Attorney General Rob Bonta has been sued by parental rights non-profit group Our Watch on Tuesday over a recently passed law that made California a refuge state for transgender children and their families from other states that criminalize youth “gender-affirming care” treatments. The group says that the law is unconstitutional and interferes with parental rights.
Transgender health care, also known as “gender-affirming care,” includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental health conditions, as well as sex reassignment therapies, for transgender individuals.
Brought before the state legislature last year, Senate Bill 107, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), was passed and signed into law in September by Gov. Gavin Newsom. SB 107 subsequently became law in January, officially prohibiting health care providers and service plans from releasing medical information related to someone allowing a child to receive “gender-affirming health care” in response to a criminal or civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that authorizes a person to bring a civil or criminal action against a person or entity that allows a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. Law enforcement agencies are also now prohibited under the law from arresting or extraditing the child or the people who approved the gender-affirming care due to an out-of-state law against gender-affirming care.
SB 107 also prohibits the removal of a child from the custody of a parent or guardian based on them allowing a child to receive gender-affirming care, with courts being prohibited from finding it to be an inconvenient forum where the law or policy of another state that may take jurisdiction limits the ability of a parent to obtain gender-affirming care and the provision of such care is at issue in the case before the court. Courts are also prohibited from considering the taking or retention of a child from a person who has legal custody of the child, if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming care. MORE
Weiner, Bonta, and Newsom need eunuch affirming care. They’ll be happier and much less aggressive after the kiss of the gelding tongs.