In the latest effort to turn the state into a bizarre, sexualized version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm combined with 1984, California legislators have set their sights on parents who refuse to play along with the demands of the transgender mob.

Assembly Bill 957 seeks to amend existing law to include affirmation of a child’s supposed gender identity for courts deciding whether parents are fit to provide for the “health, safety, and welfare of the child.”

Simply put, if this is signed into law — and in California, why wouldn’t it be? — parents who refuse to comply could be found guilty of child abuse, with their child being removed from their care by the state.

Alongside Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, state Sen. Scott Wiener is listed as a principal co-author, a fact that should spark alarm bells when we consider his sordid legislative history.

The aptly named Wiener is routinely at the center of California’s descent into sexual anarchy, having advanced legislation including S.B. 239 , which reduces exposing someone to HIV without their knowledge to a misdemeanor, S.B. 107 , which aims to allow children to receive gender transition surgeries without parental consent, and S.B. 145 , which protects those who sexually abuse minors.

With parents staring down the increasingly literal barrel of California’s government gun, forced to choose between embracing the societally induced false beliefs of their children or face their removal by Child “Protective” Services, many will be asking whether we have finally reached the bottom of the slippery slope.

But far from being the spurious outcome of a logical fallacy, everything we’re witnessing in California is not only real, but entirely inevitable.

At its root, California’s attitude toward gender transition is built on a fundamental lie: that your biological sex is not binary, but fluid. Countless further lies stand upon this foundation, including the idea that children can determine their sex and that vulnerable women should be placed alongside predatorial men in spaces such as bathrooms, shelters, and jails. With each month that passes, the lies become more insidious and more dangerous.

But however absurd in isolation, they remain logical extensions of the initial fundamental lie. If you believe that children, sometimes as young as 3 years old, can truly decide that their biological sex is incorrect and that the only response to such a determination is “treatment,” then anyone who stands in the way of this treatment is guilty of abuse.

The problem, of course, is that children cannot simply decide they are not a boy or a girl because no human being is capable of such a decision.

But when you combine this unquestionable pyramid of lies with the Californian belief that politicians should have ultimate control over citizens, particularly citizens’ children, what is the result? Unfettered power in the hands of creeps such as Scott Wiener, who are hellbent on legislative grooming of the most vulnerable among us.

And the most stunning element of all? This is exactly what many Californians continue to vote for.

Until the residents of Democratic Party bubbles such as Wiener’s San Francisco realize that it is only a matter of time before their "wokeness" is overtaken by the next iteration of so-called progressivism and it is suddenly their children being dragged away by the state, nothing will change.

It’s time for them to wake up before it’s too late.

Ian Haworth ( @ighaworth ) is the host of Off Limits with Ian Haworth . You can also find him on Substack .