In this bill, affirming means rejecting. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

A new California bill would require that youth receive so-called gender affirmation care,

even if it means taking custody away from their parents. SB 107, if passed, would, according to

the California Family Council, empower California courts to take temporary emergency jurisdiction

of children if they come to California

for trans drug, surgery, or mental health care. This doesn't just apply to parents and kids

from California, but to those who make it to California from anywhere else in the country.

One attorney put it this way, SB 107 could be the most brazen assault on fundamental parent

rights in the history of the

state. The bill is a culmination of destructive and backwards ideas, that gender affirmation

means rejecting the body, that removing healthy organs is the way to treat gender dysphoria,

that trans kids are expressing in innate identity instead of a temporary experience, and that parents

who question invasive procedures

deserve to have their kids taken away from them. Ideas have consequences. If this bill becomes law,

there will be many victims of these bad ideas. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.