.com

182,010 views • 1 year ago

Ossoff: No child in Georgia should be turned away from the doctor because they don't have health insurance. No child in Georgia should have to go without a checkup or be denied the hearing or dental or vision or mental health care they need to be happy and healthy and to thrive. How can we say we're doing right when children are being turned away from the doctor, when insurance companies deny Georgia kids and Georgia families care they need, when state officials turn a blind eye to the abuse and mistreatment of Georgia's foster kids, some of whom are literally trafficked while in the care of the State?

Ossoff: No child in Georgia should be turned away from the doctor because they don't have health insurance. No child in Georgia should have to go without a checkup or be denied the hearing or dental or vision or mental health care they need to be happy and healthy and to thrive. How can we say we're doing right when children are being turned away from the doctor, when insurance companies deny Georgia kids and Georgia families care they need, when state officials turn a blind eye to the abuse and mistreatment of Georgia's foster kids, some of whom are literally trafficked while in the care of the State?

Team Ossoff

40,884 views • 3 months ago

California School District passed a policy which says parents should be informed if their child changes their gender, name, or pronouns. The State Superintendent showed up to protest it and was escorted out by security after he tried to go over his time😂

California School District passed a policy which says parents should be informed if their child changes their gender, name, or pronouns. The State Superintendent showed up to protest it and was escorted out by security after he tried to go over his time😂

Libs of TikTok

1,497,984 views • 3 years ago

As I explained during my recent testimony before Congress, the state of California has been telling educators for many years that they are legally required to comply with children’s requests to hide their gender identities from parents. No more! Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that these secrecy policies are unconstitutional and ordered the state to include this statement in all relevant educator materials: “Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence. Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence. These federal constitutional rights are superior to any state or local laws, state or local regulations, or state or local policies to the contrary.” 👏👏👏

As I explained during my recent testimony before Congress, the state of California has been telling educators for many years that they are legally required to comply with children’s requests to hide their gender identities from parents. No more! Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that these secrecy policies are unconstitutional and ordered the state to include this statement in all relevant educator materials: “Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence. Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence. These federal constitutional rights are superior to any state or local laws, state or local regulations, or state or local policies to the contrary.” 👏👏👏

Laura Powell

43,046 views • 7 months ago

I’m afraid I have some terrible news. The governor of America’s largest and richest state has just signed a law that puts 10 million children and adolescents in grave danger of medical mistreatment. The media headlines have it wrong. They claim that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new law protects children by stopping public schools from outing their new gender to their parents. It does just the opposite. It makes children vulnerable to irreversible and lifelong medical abuse and mistreatment. And it is all based on the pseudoscientific idea that some children are born into the wrong bodies and that we can change a person’s sex through drugs and surgery. For any of this to make sense, you have to understand what’s happening in Britain. Several years ago, the government appointed a well-respected pediatrician named Hillary Cass to investigate whether it was ethical to block the puberty of children, give them opposite-sex hormones, and perform surgeries on their bodies to make them feel better about their gender. Dr. Cass came back a few weeks ago and said no, absolutely not. Around the same time, the British government banned puberty blockers nationwide. And, just a few days ago, the new Labor Party government affirmed that it would maintain the former government’s ban. In her report, Cass said that the so-called “social transition,” whereby a child adopts the identity of the opposite sex, is not a neutral act and has psychological consequences. This means it is the first step toward medical intervention. What Gavin Newsom has done is actively prevented schools from informing parents that their children have been put on a medical pathway. This is an outrageous attack on the rights of children and parents. Children have a right to go through puberty. No adult should be able to block their puberty. And parents have a right to know if their child thinks that they are the opposite sex or were born into the wrong body. We have seen with leaked internal documents of the leading gender medicine group, WPATH, that these medical interventions, namely puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery, are not only irreversible but result in sterilization and loss of sexual function. Children or adolescents are simply not mature enough to understand the effects of so-called “gender-affirming care.” They cannot, in other words, give their informed consent. The new law creates the grave risk that activist teachers, students, and outside groups will convince their children that they were born into the wrong body, and hide their “social transition” from parents, which will lead to harmful medical mistreatment. As such, the law that Newsom just signed is the opposite of what both children and their parents need. We need schools to immediately warn parents if their children think they are the opposite sex. After all, this is a diagnosable psychiatric condition known as “gender dysphoria.” And if your child has a psychiatric disorder, whether anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, or gender dysphoria, you have a right to know. And schools must stop teaching children, or allowing other people to teach children, the pseudoscientific and dehumanizing ideas that it’s possible to be born into the wrong body and possible to change one’s sex. As such, either the legislature, the courts, or a ballot initiative will be required to nullify Newsom’s law. Until then, it is important to spread the word to parents that California public schools are fundamentally unsafe for the millions of children who attend them.

