On July 16, Elon Musk retweeted a post on X (formerly Twitter) noting that California Governor Gavin Newsom had just signed AB1955, a bill banning public schools from informing parents if their children wanted to transition. “The state will take away your kids in California,” he wrote.
Musk was immediately attacked as a liar and a fearmonger – even Newsom and notorious LGBT legislator Scott Wiener responded to him. It has since become clear that the issue of gender ideology is a deeply personal one for Musk – he told Jordan Peterson that he was “essentially tricked” into signing off on puberty blockers for one his older sons, Xavier:
But it is important to note that Musk is, unfortunately, not exaggerating. Children are in fact being removed from the homes of their parents after being sucked into the gender cult – or as Musk calls it, captured by the “woke mind virus.” On July 26, the Daily Mailreported that a military family lost custody of their autistic son after they refused to “transition” him. The family stated that their son had no desire to become a girl until he was hospitalized for a suicide attempt after “a bitter breakup with his girlfriend in 2021.”
It was a fateful hospital visit. Staff at Children’s National Hospital told the boy’s family that he wanted to be a girl and that he now used female pronouns. The army veteran parents, who hailed from Prince George County, Maryland, stated that the boy was very “impressionable” due to his autism and have alleged that the hospital began a “full-on campaign to transgender this child” and the staff of “mental-re-programming,” including their son being “forced to write letters to his friends disavowing his previous male identity.”
Children’s National Hospital used emergency policies to keep the boy in one of their units for 41 days, reported his parents to child protection services, and had him moved into foster care, where he has resided since. The parents, who are African American, are suing the hospital – and had to sell their business and four-bedroom family home to do so. “This has been devastating. It has drained so much money, there is no money left,” the father told the Mail. “It changed our entire way of life, with the loss of a child and then with the loss of our income.” The family is asking for up to $100 million in damages and their legal costs.
The parents believe their son – now 19 – is living with Lavender Kelley, the D.C. hospital’s “non-gendered chaplain” and a transgender activist who has stated that he supports transitioning children without their parents’ consent. According to the Mail:
The suit adds that, since being removed from the care of his parents, the youngster has appeared in provocative and sexually suggestive poses on Instagram. It is unclear whether the 19-year-old has received any sex change treatments like feminizing hormones or gender reassignment surgery.
The lawsuit, filed in Maryland District Court, accuses the Children’s National Hospital of “eight counts including negligence, inflicting intentional emotional distress and discriminating against someone based on their religion.” They are asking for trial by jury.
There are many such cases currently unfolding. As Alliance Defending Freedom International reported earlier this month, a teenage girl has been separated from her parents, who live in Geneva, Switzerland, for over a year for the same reason – they objected to her undergoing a sex change. “The case, currently unfolding in Swiss courts, centres on parents who responded to the mental health struggles of their daughter, who expressed gender confusion, with care and support, including obtaining mental health care for her,” ADF reported.
Concerned that their daughter was being pushed to make hasty and potentially irreversible decisions, they declined ‘puberty blockers’ and explicitly rejected her school’s attempt to ‘socially transition’ her. The school disregarded the parents’ explicit demand.
For seeking to protect the health and wellbeing of their daughter, they now face a legal stand-off over their fundamental rights as parents to care for their child who, residing in a government shelter, is being encouraged to pursue dangerous medical interventions to ‘transition.’ For safety reasons and to protect their children, the parents are speaking anonymously. The father said: ‘The story is truly a nightmare. Swiss authorities have taken our child, our daughter, who’s 16 years old.’
‘My daughter now lives in a government home. Our access to her is regulated by the government.’ The parents added: ‘I can’t believe we live in a society where your child can be taken away from you simply for trying to protect her.’
‘We want our daughter back home. We love her and we miss her,’ the girl’s mother pleaded.
It is stories like this – as well as his own experience – that have caused Elon Musk to make the decision to pull out of California. California is a dangerous place for families.
To have your child removed from your home because you object to their undergoing a sex change – treatments that are banned in countries like the United Kingdom – must be a special kind of hell. To know your child is likely undergoing “treatments” that will irreversibly damage their bodies while being prevented from stopping this harm by the government, which has labeled you a child-abuser, is enough to make a normal person go insane.
