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Teen commits suicide after state of California pushes her into transgenderism
Press California ^ | 3/17/22 | Greg Burt

Posted on 03/17/2022 11:31:37 AM PDT by TedMartin

Daughter taken from mom, who was banned from talking about God

By Greg Burt

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.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; california; cfs; cps; doublestandard; education; family; homosexualagenda; transgender
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To: humblegunner

If specified, it will be legal.

If not specified...


21 posted on 03/17/2022 11:52:54 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: humblegunner

A MOTHER grieving for what the STATE did to her own daughter. Honestly, her immigration status is irrelevant. It could be your own granddaughter.


22 posted on 03/17/2022 11:53:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.” ~ Jerry Rice)
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To: Antoninus

Porn addicted fathers also cause a lot of harm. Girls grow up hating men or hating themselves because of their father’s sin.


23 posted on 03/17/2022 11:56:06 AM PDT by dragonblustar (2 Peter 2:14,1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Honestly, her immigration status is irrelevant.

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?

24 posted on 03/17/2022 11:58:23 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: dragonblustar

Candidates for public office should really call this out for being barbaric. just sayin’


25 posted on 03/17/2022 12:00:04 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconceptions.)
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To: humblegunner

God doesn’t care.


26 posted on 03/17/2022 12:02:52 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: TedMartin

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!


27 posted on 03/17/2022 12:04:42 PM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: TedMartin
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.

28 posted on 03/17/2022 12:06:52 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: GingisK

Well, we already know what ditch the other side will die in: Roe vs. Wade.


29 posted on 03/17/2022 12:07:08 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: TedMartin

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?


30 posted on 03/17/2022 12:08:41 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: stinkerpot65
The tranny crowd is no different than the gay crowd. They don't get enough recruits naturally, so they must aggressively proselytize.
31 posted on 03/17/2022 12:09:49 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: TedMartin

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.


32 posted on 03/17/2022 12:10:10 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: TedMartin

Disgusting.

This is pure insanity. Why can it not be called what it is?

AND THAT INCLUDES THE INSANE, ABSURD ENABLERS!


33 posted on 03/17/2022 12:12:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: TedMartin

Get a rope.


34 posted on 03/17/2022 12:14:14 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: AndyTheBear

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).


35 posted on 03/17/2022 12:14:30 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: bigdaddy45
God doesn’t care.

Sure He do.

He's got Him a border between heaven & hell, don't He?

Don't allow no illegal crossings, does He?

36 posted on 03/17/2022 12:15:11 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: TedMartin
“Abigail's story demonstrates the direction that California is headed…

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!

37 posted on 03/17/2022 12:15:24 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: FreeperCell; RatRipper

SPJNK.


38 posted on 03/17/2022 12:17:14 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: HighSierra5

If there is ever going to be public executions, here’s a good place to start.


39 posted on 03/17/2022 12:17:18 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: TedMartin

“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.


40 posted on 03/17/2022 12:18:22 PM PDT by Boogieman
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