TransFamily Support Services is a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 107, which would protect from prosecution patients who travel to California for what supporters call gender-affirming care and doctors who provide that care.
from an out-of-state parent who disagrees with the other on their child’s gender-affirming care.
“It makes it easier for the one parent who wants to harm their child to harm their child, and it’s an enticement for kids to run away. There’s no two ways about it,” she said.“The point of the bill is not to remove kids from their parents’ custody — not when parents come here with their kids to prevent states like Texas from removing them from their custody,” he said.
That work convinces her of the importance of the bill. She said it’s “ludicrous” for politicians to assert that they know better than the parents of transgender children and their doctors about what medical care and treatment is best.
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