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Parents Lose Custody Of Child For Refusing To Allow Transgender Change

News Image By Jonathon Van Maren/Bridgehead.ca December 07, 2020
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This is where the "conversion therapy bans" and relentless demonization of Christian parents ends up--with children being forcibly removed from the family home. 

This has already happened in several instances, but thus far primarily in cases where one parent opposes transition and other supports it (in two ongoing cases in Canada and the U.S., the mothers are supporting--and pushing--transition while the fathers oppose it.) In Australia, it has begun as well:


An Australian magistrate ordered that a gender-confused teenage girl be removed from her home after the magistrate called the parents' refusal to allow her to 'transition' into a boy "abusive." 

Police removed the 15-year old from her home after the state children's court magistrate cited in an October protection order the girl's risk of self-harm. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly discussed suicide in online chatrooms.

The parents, who also cannot be named, objected to what they described as bullying by authorities and are in the process of appealing the decision. They deny any abuse of their daughter.

"The authorities say we will not allow her to change gender, so it's dangerous for her to come back to our house because we will mentally abuse her -- they want us to consent to testosterone treatment," the father told The Australian in a Nov. 28 report.

The parents expressed grief over the loss of their daughter, according to The Australian, and the mother said family and friends were shocked by the magistrate's order.

"Especially Australians, they just can't believe that it happens in Australia," the mother said.

The parents are asking for a second opinion before doctors move ahead in giving their daughter hormone injections and possible surgery to make her look more like a male. Lawyers representing the teenager have already filed legal action on Nov. 7 for doctors to begin 'transitioning' the female to make her look male.

The country's child protection authorities, however, have reportedly agreed to the parents' request for a second opinion, reported The Australian.

A lawyer representing the parents says that the magistrate made an error in the decision when the magistrate insisted that the ruling had, in the words of The Australian report, "nothing to do with the causes of gender dysphoria or treatment options." The lawyer filed the papers on Nov. 20.

"It's controversial because different doctors can come up with different diagnoses and different treatments, so for parents to seek a second opinion before going along with irreversible treatment is wholly appropriate," the lawyer, who also cannot be named, said.

Former political candidate Vickie Janson, a cultural conservationist and author from Melbourne, called the court's pushing of the girl toward hormones to make her look more like a male "just reckless."


"Even the lawyer can't be named (needs protection?) when representing parents who seek  'an independent psychologist to consider all possible underlying causes' ... rushing to damaging and irreversible treatments is just reckless," she commented on Facebook in a Nov. 28 post.

Trans activists are successfully persuading both politicians and judges that when faced with gender dysphoria, there are only two options: Affirmation or suicide. 

They do not explain why rates of gender dysphoria are spiking across the West; they demonize academics like Dr. Lisa Littman and Abigail Shrier who highlight the danger of this path; they celebrate permanent and irreversible physical damage as necessary transformation. 

Some trans-friendly psychologists like Dr. Wallace Wong of British Columbia have turned trans kids into a cottage industry--Wong has actually been caught advising children to threaten suicide as a way of blackmailing their parents into accepting treatment they think might harm their children.

Conversion therapy is not only legal, it is encouraged. If you wish to persuade a boy or girl not to "transition" or "convert" to the opposite sex, progressives are calling that "conversion therapy." 

But if you are encouraging them to take these steps, that is not conversion therapy. Get in line, or they might come for your kids. Got it?

Originally published at The Bridgehead - reposted with permission.




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