Posted on 04/13/2023 9:11:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington State Senate passed a sweeping law on Thursday that permits juveniles to undergo transgender surgery without parental consent. This is how the Washington Senate Democrats describe the law, SB 5599, in a press release.
Under current law, licensed shelters must notify parents if a child comes into their care, unless a compelling reason applies. This legislation allows licensed shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in lieu of parents in certain additional instances, like when a young person is seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care.
“We know that young people experiencing homelessness are exposed to dangerous and harmful outcomes. That is why we must take every step we can to ensure their safety,” Sen. Liias said. “This legislation ensures that our trans youth have safe options and access to secure, stable shelter when they may not be welcome at home.”
The need for SB 5599 comes as states across the country introduce and pass anti-LGBTQ legislation. According to the ACLU, 452 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced across 45 states and 29 bills have passed in 14 different states.
Yes, you read that right. A kid claiming to be transgender can run away from home, go to a shelter, and the shelter is not required to tell the parents the kid is safe.
Legislation to protect transgender and at-risk youth seeking gender-affirming or reproductive care passed the House yesterday! SB 5599 affirms that trans youth are protected in Washington state by removing barriers to safe shelter.
#WALeg pic.twitter.com/rlkj7MpvjI— Sen. Marko Liias (@SenMarkoLiias) April 13, 2023
It will now go to the Washington House of Representatives, where it will quickly pass, and to a willing governor for signing into law.
Charitably, this is an abomination and is part of a multi-year effort by Washington Democrats to encourage juveniles to have life-altering surgery, a surgery that is so risky that both Sweden’s and UK’s public health bureaucracies have stopped performing it (see As Parents’ Rights Becomes a Hot Issue the Groomer Community Goes Nuts Fighting to Control Your Kids).
Last year, via SB 5889, Washington Democrats forced insurers to cover gender dysphoria treatment and gender-affirming care for minors between 13 and 17, without parental consent. It mandates that insurers deal directly with the patient without requiring the policyholder’s authorization.
It builds on SB 5904, which provides outpatient mental health treatment without parental consent for the same age group.
All communication must go directly to the patient. The insurer may not disclose the patient’s medical information to outside parties, like the policyholder, unless given permission. The policyholder, in this case, is the parent.
The standard of care for gender dysphoria in youth is outlined by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). It includes everything from puberty-blocking hormones and speech therapy, to laser hair removal and counseling on binding. But it also asks doctors to affirm the choice of some to undergo surgical procedures to help them match their gender identity.
Here is KTTH’s Jason Rantz talking about the bill and how it fits into what the Washington Democrats are doing.
This law effectively strips the parent of their rights, allows a minor to make an irreversible surgical decision without the ability to give informed consent, makes the parents pay for it, and dumps the whole dumpster fire of emotional, psychological, and financial impacts back them to deal with as best they can.
Attorney Maria Medvin observes on Twitter:
This is unconstitutional in my opinion. How does this law resolve against SCOTUS opinions?
Santosky v. Kramer: “The fundamental liberty interest of natural parents in the care, custody, and management of their child.”
Prince v. Massachusetts (1944): “it is cardinal with us that… https://t.co/JJrl8why0o
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 13, 2023
This is unconstitutional in my opinion. How does this law resolve against SCOTUS opinions?
Santosky v. Kramer: “The fundamental liberty interest of natural parents in the care, custody, and management of their child.”
Prince v. Massachusetts (1944): “it is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.”
Troxel v. Granville: “the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children— is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.”
Pierce v. Society of Sisters: “the child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”
If you want to look for models of totalitarian regimes using the power of the state to insinuate themselves between parents and their children, you don’t have to search very far. Hitler’s Germany and the communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba all used — and except for the USSR, continue to use state —coercion to establish ownership over children. This should not be acceptable behavior by any state, and the people who voted for it need to be held personally to account in this world before the Almighty gets His crack at them in the next.
Leave. Just leave tomorrow.
Violence only solution
Any child who takes advantage of this law should be disowned by their former parents.
I predict numerous cases of juvenile Buyer’s Regret.
Kids who think they are Trans, when all they are is rebellious, will run to Washington.
The kids may consider themselves emancipated from
‘bigoted, pestering, super-nosy parents’, until they realize all they have given up.
The ongoing pain of ‘affirming procedures’ and the inconclusive nature of their pursuit will lead many to frustration, dissatisfaction and a sense of having been betrayed by their new caregivers: Government brand health care and social programs. Take a number, you may have a long wait to see the providers of care that you really need.
And the suicide rate will probably go up when these kids find out none of the what they do is reversible later on.
I’m sad for them. There are some parts of life that can be simulated and approximated, but it’s not the same.
Part of the joy within certain life experiences is the organic or spontaneous or involuntary part of it.
Parents of Washington State, unless you want to chance your child being kidnapped by the state, I suggest you pull up stakes and move asap. These people are serious and will send your child for transgender counseling and surgery if they even show the slightest interest in wearing the clothes normally worn by the opposite sex, or come to school with their hair in a different style than usual. Children enjoy being made to feel special and the grooming transgender crowd are good at playing on those feeling.
You have been forewarned. Take such warnings seriously.
Mutilators gonna mutilate.
Population control.
Every time I hear or read the term “trans kid,” I wonder - what the hell is a “trans kid?!” Sounds like a victim of child exploitation or grooming. What else could it be? Our culture is so sick . . .
Such insanity
Probably why the Washington State Senate just passed an “Assault Weapons Ban” that goes back to the House (tomorrow?) and then to be sent to the Governor (Inslee) who will sign it and it will become active immediately due to his “emergency powers” granted to him because of Covid I believe.
It will ban all sales of all sorts of semi-auto weapons immediately. So far, we can keep them, and you can pass them down ONCE to an heir, but the heir can’t pass them down. I have no idea where they will end up when that heir passes away.
Typical of the Washington Stassi State meets the Soviet Your Child Belongs to the State plan. Long live Adolf and Vladimir.
Washington state is so concerned about children’s rights, they’ll be legalizing child sex next.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1:28-32)
Teacher 'Removed' After Having Students Pledge LGBTQ Flag Over 'Uncomfortable' U.S. Flag. 8/30/21
A California teacher has been "removed from the classroom" after posts on social media showed she encouraged students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride banner instead of a U.S. flag, which had been missing from the classroom. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District confirmed to Newsweek the teacher is no longer instructing classes while the district continues to investigate the incident.... In a video shared to Twitter on Friday, Pitzen described how her students have the option to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in her English class. "I always tell my class, stand if you feel like it, don't stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, you don't have to say the words," Pitzen said in the viral video. "So my class decided to stand, but not say the words. Totally fine."
In another now-deleted video, Pitzen showed her decorated classroom for Pride month with various flags. "I pledge allegiance to the queers," she said in the video.- https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-removed-after-having-students-pledge-lgbtq-flag-over-uncomfortable-us-flag-1624350
Evergreen State College Ideology for a small investment of $150K. And you can be a protesting victim for life
“...reproductive health services or gender-affirming care.”
Never use the other side’s euphemisms.
They aren’t going to stop. There will never be enough. We all know what has to be done.
This is evil. No way around it. Beyond that, it cannot possibly be legal in any way in the USA. Not even in a libtard state.
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