Posted on 07/30/2026 4:04:38 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Christian mom and her husband are fighting back in court after Oregon’s Department of Human Services determined that they caused “mental injury” to her daughter by refusing to “affirm” her transgender identity.
“It has destroyed our lives,” Nicole Calaway, the mother of two daughters who are now estranged because they both claim a transgender identity, told the Daily Signal in an interview Sunday.
Child Protective Services took custody of her then-15-year-old daughter, K.A., on July 18, 2024, one day after Calaway and K.A. terminated the services of K.A.’s therapist, Jennifer Forster. According to court documents, Forster filed the complaint that resulted in K.A.’s removal.
ODHS notified the Calaways that the agency considered them “responsible for the mental injury” of K.A. “Your adverse reactions to [K.A.] expressing their gender identity have caused serious harm to [K.A.’s] psychological functioning,” ODHS caseworker Rachel Woods wrote in a Sept. 13 letter.
Calaway’s older daughter had already moved out.
“I was so distraught, it felt like I was gutted,” the mother said. “Both my daughters were gone. I took myself to the hospital and admitted myself for a week because I couldn’t handle it.”
The mother remains estranged from her daughters, and Oregon has ordered her not to contact K.A. Yet the state’s findings haven’t just affected her maternal relationship.
The “mental injury” finding constitutes a child abuse ruling on Calaway’s permanent record, and on the record of her husband, David. The stigma of a state agency finding the two guilty of child abuse has followed them across state lines after their move to Florida in July 2025.
“In Oregon, if they were to do a background check, I could have lost my notary license, I still cannot—even here—volunteer with the church, anything to do with children,” the mother told the Daily Signal.
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Where is a good millstone when you need one?
they need to sue the state.
They need to have moved out of Oregon - yesterday.
Don’t wait for your family to be destroyed.
What took them so long
Let me see if I have this right. Their child was taken away from them because they caused mental harm by not affirming their child’s mental disorder?
Oregon has been a hellscape for at least a decade. WHY were they there? No sympathy.
Must be the end times, at least in Oregon and the blue states
Good will be called evil, and evil will be called good
This is what happens when you send your kid to school, they brainwash children into believing that they are not the right gender, they do this to create a whole new generation of commie voters, and in the meantime they destroy families, which commies dont care since they hate families anyway
Knowing that, and that it's happening across the county, makes a decent man harbor very dark thoughts.
Transgenderism is the only mental illness which demands the entire world accommodate its delusions.
The ones that did this should their children taken because of their mental disorder
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/jennifer-forster-bend-or/1404754
therapist that turned them into the State
“That’s a man, Baby!”
Section 21.
Access to courts
The courts shall be open to every person for redress of any injury, and justice shall be administered without sale, denial or delay.
https://floridacourtrules.com/florida-constitution/article-1-section-21/
If Oregon chooses to transmit a libel outside its jurisdiction to Florida, it should have to pay for it as a Florida court may decide, IMO.
Isaiah 5:20
New King James Version
20 Woe to those who call evil good,
and good evil;
Who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%205%3A20&version=NKJV
Article 18
....
4. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.
Article 23
1. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/ccpr.pdf
The US is a state party and that’s binding international law.
Something in this story is missing.
How do you go 0-2 and lose two daughters to the trans ideology.....unless you didn’t PARENT them and ensure they were in Sunday school?
Give them to the state and move out. Chalk it up as a life lesson.
Something in this story is missing.
How do you go 0-2 and lose two daughters to the trans ideology.....unless you didn’t PARENT them and ensure they were in Sunday school?
Give them to the state and move out. Chalk it up as a life lesson.
“I personally operate from a Christian worldview”
link given above:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/jennifer-forster-bend-or/1404754
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