The Daily Wire‘s Mairead Elordi has an insane story today: An LGBTQ activist and her trans-identifying husband housed a 17-year-old trans-identifying girl, against her mother’s wishes, when the girl ran away from home. Police did not intervene.
The girl identifies as a boy and has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, an eating disorder, depression, and anxiety. She saw a school counselor, “without her mother’s knowledge, who advised the girl to terminate parental notification and encouraged her to participate in LGBT support groups,” according to the girl’s mother. When the girl ran away from home in December after a fight with her mother, she went to the home of JoAnn Smotherman, a former math teacher at a Colorado high school, and JoAnn’s husband Vivian Smotherman, a trans-identifying man:
On January 5, Stein went with two friends to the Smothermans’ house and tried to retrieve her daughter. Stein called the police, and two deputies with the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office responded and conducted a welfare check on her daughter.
“Basically, as long as I know that everybody’s okay, that’s really the extent of law enforcement involvement, you know what I mean? I don’t know. I don’t know what else to say,” one deputy told both Smothermans on their porch when he arrived.
“We get it. He’s just incredibly terrified right now because of everything that they’ve been through,” Vivian responded, using male pronouns for the girl.
The officer went inside and asked the teen how she was, and she responded, “I’m good, how are you?”
“Good, that’s all I need to basically hear,” the officer said, adding later, “You don’t appear to be in distress. I don’t want to put words in your mouth.”
In police footage, the girl’s mother referred to her as a female. The Smothermans used male pronouns to refer to the girl.
To sum it up, a man dressed as a woman and his wife are harboring a 17-year-old autistic runaway against her mother’s wishes, and are indulging, and encouraging, her gender fantasies. And the girl’s biological mother can’t get her back. Despicable.