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.
Fight or flight. I would definitely go with flight and encourage anyone open to reason to do likewise. But it's Washington state. The liberals will stay until the lights go out.
Remember, the overriding narrative is to leave these “medical decisions” completely to the PARENTS and doctors to determine what is right for their child.
That didn’t last long, did it?
Yes, permanent lobotomies, with lead.
This effectively has destroyed parental rights in this state.
The LGBQT… have achieved their goal of undermining the family unit and the foundation of any community, state and nation.
They will also have achieved their goal of depopulating the USA as these children and teens will never be able to reproduce and their family line will end with them.
Which also means that the adult/ working/ tax paying population will begin to decrease in WA state and the amount of taxes collected will fall, and that will lead to ever increasing taxes for the folks who are left in this state.
If I still had small children at home, I’d be packing up and leaving this state as fast as I can.
This is what happens when people no longer want to know who the real God is and what he has done for us through his son Jesus to free us from our sins.
“This legislation ensures that our trans youth have safe options and access to secure, stable shelter when they may not be welcome at home.”
= = =
‘Not welcome at home’ = lies
Just like the pregnant girls being told, ‘You parents will not approve, don’t tell them, etc.’
Exactly; this is a textbook example of what is called “reprobation”; it is spiritual psychopathy and the clinical description is found in Rom.1:18-32 and II Tim. 3:1-4.
The only way to protect your kids is to leave that reprobate state and not look back.
Remember Lot’s wife.
Transterrorism: How many years have Trans Killers/Transterrorists been killing innocent Americans, w/o any real public disclosure on the identity of those Killers/Transterrorists from our media/fbi/local leos???:
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Transgender teacher is removed from school after threatening to ‘shoot some students’ days after seeing social media posts discussing her sexual orientation: Police remove three firearms and ammunition from her home.
Daily Mail UK ^ | April 17, 2023 | Miriam Kuepper
Posted on 4/17/2023, 11:12:49 AM by Morgana
The teacher from Florida, who uses she/her pronouns has been removed from a classroom int he Hernando School District (HSD) and police have seized three firearms and ammunition from her home.
The Fox Chapel Middle School teacher is allegedly transgender and recently learned of a social media post discussing her sexual orientation, negatively.
Again: For how many years have Trans Killers been killing innocent Americans, w/o any full public disclosure on the real identity/intent of those Trans Killers via our media/fbi/local leos???:
Weeks ago a tranny shot up a school! Now, when a tranny with the means to do so threatens to shoot students, the FBI is investigating Latin Catholic services.
#45 posted on 4/17/2023, 12:07:50 PM by TrumpetteNJ
It use to be suicidal people would just off themselves and leave this world quietly. “Nowadays many of them seek to get as much attention as possible by taking as many people as possible with them. Our whole society has become sick.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144584/posts?page=18#18
#18 posted on 4/10/2023, 9:55:52 AM by jimwatx
The democrats just keep stirring the pot with their “woke” rhetoric. Kamala Harris should be impeached for her seditious “call to action” Nashville speech. They are hoping to entitle mentally unstable suicidal Trans misfit killers to murder as many as possible, then blame the guns.
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