On this blog, I’ve talked about how pushy the Transgender Industrial Complex is about pushing transgender drugs and surgeries onto kids. Usually, they will tell parents that if they don’t agree with transing their kid, then the parents will be responsible for the self-ending of the child. “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” they ask parents of girls. And in at least one state, they want to put even more pressure on parents to consent.

Here’s the latest story from The Federalist:

Colorado’s Democrat state legislators want to force transgenderism on parents, requiring them to affirm their child’s “gender identity” or risk losing custody.

Radical lawmakers introduced “Concerning Legal Protections for The Dignity of a Minor” (SB 26-018) on Jan. 14, and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill, referring it to the full Senate on Feb. 18.

In its intended form, the bill requires courts to consider whether parents embrace their child’s “gender identity” when determining custody. Courts must favor parents who support their child’s “preferred name and pronouns” and push their child to receive harmful and damaging “transgender” drugs, hormones, and surgeries.

[…]While the bill seeks to regulate custody disputes, it also opens the door for courts or child protective services to remove transgender-identified kids from the custody of parents who believe in biological reality and don’t want to irreversibly harm their child with drugs and surgeries.

[…]Primary sponsors of the bill include Sens. Katie Wallace and Chris Kolker and Reps. Meg Froelich and Lorena García.

The article goes on to note that this has already happened in many states, including in red states like Indiana, Montana, Texas and Arizona. Who is doing this? Well, it’s usually a joint effort by a group of teachers, social workers, school administrators, school nurses, therapists, and medical providers.

One of the things that makes the transgendering of kids so painful is how these courts silence the parents so they can’t even tell anyone about what they are doing.

The Federalist article describes two of the cases – from Montana and Indiana:

When Krista and Todd Kolstad’s 14-year-old daughter landed in a Montana hospital for suicidal thoughts, her parents had no idea she would soon be taken from them. After the Kolstads’ daughter revealed her desire to “change genders,” Montana Child and Family Services removed her from their custody and relocated her to a treatment facility in Wyoming focused on “gender therapy.”

“They have a complete agenda. We have no voice, no voice in court,” Todd said. “They just gag ordered us and threatened jail time.”

Likewise, Mary and Jeremy Cox lost custody of their 16-year-old son for refusing to affirm his sexual identity confusion.

In courtroom proceedings, the Indiana Department of Child Services — while using biologically incorrect pronouns — argued the Coxes’ son needed to be in a home “where she is accepted for who she is,” not one that will “tell her how she should think and how she should feel.”

I don’t think socially conservative Christians realize the effect that this silencing parents has on the willingness of young people to get married. It’s a huge deterrent – the idea that teachers, administrators, social workers, medical people, etc. can come in and trans your child, force you to pay the costs on your health insurance, and then silence you from complaining about what they are doing to you.

This is very depressing, and if I were you, I would move to the reddest state you can find. Not Indiana, not Texas, not any of those. Tennessee is the best state in the union for social conservatives, and then other states like Oklahoma, Arkansas and Alabama. Make this move a priority if you have kids, because you do not want to have your kids taken from you, and then be slapped with a gag order that prevents you from telling anyone about it.

Anyway, here is a good news story from The Federalist:

On Wednesday, the Texas Supreme Court heard opening arguments in the case of a woman seeking damages for medical malpractice in gender transition.

Soren Aldaco, a detransitioned woman who suffered from gender dysphoria as a teen and underwent a double mastectomy at 19, is suing Barbara Wood and Three Oaks Counseling Group for recommending the senseless mutilation and allegedly falsifying information to secure it.

I thought this part of the article was interesting, so you can see how children are led along the transgender path:

As a minor, a nurse practitioner she met at a transgender support group prescribed Aldaco hormones. He was essentially “recruiting” patients from the support group, Aldaco said, influencing children and their parents.

At the time of her surgery, Aldaco said she was taking multiple mental health medications, had been hospitalized for a manic episode, and struggled with anxiety and depression.

Although Aldaco had only received telehealth counseling from her therapist for “relationship issues,” Wood signed a recommendation letter for a double mastectomy. Wood provided the letter in February 2021, and Aldaco underwent surgery in June.

The aftermath of the surgery was brutal, physically and mentally scarring. Aldaco documented excessive bruising and swelling that would eventually require drains from the surgery sites. The clinic staff was less than receptive, evading responses to her concerns and repeatedly requesting that she sign a nondisparagement agreement, she said.

Basically, the teaching, therapy and health care professions are filled with people who are driven by emotions. Their motto is “don’t judge”. They aren’t big on moral boundaries and spiritual truth claims. They just want people to do what feels good in the moment, and then escape all judgment and punishment. And they certainly don’t care what the Bible has to say about what the rules are and what the purpose of life is. They just want to be happy. And they want you to “just love everybody”. So, guys like me who tell young people not to take out student loans for English degrees are seen as terrible people.

Bible-believing Christian men are seen as the worst – always telling people to make better choices about relationships and sex and money. Blech! But what happens when the “don’t judge” people mislead their victims into terrible mistakes, like transgenderism. Then, the don’t judge people stop answering the phone, and they want you to sign a “nondisparagement agreement”. They really don’t like accountability. In fact, if they can, they’ll use force to cover up their failure and the damage that they caused. In Canada, the transgender activists often force parents to keep silent about what they are doing to children with publication bans, for example.

In case you missed it, the first victory from a detransitioner case happened recently. I blogged before about how transgender doctors love to trans kids because the initial treatments and ongoing treatments are a “huge money maker” for these health care providers. That’s why you need to be careful where you take your children for their educations and health care. A lot of these people on the secular left in the schools and hospitals are hoping to turn your kid into a pot of gold. And they don’t care what permanent effects they cause when they’re getting their bag of gold.