Rep. Virginia Foxx is drafting legislation to restrict the involvement of child protection services in disputes over transgender youth.
On Tuesday, North Carolina Republican Representative Virginia Foxx introduced legislation to protect parents who refuse to allow their children to undergo social or medical gender transitions from having custody of their children terminated.
Foxx, a prominent member of the House Committee on Education & Labor, recently told Fox News Digital, “Parents have the right and duty to keep their children safe.” It also includes making choices about life-altering medical interventions.
Foxx argued that deciding not to provide a kid with gender transition therapy does not constitute abuse or neglect. ” It is imperative that inquiries into child abuse and removal not be based on this ruling. Neither a medical facility nor a government agency should be able to overturn a parent’s decision about whether or not their child should undergo gender-transition treatments.”
The Parental Right to Protect Act prevents child protective services from taking action against parents who express opposition to “gender-transition interventions” for their children. “Social and medical” procedures assist transgender persons in feeling more at ease in their skin.
Republican Party’s Education and Labor Committee’s information sheet explains that the measure would bar CPS from taking a child away from a parent because the parent objects to “gender-transition therapy.”
The fact sheet claims that a state loses eligibility for Title I funds under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act if its policies permit CPS to intervene if a parent objects to their child undergoing a “gender-transition intervention.”
As stated in the datasheet’s “Bottom Line” above. If a parent makes a medical decision for their child, that choice will not affect their right to have legal custody of the child.
The data sheet claims that CPS has intervened in such cases across the country on many occasions. In February 2018, a court in Ohio awarded custody of a transgender child to his grandparents after the teen’s parents refused to consent to hormone treatment for his transition, citing their religious beliefs.
In September, Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation that prohibits state agencies from carrying out federal anti-transgender measures.
If a parent from any state brings their kid to California for gender-transition therapy, the state would “take custody from the parent,” as stated in the Republican information sheet.
The new California legislation shields minors and their parents from legal ramifications for seeking or providing transgender services. It also forbids state agencies and law enforcement groups from cooperating with subpoenas and other out-of-state legal procedures on these matters.