On Thursday, the Health and Human Services committee of the South Dakota House
killed a bill that would have protected the right of parents to refuse to consent to medical or psychological treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment "would induce, confirm, or promote the child's belief that the child's sex or gender identity is different from the child's sex presented at birth." Proposed House Bill 1205 also provided that "no public authority or official of this state may take any adverse action against a parent for exercising this right."
That such a simple affirmation of parental rights could not clear a committee in this solidly red state should terrify parents, as it lays bare transgender activists' plan:
use the government to force parents to affirm a false sex for their child, agree to hormone blockers, and accept a transition to their son or daughter's preferred gender. If parents refuse? Removal of the child from the family, due to alleged medical neglect.
We are already seeing the first two waves of this strategy, according to Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians. The first wave began in 2016 in the divorce and child custody setting, Cretella explained.
"I first began hearing from distraught parents in this situation in 2016 and in 2017, I heard from seven families in as many different states in this situation.
In all but one case the child was a 15 year-old girl who never had any sexual identity confusion prior to her parent's divorce," Cretella said. "The other case involved
4-year-old triplet boys whose mother desperately wanted a girl. The mother was a psychologist herself and had cross-dressed one of the boys for two years, insisting that it was his idea.
In each of the seven cases the guardian ad litems and judges removed the right to medical consent and/or custody from the parent who objected to transition with puberty blockers and hormones."
Comment: It's hard not to think there is a hidden agenda behind this movement. Trans activists are either convinced of their own 'compassion', or simply use it as a mask to fulfill that other agenda. The fact is, most kids grow out of gender dysphoria, especially if it is of the rapid onset type (which is itself a social contagion, having nothing to do with a deep-seated conviction that they were born in the wrong body). So why are these activists so hell-bent on getting these kids to have irreversible surgery and having them removed from their parents?