{"id":42343,"date":"2021-06-11T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42343"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:51:27","slug":"this-is-happening-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42343","title":{"rendered":"This Is Happening In America"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The City Journal<\/a> posted an article about a recent event in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n

This is the story:<\/p>\n

Ahmed is a Pakistani immigrant, a faithful Muslim, and until recently, a financial consultant to Seattle\u2019s high-tech sector. But when he reached me by phone in October 2020, he was just one more frightened father. Days earlier, he and his wife had checked their 16-year-old son into Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital for credible threats of suicide. Now, Ahmed was worried that the white coats who had gently admitted his son to their care would refuse to return him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey sent an email to us, you know, \u2018you should take your \u2018daughter\u2019 to the gender clinic,\u2019\u201d he told me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first, Ahmed (I have changed names in this essay to protect the identities of minor children) assumed there had been a mistake. He had dropped off a son<\/i>, Syed, to the hospital, in a terrible state of distress. Now, the email he received from the mental health experts used a new name for that son and claimed he was Ahmed\u2019s daughter. \u201cThey were trying to create a customer for their gender clinic . . . and they seemed to absolutely want to push us in that direction,\u201d he said when I spoke to him again this May, recalling the horror of last October. \u201cWe had calls with counselors and therapists in the establishment, telling us how important it is for him to change his gender, because that\u2019s the only way he\u2019s going to be better out of this suicidal depressive state.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article goes on to explain the the child involved was autistic and during the Covid lockdowns had become fixated on the idea that he might be a girl.<\/p>\n

The story continues:<\/p>\n

But unlike some other parents I would later speak with, Ahmed\u2019s cool head prevailed. Believing he might be walking into a trap, Ahmed reached out to both a lawyer and a psychiatrist friend he trusted. The psychiatrist gave him advice that he believes saved his son, saying, in Ahmed\u2019s words: \u201cYou have to be very, very careful, because if you come across as just even a little bit anti-trans or anything, they\u2019re going to call the Child Protective Services on you and take custody of your kid.\u201d The lawyer told Ahmed the same: \u201cWhat you want to do is agree with them and take your kid home. When the gender counselors advise you to \u2018affirm,\u2019 go along with it. Just say \u2018Uh-huh, uh-huh, okay, let\u2019s take him home, and we\u2019ll go to the gender clinic.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahmed assured Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital that he would take his son to a gender clinic and commence his son\u2019s transition. Instead, he collected his son, quit his job, and moved his family of four out of Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Was Ahmed\u2019s reaction extreme? When I first heard it, back in October 2020, I wondered whether he hadn\u2019t overreacted. But as a growing number of parents began contacting me with similar stories, and I delved into the state laws of Washington, Oregon, and California, I came to a different conclusion. Taken individually, no single law in any state completely strips parents\u2019 rights over the care and mental health treatment of their troubled minor teens. But pieced together, laws in California, Oregon, and Washington place troubled minor teens as young as 13 in the driver\u2019s seat when it comes to their own mental health care\u2014including \u201cgender affirming\u201d care\u2014and renders parents powerless to stop them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It includes other examples of parents’ rights being trampled to further the transgender movement. This is a degree of government child abuse we have not seen before. Parents need to be very aware of what is being pushed on their children, and parents need to fight it legally to save their children from irreversible decisions that they will very likely come to regret later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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