Posted on 10/01/2021 6:32:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
With so much happening in the news every day, from the congressional hearings on our withdrawal from Afghanistan to the budget crisis and more, it’s easy to overlook some of the truly horrendous things taking place in our nation. But what California’s Governor Newsom recently signed into law cannot be overlooked. It is nothing less than a frontal assault on parental rights, also hurting the very children it claims to protect.
Although there were two controversial bills Gov. Newsom signed last week, we’ll focus here on AB 1184.
As reported by California Family Council, this bill “prohibits insurance companies from revealing to the policyholder the ‘sensitive’ services of anyone on their policy, including minor children, even though the policy owner is financially responsible for the services. These ‘sensitive’ services include abortions, sexual assault treatment, drug abuse and mental health treatment, cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-change operations. In California, minors can consent to all of these sensitive treatments, except for sex-change surgeries, after the age of 12 under certain conditions, and consent to abortions at any age.”
Perhaps you want to read that again? Not a word is exaggerated or misreported. This is exactly what this bill entails. Yet for Newsom and other California leftists, this is a cause for celebration.
Talk about turning the world upside down. Talk about calling good evil and evil good. Talk about undermining families.
But let’s not think in abstract terms. Let’s be concrete and specific.
Not only can your 13-year-old child make radical, life-altering decisions. such as having an abortion, without your knowledge or consent. That would be bad enough. But your child can use your family insurance policy to pay for that abortion, and when your insurance statement comes, there will be no explanation of services.
In fact, your insurance provider will be prohibited from disclosing to you what your own child has done and what your policy has covered. And this is now the law in California.
Should we feel anything less than outrage? And who gave the government such intrusive, potentially destructive powers?
Your minor child can actually choose to get treated with cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers, drugs which can have disastrous lifelong consequences, without possibly being able to understand the implications of what they’re doing, and by law, you cannot find out about it.
Your child doesn’t have to tell you. The doctors don’t have to tell you. And your insurers don’t have to tell you.
To say it again, this is an absolutely indefensible outrage.
Listen to the words of Grace Lidinsky-Smith, writing in Newsweek June 25. “In my early 20s,” she says, “I became depressed and gender dysphoric after years of obsessing over identity issues. Finally, I thought I saw my route forward: the total transformation of medical transition, to live as a man.”
And note carefully: she was in her early 20s when she made these fateful decision, not a teenager, let alone a 12-year-old.
She continues, “I had the most supportive possible environment for transitioning: easy access to hormones, an affirming community and insurance coverage. What I didn't have was a therapist who could help me scrutinize the underlying issues I had before I undertook serious medical decisions. Instead, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and given the green light to start transition by my doctor on the first visit.”
Stories like this are all too common these days, leading to a growing number of “detransitioners” and a growing pushback against the rush to “transition” young people.
Lidinsky-Smith then describes the process: “I started my transformation with cross-sex hormones injections. Four months later, I had my breasts removed in the masculinizing surgical procedure known as ‘top surgery.’ The day I got my first testosterone shot, I wept with joy. I thought I had discovered my path to self-actualization as a transgender man.
“One year later, I would be curled in my bed, clutching my double-mastectomy scars and sobbing with regret.”
And, she says candidly, “I wondered desperately how I could have been so wrong about something so important. I knew people who were very happy with their changes. But it all went wrong for me.
“My gender dysphoria, which I had taken as proof that I was truly meant to live as male, turned out to stem from other mental health issues. My change had been a brutal mistake, and I would have to live with the consequences—numb scars, no breasts, a deepened voice—for the rest of my life.”
Tragically, she is now one of many young women with similar stories. (Many young men have their horror stories too.)
Yet now, in California, she could have embarked on this self-destructive journey as a young minor, starting with puberty blockers and/or cross-sex hormones, completely cutting her parents out of the process, with the law on her side. And when her parents began to wonder what was happening to their daughter, there was no way they could find out – by law.
And if she decided to have her breasts removed – irreversibly – at the age of 19, California, with the help of your own insurance company, would have her covered. Parents, you could be in for a very big surprise one day!
And let’s not forget about other “sensitive” services, such as “sexual assault treatment, drug abuse and mental health treatment.”
Here, too, it is utterly outrageous for parents to be locked out of such critical situations, yet it is now the law, and Gov. Newsom and his colleagues are celebrating.
I urge every parent in California to get as involved in your children’s lives as you possibly can – I mean that in the most positive, helpful, and healthy ways, not in oppressive and overbearing ways.
I encourage you to cultivate honesty and transparency. To make your kids feel safer with you than with any of their peers or other elders. And to work tirelessly until this legislation is overthrown.
The light can still drive out the darkness.
Yeah because those 2 democrats totally were honestly elected, just like how Newsom totally survived the recall and there was no cheating at all.....
The Democrats want to be your parents and take away parental rights from maternal parents.
So the consumer has absolutely no right to an explanation of benefits?
There are so many things wrong with this idea that it makes my hair hurt!
Hotel California never changes
So what’s next, now that they have destroyed all parental bonds? “euthanasia” without telling the parents?
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Maybe the kid can get an order for the eithanasia of their parents?
The “groomer protection act.”
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Hey all you black females and white suburban soccer moms . . .
But The Donald just mean-tweeted too much, huh
Decades ago people in Virginia saw the growing blob in Northern Virginia and realized what would happen. Gradually it became so large that it dominated state politics and flipped Virginia (probably) permanently blue. NOVA is Virginia’s Chicago.
there is only one small problem with this new law, the parent has the insurance card only, no child is issued one unless its medicaid(medi-cal)
Why are you staying?
How so? As you can guess, I haven’t read it.
My doctor’s office only asks to see the insurance card once a year.
I have elderly relatives here who will never leave.
California descends into a state of total anarchy. In the end of the book (after Dagny Taggart has gone on strike) her secretary Eddie Willers meets his death trying to reestablish a transcontinental railroad into California.
My roommate Mr K finally read Atlas Shrugged at my urging, after years of being like “NO! NEVER! I WILL NEVER READ THAT BOOK!” I bought him a copy and he started reading it and he read the entire thing. He still raves about it. Yeah, we’re boring.
if you are a new patient you need to show the card, and if kids are going to be taken to who know where.. services can not be paid, just another screw up by the state of cali goverment
So what’s stopping a ‘sex-change’ doc from billing a bunch of insurers for random kids’ hormones or whatever?
Who’s gonna dispute the charges? Parents can’t, they can’t be told why their deductible was hit so quick. Lucky them. Insurance can’t, there’s no parents to dispute the charges, so as far as they know it’s legit. Doc won’t care, he’ s getting $$ from insurance, so there’s no need to deal with parents. Politicians won’t care, they’ll celebrate that 120% of CA’s youth are now ‘transgender’.
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