Woke legislators in the leftist state of California is about to make ‘not’ affirming your child’s gender identity a crime of child abuse, which would be a reason to take your child away from you.
Via Daily Signal:
A recently amended California bill would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.
AB 957 passed California’s State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after hours in California’s State Senate on June 6.
Assembly Member Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, wrote the bill and introduced it on Feb. 14. State Sen. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, co-sponsored it. Wilson’s child identifies as transgender.
Originally, AB 957 required courts to consider whether a child’s parents were “gender-affirming” in custody cases. Wiener’s amendment completely rewrites California’s standard of child care.
AB 957 post-amendment “would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child,” altering the definition and application of the entire California Family Code.
California courts would be given complete authority under Section 3011 of California’s Family Code to remove a child from his or her parents’ home if parents disapprove of LGBTQ+ ideology.
Because they are making this about ‘health, safety, and welfare’, it wouldn’t just apply to parents but also organizations involved in the child’s life. Meaning if the child’s church refused to endorse their transgender identity, they could be accused of child abuse:
By changing the definition of what constitutes the “health, safety, and welfare of [a] child,” schools, churches, hospitals, and other organizations interacting with children would be required to affirm “gender transitions” in minors by default—or risk charges of child abuse.
This would also mean these organizations would be able to report a parent for ‘child abuse’ and have them taken away. It goes both ways and it’s absolutely abominable.
I’m sure a law like this would be challenged in the courts and I would hope that the court system would quickly reject it.