I’m afraid I have some terrible news. The governor of America’s largest and richest state has just signed a law that puts 10 million children and adolescents in grave danger of medical mistreatment. The media headlines have it wrong. They claim that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new law protects children by stopping public schools from outing their new gender to their parents. It does just the opposite. It makes children vulnerable to irreversible and lifelong medical abuse and mistreatment. And it is all based on the pseudoscientific idea that some children are born into the wrong bodies and that we can change a person’s sex through drugs and surgery. For any of this to make sense, you have to understand what’s happening in Britain. Several years ago, the government appointed a well-respected pediatrician named Hillary Cass to investigate whether it was ethical to block the puberty of children, give them opposite-sex hormones, and perform surgeries on their bodies to make them feel better about their gender. Dr. Cass came back a few weeks ago and said no, absolutely not. Around the same time, the British government banned puberty blockers nationwide. And, just a few days ago, the new Labor Party government affirmed that it would maintain the former government’s ban. In her report, Cass said that the so-called “social transition,” whereby a child adopts the identity of the opposite sex, is not a neutral act and has psychological consequences. This means it is the first step toward medical intervention. What Gavin Newsom has done is actively prevented schools from informing parents that their children have been put on a medical pathway. This is an outrageous attack on the rights of children and parents. Children have a right to go through puberty. No adult should be able to block their puberty. And parents have a right to know if their child thinks that they are the opposite sex or were born into the wrong body. We have seen with leaked internal documents of the leading gender medicine group, WPATH, that these medical interventions, namely puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery, are not only irreversible but result in sterilization and loss of sexual function. Children or adolescents are simply not mature enough to understand the effects of so-called “gender-affirming care.” They cannot, in other words, give their informed consent. The new law creates the grave risk that activist teachers, students, and outside groups will convince their children that they were born into the wrong body, and hide their “social transition” from parents, which will lead to harmful medical mistreatment. As such, the law that Newsom just signed is the opposite of what both children and their parents need. We need schools to immediately warn parents if their children think they are the opposite sex. After all, this is a diagnosable psychiatric condition known as “gender dysphoria.” And if your child has a psychiatric disorder, whether anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, or gender dysphoria, you have a right to know. And schools must stop teaching children, or allowing other people to teach children, the pseudoscientific and dehumanizing ideas that it’s possible to be born into the wrong body and possible to change one’s sex. As such, either the legislature, the courts, or a ballot initiative will be required to nullify Newsom’s law. Until then, it is important to spread the word to parents that California public schools are fundamentally unsafe for the millions of children who attend them.

Michael Shellenberger

28,544,304 views • 2 years ago

This is so wrong “The bill that Gavin Newsom just signed into law, taking away parents' rights in the most fundamental way. To make it so that the state of California gets to make the decision to allow your child to undergo irreversible mutilation surgery in the name of quote unquote gender-affirming care”

This is so wrong “The bill that Gavin Newsom just signed into law, taking away parents' rights in the most fundamental way. To make it so that the state of California gets to make the decision to allow your child to undergo irreversible mutilation surgery in the name of quote unquote gender-affirming care”

Wall Street Apes

118,449 views • 1 year ago

🚨 6 yr-olds in Cottage Grove, WI, were shown a YouTube video discussing Gender Identity Pronouns titled "What Are Your Words?" After the video, the teacher had the class sit in a circle, asking each child to share their "preferred pronouns." There was no communication with parents prior to this incident.

