‘She wouldn't call her daughter a male, and CPS took her child’: Erin Friday
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Parents in Southern California have lost custody of their children because they opposed their child’s gender transition, says California-based attorney Erin Friday.
And once CPS has placed them into a foster family, California’s Foster Care Bill of Rights allows minors to undergo sex-rejecting procedures without parental consent, Friday added.
Friday joined legal battles against CPS and the state of California after her own 13-year old daughter was socially transitioned at school without her knowledge.
Today, she’s the co-lead of the parent support network Our Duty, a group that helps parents navigate the same ordeals her family faced. Show less
I found out that my daughter, who was 13 years old, just starting high school, was secretly socially transitioned at school, meaning that the school started to call my daughter by a male name, use male pronouns.
And when I called the school and told them to stop, that next week, Child Protective Services was at my door.
The next day, the police.
And that was an immediate alert to me that the school wants to know better than wants to parent my child.
And that if I didn't follow and call my daughter a boy, that child protective services may come and take my child away.
And at the time, I didn't really know how dangerous the situation was.
I later learned that parents in Southern California had lost custody of their children because she wouldn't transition her daughter.
She wouldn't call her daughter a male.
And CPS took her child.
So now I knew that I already had a black mark.
And a few months later, my daughter ran away.
And the normal thing for a parent to do is to ask law enforcement to help find your child.
She's 13, female, alone at night.
It's 2 o'clock in the morning, 3 o'clock in the morning.
And I can't make that phone call because I know that there's already a file opened up on me and that Child Protective Services can swoop in anytime and take my child.
So many things going through my head, okay, at this moment.
It's a kind of blackmail.
Like, how do you describe this scenario that you know if you don't basically follow what these people are demanding of you, you might lose your child?
Well, it's coercion at its highest level.
It's telling a parent that you either need to transition your child or you don't get to keep your child.
It's forcing a parent to socially transition their child and later medicalize their child.
Puts them in a position of the worst position a parent could be in is knowing that the government is coming after you because you believe in biological sex.
You want to raise your daughter as a daughter that you know you birthed, that you know no human has ever changed sex.
And you have the government telling you, no, you're abusive.
You don't get to parent your child.
The government knows better.
This is America.
This is insane.
So as soon as I started to learn about the whole of gender ideology that these schools were socially transitioning these kids behind parents' back, that the government was promoting this, that young girls were getting their breasts removed as part of this ideology.
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First I weighed it and I said, who's fighting this?
Why isn't the where is this in the news?
I came from the left.
I watched CNN and the New York Times.
I didn't see anything about this.
And so I was waiting for the Calvary to come.
And I joined all these different groups.
I joined the radical feminists and I started just Googling all groups that were fighting this.
And I realized that nobody was really fighting for the parents.
And I made a deal.
I'm not sure who the deal is with, but I made a deal that if I could safeguard my daughter from this, which I did, that I would help save other parents and save other children.