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Kidnapping is a horrific crime, no matter the victim. What could be worse than a kidnapper? Perhaps the lawmakers in Maine trying to legalize kidnapping take the cake. A January report from the Daily Signal details how the Maine House of Representatives considered a bill that would protect anyone who takes a child who identifies as transgender away from their parents without their consent.
The purpose of the bill was to provide “gender-affirming care” in custody disputes. The legislation would even counteract laws in other states, essentially making Maine a sanctuary state for kidnappers. Daily Signals said “it would prohibit courts from considering that a person applying for custody had taken a child from someone else with legal custody—such as parents—if that person removed the child” to engage in transgender surgeries or hormone therapy from a different state that restricts this experimental care.
The bill uses cloaked language like “gender-affirming care” and “mental health” of the child to obscure what it’s actually advocating – the irreversible castration, both physical and hormonal, of children who are not old enough to make these life-altering decisions. Children who follow the transgender path do so unwittingly, thanks to either bad actors in their personal lives or propaganda on social media.
The Daily Signal said that “Gender activists and their allies who have infiltrated health care organizations often insist that these interventions—which often amount to chemical castration—are essential to prevent gender-confused children from committing suicide. This twisted logic enables activists to claim that a parent’s disagreement on gender identity constitutes a form of “mental harm” to a child.”
These trans activists are not acting in good faith. They are lying, and they are harming America’s children. Legislators should be protecting children, not making it easier to plunge them into lifelong nightmares.
This post originally appeared at https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/family/transgender-danger-maine-bill-to-legalize-kidnapping/
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