California recently passed SB 107 which allows children in all 50 states to seek transgender medical services in California, even if a parent does not approve.
A new state law in California could incentivize “bad actors” from around the world to avoid custody laws by moving to the golden state, a conservative legal group says.
“We think it’s a drastic overreach by California,” Emilie Kao, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), told Fox News Digital. “Not only does it violate the fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, it also violates federal child custody and jurisdiction law because it essentially supersedes federal law that gives states jurisdiction over child custody matters.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom (recently) signed SB 107, which will prevent state officials from enforcing laws in other states that make it difficult to access transgender medical procedures and medications.
“With this law, California is basically saying that it can have temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child anywhere if there is a disagreement between a parent and the state of California about how to deal with a child’s gender distress” , said Kao, whose organization was one of 50 groups that sent a letter of protest to Newsom over SB 107.
“With this law, California is basically saying that it can have temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child anywhere if there is a disagreement between a parent and the state of California about how to deal with a child’s gender distress” , Kao said.
He added that SB 107 also “carves out a massive exemption to all existing child custody laws and deference to the jurisdiction of other states,” which he predicts will lead to costly and lengthy interstate litigation that will waste money of California taxes.
“Already, several states have taken very positive steps to protect children from irreversible harm not only from the experimental use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, but even from life-altering surgeries like double mastectomies, even and the whole hysterectomy,” Kao explained. “These are surgeries that cannot be reversed and will leave children with permanent damage, including possibly sterilization.”
Explaining how the law potentially denies parents access to medical information about their child if that child is in California, even if the child was taken there or ran away, Kao said the law “it creates a very bad incentive that basically creates an exception to the normal protections.” of children saying that anyone can bring a child to California, and it will not be treated the way that taking a child from their custodial parent would normally be treated.
“So it gives bad actors, bad parents and bad relatives an incentive to take a child to the custodial parent in California. It also creates a very dangerous incentive for children to run away from their home and out of other states if they have a disagreement with their parents on the subject of gender angst,” Kao continued.
“We also think that, in addition to the other states that could challenge this law, this could really affect a child anywhere in the world, not just American children, but really any child could be subject to this law if are. in the state of California,” Kao added. “So there’s a lot of potential for litigation.” (Full article.)
Greg Reese reports how some groups in California are actively recruiting children from “red” states where parents may disagree with transgender medical procedures.
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