Posted on 03/17/2022 11:31:37 AM PDT by TedMartin
An immigrant mother living in Los Angeles has revealed publicly that her 16-year-old daughter killed herself after public school employees, doctors and the courts fed the troubled teen lies about her identity.
This progressive ideology promoted by legislative leaders, that one’s gender is separate from biological sex, is driving some mentally struggling teens to despair and leading many others to destroy their reproductive systems with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
California teachers, gender counselors and judges tell parents that affirming their child’s self-perception without question is the only way to truly help their gender dysphoric child. The price for doubting a child’s self-diagnosis is steep.
El Salvador immigrant Abigail Martinez found that out the hard way. She told her heartbreaking story last week of losing custody of her transitioning daughter at a Heritage Foundation event in Washington D.C. (video).
In anguish, she revealed through tears for the first time publicly how the state paid for her teen’s transitioning drugs, but instead of helping her, it only increased her daughter’s mental distress.
Abigail’s daughter began showing signs of depression in middle school and then attended meetings and “support” groups for gender-confused children in high school. Not long after attending these groups, she told her mother that she felt like she was a boy.
A psychologist and LGBT group began working with Abigail’s daughter and told Child Family Services (CFS) that she would be better off out of the house. They incentivized her to leave home by telling her that the state would pay for her gender “transition” if she did.
CFS took her from Abigail at just 16-years-old. When they appeared in court, Abigail was told she could visit her daughter one hour a week as long as she didn’t talk to her daughter about God or encourage her to come home.
The LGBT group urged Abigail’s daughter to undergo a medical gender “transition,” and despite Abigail’s objections, doctors began administering hormone therapy. Abigail begged doctors to instead conduct a psychological evaluation and treat her daughter’s mental problems.
"This is not going to make my daughter better,” she told them. “If you want to help my daughter, help her with her mental health. Help her from the inside out.” The doctors refused her request.
Tragically, Abigail’s daughter ended up taking her own life by kneeling in front of a train with her hands raised in the air.
“No mother should ever have to go through the indescribable pain that Abigail did. She was completely denied her parental rights and could have prevented her daughter’s death had doctors and the state only listened to her,” the California Family Council said in a statement.
“Abigail’s story demonstrates the direction that California is headed. There are numerous mothers and fathers dealing with similar situations who are afraid to speak about it publicly. The state is prioritizing dangerous gender ideology over parental rights and the health and well-being of children.”
Greg Burt is Director of Capitol Engagement for the California Family Council.
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A MOTHER grieving for what the STATE did to her own daughter. Honestly, her immigration status is irrelevant. It could be your own granddaughter.
Porn addicted fathers also cause a lot of harm. Girls grow up hating men or hating themselves because of their father’s sin.
If she had stayed where she belonged, it wouldn't have happened, would it?
She committed a crime and now something bad happened.
What was the first step in that process and who took it?
Candidates for public office should really call this out for being barbaric. just sayin’
God doesn’t care.
I am increasingly reminded of the 1980s-90s “Day Care Abuse” and the similar ‘experts’ who aided & abetted that crime on children. Remember “repressed memory syndrome” and those experts PROCLAIMING that toddlers & young children can be accurate reporters of abuse?
Nationwide, it appeared that there was an epidemic of child abuse with each subsequent report worse than the ones previously. In fact it almost appeared that the investigators were competing to find horrors! And, for them, why not? It was THE PATH to success as demonstrated by Clinton’s (3rd) choice for Attorney General, Janet Reno, of Miami-Dade in Florida!
Also worth remembering, The Salem Witch Trials and its innumerable predecessors in Europe! The Anti-Jewish attacks in the Black Plague because they were a convenient scapegoat!
CFS took her from Abigail at just 16-years-old. When they appeared in court, Abigail was told she could visit her daughter one hour a week as long as she didn’t talk to her daughter about God or encourage her to come home.
There is the agenda. They want to destroy God. Not wise at all.
Well, we already know what ditch the other side will die in: Roe vs. Wade.
If there are more than two genders an gender is independent of sex, then why does changing gender ever involve invasive procedures to make the subjects body resemble the opposite of the two sexes? Would not such alterations have nothing to do with gender?
When I became a grandfather, I learned that grandchildren are one of the greatest joys in life. If these transgender goons have their way, a lot of young people will never be grandparents.
Disgusting.
This is pure insanity. Why can it not be called what it is?
AND THAT INCLUDES THE INSANE, ABSURD ENABLERS!
Get a rope.
Transvestism (PC/woke these days “cross-dressing”, strangely) is not good enough.
You have to go “all the way” - and be a transsexual (PC/woke “transgender” though they try to make it a catch-all for both).
Sure He do.
He's got Him a border between heaven & hell, don't He?
Don't allow no illegal crossings, does He?
How much longer will Kalipornia be allowed to head in this direction? Maybe the only hope for the state resides in the San Andreas Fault!
SPJNK.
If there is ever going to be public executions, here’s a good place to start.
“Abigail’s daughter began showing signs of depression in middle school and then attended meetings and “support” groups for gender-confused children in high school.”
If you ever see a sign of this happening with your kids, the only recourse is to just pack up and move to a red state where the government won’t support this stuff. Otherwise the whole apparatus of the schools, the courts, and the government will be turned against you.
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