‘She wouldn't call her daughter a male, and CPS took her child’: Erin Friday
Erin Friday, a left-leaning parent, faced CPS threats after refusing to call her 13-year-old daughter "a boy," despite the school’s push for male pronouns. She uncovered Southern California cases where parents lost custody for opposing social transitioning, fearing CPS could weaponize her daughter’s runaway against her. Friday highlights schools bypassing parental consent and extreme medical interventions like breast removal for minors, framing it as a government-backed "gender ideology" coercion. Now, she channels her experience into advocacy, warning others about systemic risks to children and parental rights when dissenting from forced gender transitions. [Automatically generated summary]
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Parent's Dilemma00:03:15
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.
Fighting For Parents00:00:49
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.