CA has a new transgender sanctuary law, that among other things -
“It would also “prohibit the enforcement of an order based on another state’s law authorizing a child to be removed from their parent or guardian based on that parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.”
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If they can pass that, Texas can pass a kidnapper sanctuary law. Any kid kidnapped and brought back to Texas is protected, and the kidnapper also (maybe if related).
Living in California I am absolutely appalled by that law and I was curious so I went and did some research into the “full faith and credit clause” of the US Constitution that I thought would nullify it. I had made the mistake of thinking that the Constitution meant what it said in plain English but it turns out that there is a long history of it being ignored in practice, otherwise a FL CCW would have to be recognized in all 50 states.
It turns out that the Feds (and in particular the Supreme Court) have allowed the states to ignore the laws of other states for many decades now. However, they have been quite adamant about enforcing court rulings and judgements across state lines. So what explains why this alleged Dr. is getting away with this is because a TX Court has awarded her custody.
So in essence it is a TX problem. although I realize if you’re in Austin you might as well be in Marin.
I have seen that the TX Supreme Court is going to take this up, and since no divorce proceeding involving children is ever final, one hopes that they can rectify this proceeding and should they do so I relish the thought of seeing CA’s law slapped down.