Posted on 05/30/2017 9:36:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Minnesota mother against her teenage child along with school officials and healthcare providers on the grounds that they violated her parental rights by treating her son with a hormone therapy to start transitioning into a girl even though he hadn't been granted court approval to be legally emancipated from his parents.
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul A. Magnuson dismissed the suit this week, saying Anmarie Calgaro's claim was "meritless," according to the StarTribune.
Calgaro filed the suit, with the help of lawyers from the Thomas More Society last November, against St. Louis County, the St. Louis County School District, the county's Health and Human Services, Fairview Health Services and Park Nicollet Health Services, accusing the parties of usurping her parental rights by granting her 17-year-old son de-facto emancipation from his mother even though a court never awarded his son legal emancipation.
Her son will turn 18 this summer.
The lawsuit challenged a state law that allows minors to access medical care and procedures without their parent's consent.
Although the emancipation has no legal standing in court and the St. Louis County District Court ruled in January that the child could not even change his legal name without parental permission, the school district, the department of health and human services and the medical providers all treated Calgaro's son as if he was legally emancipated from his mother and wouldn't give Calgaro any access to his records or decision-making ability in regards to his health or education.
Moreover, she was not consulted before the St. Louis County Public Health and Human Services paid for Park Nicollet Minneapolis Gender Services to give the boy hormone replacement treatment and Fairview Health Services to provide him with narcotics.
The mother's lawyer, Erick Kaardal, was quoted as saying that Calgaro is considering an appeal. He also maintained that the agencies' actions constituted a form of "administrative emancipation" that violated the mother's parental rights. "On the legislative front, people on the left and on the right believed that emancipation procedures in Minnesota should be put in statutes and codified," he said. "But until then, it's confusing and the court's decision hasn't cleared up that confusion."
The lawyer earlier explained, "Under the judicial website, you will see that the court says that if you are a teenager, you can file a common law petition for emancipation. That's fine. But here, J.D.K. (as the son was named in the lawsuit) didn't need that court petition for emancipation because the governmental agencies here — the school district, the county, other state agencies — just treated him as emancipated anyway. So, if there had been a court order on emancipation, then Anmarie would have received a notice of opportunity to be heard. But here, because of the way the county operates, the way state operates, the way the school district operates, the way the medical providers operate, Anmarie doesn't have any right to notice to be heard in court."
Calgaro earlier said, "I believe my constitutional civil rights to have my case heard in a court of law has been stripped from me. If this had been a child custody case, I would have had my day in court. If my son were being placed in foster care, I would have had my day in court. Or if he had been referred to child protection, I would have had my day in court.
"I am firmly committed to what is best for me son. I am his mother and he has always been and always will be welcome in our home," she added. "As a mother, I know his physical and emotional needs in a way no one else can. I also have a commitment to him that no one else has. I feel that not only was I robbed of the opportunity to help and guide my son make good decisions but I also feel that he was robbed of a key advocate in his life — his mother."
He is not getting ‘Medical Care’ he is getting state sponsored ‘mutilation and mind altering drugs’.
“As a mother, I know his physical and emotional needs in a way no one else can....
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She better watch out.
The Govt. will inject her to turn her into his father.
Look at that - first reply is the best reply.
Disown the kid.
So the state can not only brainwash your child but perform radical invasive medical treatments to fundamentally change them.
Yes, every parent should just turn their children over to the state, because family means nothing. /s
“de-facto emancipation”
A lot of things are done that way these days, ignore the law when it’s inconvenient or incompatible with one’s beliefs.
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Sounds like a case in which Government bureaucrats and Judges ought to be hung from lamp posts with Piano wires.
Good grief, dear mother, get a different doctor.
When a child is this disobedient, he should be disowned. That may wake up some of these transgenders who are swept up in this fad that could destroy their lives. A parent cannot stand by and watch their child mutilate his/her body with no consequences to their relationship.
Freakin wrong and wonder if any of these asshats will step forward if he should need counseling later in life or commits suicide as a result of their unlawful actions, which would make them culpable like bullies are today....
The boy is being used as a guinea pig. This whole gender-mixing disaster, at its root, is merely another form of rebellion against God.
They must live in Duluth. Anywhere else in the county the boy will get run off into the woods.
What happens in 10 years if the MAN realizes he made a mistake, can he hold these administrators responsible??
Doubt it.
Somehow we skipped a beat and bypassed bizarro world I and II and moved directly to III
How far we have come.
I remember as a kid going to the store and buying my old mans cigarettes and beer and no eyebrows were raised.
We knew better than to ‘fake’ it as the clerk would virtually keep a record of all your ‘stops’ and check it out with the old man (Better hope HE remembers all the times you went)
Go into a gas station and sign on the pump says must be 16 or 17 ?? to pump gas.
Hell, when kids that is all we were ‘good’ for beer runs, carrying groceries in for your mother, pump gas in car and whatever trivial forms of ‘torture’ they would pile on with.
So today my 15 year old son can’t put gas in his mothers car BUT my 14 year old daughter can get an abortion and my minor son/daughter can get a sex change?????
Think it was Judge Judy that said..
I AM GLAD THAT I AM OLD. I WON’T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS IDIOCY MUCH LONGER....
AND if she didn’t, I will semi second the motion
But it occurred to me one day that my role as a Father to my kids is similar to that of the Heavenly Father towards us. We know from Scripture that God never gives up on us, no matter what we do, so I now try to remember that with my own kids.
I suppose that argument only works if you are a Christian, though.
Imagine if the state had convinced a kid it’s better to be heterosexual, or to embrace white culture instead of black culture? Heads would certainly roll.
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