Virginia Foxx – The Federalist Jan 2, 2023
Attacks on parents are getting closer to home. From a woke education establishment to increasingly activist child protection agencies, parents are losing the right to decide how to raise their children. My new legislation, the Parental Right to Protect Act, will ensure parents aren’t expelled from their child’s life because they disagree with the left’s radical ideas on sex.
More medical facilities are offering life-altering, non-reversible medical interventions for adolescents who believe they were born the wrong sex. Many parents are against these experimental surgeries and hormonal interventions because they know these treatments will cause irreparable physical and emotional harm to their children.
Take Chloe Cole, for example, who at age 13 began taking puberty blockers. At age 15, she had a double mastectomy. And at age 16, she made the decision to stop these interventions and instead affirm her sex. Earlier this year, Chloe launched an organization alongside others who regret having received so-called “gender-affirming care.” This organization now works to warn others about the harms caused by such medical interventions.
It’s no wonder countries such as the United Kingdom and Sweden have recently suspended their use of this experimental approach on children, recognizing its inherent risks. Too bad the Biden administration isn’t following suit.
In fact, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are hell-bent on pushing a radical agenda in schools and in the home that is often squarely opposed to parents. Just this week, NBC news reported that the “Education Department has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into Granbury Independent School District after it pulled library books dealing with sexuality and gender.”
Parents Shut Out
Schools across the country are pushing children’s books and curricula in the classroom to normalize transgender ideology. When parents ask for access to school curricula many are stonewalled. One Rhode Island mom was billed $74,000 after filing a Freedom of Information Act request to gain access to her daughter’s school curriculum.
School boards nationwide have used various tactics for silencing parents, such as barring or restricting parents from participating in public meetings. One school board in Pennsylvania is now being sued for a pattern of trampling the First Amendment rights of parents, which includes cutting parents off in the middle of a sentence, yelling over them during their allocated time to speak, and deleting the remarks of parents it disagrees with from the official record and video recording.
Parents who do not support transgender medical interventions are sometimes kept in the dark by the education bureaucracy. An Ohio school district told teachers they did not have to inform parents if a student began transitioning at school, and one Florida school district kept “gender transition” counseling of a 12-year-old girl secret from her parents until she attempted suicide — twice.
CPS Going After Parents
If dealing with these issues at school wasn’t bad enough, now child protective services (CPS) are going after parents. In Indiana, a court recently upheld the removal of a child from parental custody after a CPS investigation alleged the parents were “verbally and emotionally abusing” the child when they would not use the child’s preferred pronouns or otherwise affirm the child’s desire to begin transgender medical interventions.
In California, Abigail Martinez lost custody of her daughter and a court permitted only one hour of visitation each week because Martinez did not want her daughter to begin transgender medical interventions. Tragically, her daughter took her own life after changing her name and taking cross-sex hormones. These parents are being separated from their minor children for simply protecting them from procedures known to be harmful.
CA Law Jeopardizes Parental Rights Nationwide
Things will likely get worse for parents. In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 107 into law, jeopardizing the rights of parents in and out of California. SB 107 allows minors anywhere in the United States to run away from their parents to get transgender surgery in California — and their parents can be barred from intervening.
There is no doubt SB 107 will be used as a weapon against parents. This law robs parents of their rights and gives the state of California unprecedented power over a child’s health.
The utter disrespect for parental rights is becoming a tragic cultural norm in America. And it is harming children.
Legislation to Protect Parental Rights
That’s why I introduced the Parental Right to Protect Act. This bill defends parental rights by ensuring CPS does not penalize parents for protecting their children from transgender surgery and hormones.
Parents should be able to make medical decisions for their children without fear of the government taking their children away. Allowing California to become the nation’s arbiter of parental rights would be a fatal mistake. We must stand up to the radical left and allow parents to protect their children — whether that be at school or at home.
Rep. Virginia Foxx serves North Carolina’s 5th congressional district.
there is only one answer home school
away from all the homosexual perverts
I believe Adolf’s Germany had very strictly enforced child protection laws. None of this would have been tolerated. Not just a slap on the wrist, but a few years in a labour camp. That straightens out many mental aberrations. Judges that passed illegal verdicts were not exempted.
Among other things it will also help their depopulation agenda, because so many couples are going to say they’ll not have kids they can’t protect from this degeneracy. Maybe that’s its main function; but once they have that level of control over kids, then they’ll be encouraged to denounce their parents about what they discuss, what publications they read, the films they watch, the websites they visit, who calls round etc.
A real two minutes of hate. Kids can be taught to believe decadent parents are the problem with society, who are to blame for their mental confusions all while state education purposely does this to them.
Let us Pray.
Come ON!
The World Court or the United Nations would have stepped in long time ago if they really were what they say they are.
This is a crime against humanity — as surely as germ warfare and other deadly manipulations against nature. But they ALL say nothing.
SO we’re on our own. They’re all dirty,
First of all, good for Representative Virginia Foxx for introducing sensible legislation and pushing back against the criminally insane “progressive” Jew agenda of destroying children.
I wonder if this will finally wake enough imbeciles up and be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back. I mean, the Jews and their libtard lackeys have been targeting children for dumbing-down, degradation and destruction for a few decades, but they are doing it now in such an absurdly overt manner that a lot of parents are getting genuinely pissed off. Hopefully the right-minded parents snap and start beating the ever living f*ck out of depraved school board hacks and overreaching child “protective” service whackos.
“In Indiana, a court recently upheld the removal of a child from parental custody after a CPS investigation alleged the parents were “verbally and emotionally abusing” the child when they would not use the child’s preferred pronouns or otherwise affirm the child’s desire to begin transgender medical interventions.” … That is literally criminally insane. That judge and the CPS manager deserve to be stripped naked, dragged through the streets by their ankles, get vigorously flogged, rolled in pig shit and salt, then nailed to trees and pummeled with claw hammers.
It used to be age 21 or 18 (depending on the state) when a minor is legally an adult. Now one can make life-killing choices as soon as he is registered in a nonsectarian ‘preschool’ as well as in any tax funded ‘cess school’.
The liars that be are thoroughly devoted to their talmudic antIChrist religion- but this reality is never addressed in most if not all churches for fear of the talmudists.
Americans think that because some states are this way or that they on state-rights trouncing parental rights over children that they are a “free and democratic” nation. Yet, it is the US which is leading the entire world on the push to end parental rights and propagate the view that children, and therefore, everyone, are the property of the state. There has never been a more deluded people living on planet earth than Americans. It is the nation which not only is the seat of all the UN-NWO plans for a wold government, but also the nation which hatched the Covid virus, planned and coordinated its release, and is the main pusher of the toxic Covid vaccines on the rest oft he world, as well as drugs such as heroin.
All this is 100% preventable if people just STOP REGISTERING THEIR offspring/PROPPERTY, ie, signing the birth registration.