🚨 6 yr-olds in Cottage Grove, WI, were shown a YouTube video discussing Gender Identity Pronouns titled "What Are Your Words?" After the video, the teacher had the class sit in a circle, asking each child to share their "preferred pronouns." There was no communication with parents prior to this incident.

Scarlett Johnson

83,432 views • 1 year ago

Fathers are often powerless to stop ex-spouses from transitioning their kids against their will. Today I proposed a bill to classify gender transitions as a form of child abuse in custody proceedings. Judges will no longer punish fathers by awarding custody to pro-trans parents.

Fathers are often powerless to stop ex-spouses from transitioning their kids against their will. Today I proposed a bill to classify gender transitions as a form of child abuse in custody proceedings. Judges will no longer punish fathers by awarding custody to pro-trans parents.

Tara Armstrong

92,826 views • 5 months ago

Democrats are the party of pedophiles. Progressives in the House just introduced the so-called Trans Bill of Rights to further sexualize kids by eliminating state level bans of “gender affirming” experimentation on minors. That’s exactly why we should pass my bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, to END the genital mutilation of children at the federal level.

Democrats are the party of pedophiles. Progressives in the House just introduced the so-called Trans Bill of Rights to further sexualize kids by eliminating state level bans of “gender affirming” experimentation on minors. That’s exactly why we should pass my bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, to END the genital mutilation of children at the federal level.

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

659,835 views • 3 years ago

During a webinar aimed at school administrators on the Mirabelli decision, a partner at a leading law firm that advises California school districts stated that existing policies and practices regarding staff use of students’ preferred names and pronouns “remain 100% in place.” The state has long taken the position that failing to use a student’s preferred name and pronouns constitutes unlawful discrimination, and that a student’s asserted identity may be withheld from parents at the student’s request. But the operative court order—upheld by the Supreme Court—expressly prohibits school employees from adopting a different name or pronouns for a child over parental objection or from misleading parents about their child’s identity. Despite SCOTUS’s clear affirmation of parents’ rights, there is little indication that school districts in California are changing course, instead relying on faulty legal guidance. Taxpayers are the ones paying the legal fees, so officials have little incentive to comply.

During a webinar aimed at school administrators on the Mirabelli decision, a partner at a leading law firm that advises California school districts stated that existing policies and practices regarding staff use of students’ preferred names and pronouns “remain 100% in place.” The state has long taken the position that failing to use a student’s preferred name and pronouns constitutes unlawful discrimination, and that a student’s asserted identity may be withheld from parents at the student’s request. But the operative court order—upheld by the Supreme Court—expressly prohibits school employees from adopting a different name or pronouns for a child over parental objection or from misleading parents about their child’s identity. Despite SCOTUS’s clear affirmation of parents’ rights, there is little indication that school districts in California are changing course, instead relying on faulty legal guidance. Taxpayers are the ones paying the legal fees, so officials have little incentive to comply.

Laura Powell

32,961 views • 4 months ago

JUST IN: California State Assembly has just passed a bill allowing parents to lose custody of their children if they refuse to accept their child's gender transition. They want your kids. “California lawmakers send Gov. Gavin Newsom a proposed law that would require judges to consider a parents affirmation of their child’s identity in custody cases,” reported Ashley Zavala on X. State senator Scott Wiener, who has no kids, co-authored the legislation. Creep.

JUST IN: California State Assembly has just passed a bill allowing parents to lose custody of their children if they refuse to accept their child's gender transition. They want your kids. “California lawmakers send Gov. Gavin Newsom a proposed law that would require judges to consider a parents affirmation of their child’s identity in custody cases,” reported Ashley Zavala on X. State senator Scott Wiener, who has no kids, co-authored the legislation. Creep.

Collin Rugg

8,871,388 views • 2 years ago

Virginia Democrats are failing to protect families from registered sex offenders who work within their radical gender policies so they can expose themselves to kids. As Attorney General, my job is to enforce the law and protect Virginians — especially our kids.

Virginia Democrats are failing to protect families from registered sex offenders who work within their radical gender policies so they can expose themselves to kids. As Attorney General, my job is to enforce the law and protect Virginians — especially our kids.

Jason Miyares

10,763 views • 1 year ago