In a move that’s about as evil as evil comes, the California Assembly on Friday passed a bill mandating that judges take parental “affirmation” of a child’s “gender identity” into account when making custody decisions.
Translation? If signed into law, this bill would pave the way for California courts to strip parents of custody of their own children if they fail to support a child’s “identity” - “no matter,” according to the bill’s co-sponsor, “what it is.” Specifically, the bill "would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child," effectively altering the state's definition of child abuse.
"As used in this paragraph, the health, safety, and welfare of the child includes, among other comprehensive factors, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression. Affirmation includes a range of actions and will be unique for each child, but in every case must promote the child’s overall health and well-being," the bill states, applying vague language that critics rightly say could be extrapolated to include just about anything a court - or an activist judge - decides.
The bill would also allow judges mitigating custody disputes in cases of divorce the leeway to prioritize the parent who best supports the child's gender identity, effectively punishing the parent who disagrees.
For example, the 06/09/23- Senate Judiciary bill analysis explains: “This bill clarifies that a family court, when determining the best interest of the child in a proceeding to determine custody or visitation for a child, shall consider, as part of the consideration of the health, safety, and welfare of the child, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity."
Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, who co-authored the bill with the (notably not a parent) radical leftist state Sen. Scott Wiener, openly admitted the bill is the state’s attempt to force resistant parents into “affirming” whatever their child declares themselves to be, saying that it “is our duty as parents [to] affirm our children.”
“Parents affirm their children. They have since the dawn of time. Typically it happens when their gender identity matches their biological gender. But when it doesn't, the affirmation starts to wane, and that’s what we’re dealing with here,” Wilson said.
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“Although it’s called the TGI [Transgender-Identifying] Bill, they’re not mentioned anywhere in the law. What’s mentioned in the law is the child’s gender identity and expression, and the parent’s affirmation of that, whatever it is, because that is our duty as parents: to affirm our children,” she added.
This is California State Rep. Lori Wilson, who wrote AB 957: "Parents affirm their children. Typically it happens when their gender identity matches their biological gender. But when it doesn't, the affirmation starts to wane... Our duty as parents is to affirm our children." pic.twitter.com/KP2Z9sksmp
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 8, 2023
Back in June, Wilson used the example of a 7-year-old child with gender dysphoria as a platform to accuse parents who don’t readily affirm their child’s delusion of “rejecting your child.”
Under California's AB957, a parent could lose custody for not "affirming" whatever their child believes about their gender. Here, the bill author defends this bill, using an example of a 7-year-old who announces their gender doesn't match their sex.pic.twitter.com/5iLP0H7Rb6
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) June 9, 2023
The bill has already been passed by the California Senate, meaning the only step to it becoming law is for it to be signed by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. Which, I'm sure we can all surmise, means the bill will be sporting wet ink before it makes it out of the folder.
We can only hope there's still a court somewhere in the land bold enough to overturn this clearly unconstitutional and evil insanity.