The president of Courage is a Habit, Alvin Lui, warns that the legislation in California is a predictor of what all states will face if they’re not already.
“California is the closest thing we have to a crystal ball, closest thing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a red or blue state, you’re going to have some variation of this, or they’re working on some variation of this,” Lui said during a recent interview with the Family Research Council podcast.
Schools have two “lies” they have used to build this “transgender trafficking model,” said Lui. First, if parents don’t affirm the gender change, the child will kill him or herself, and second, that parents are the enemy.
Out of the series of bills, and one that has already passed, SB 107 is one with the broadest consequences because it says that if a child from another state crosses over to California, and the parents don’t want to affirm the gender transition, California will separate the child from the family and not return the child to the parents, even if they go to California to get them, said Lui.
“That bill has now been replicated across several states,” said Lui.
A parent and lawyer, Erin Friday, said children are indoctrinated starting as young as 4 to this gender ideology, like her daughter was.
Teachers are being told to keep secrets from parents and being trained, “that that’s what they are required to do. They’re also being taught that the child could be abused by the family,” said Friday.
Another bill that “traffics” children is AB 957, said Lui.
“That’s the in-state transgender trafficking. It means that if you as a parent don’t succumb and agree to the transgender procedures, they can remove your child.”
Applying this law to a custody battle would mean the parent who agrees to transition the child will be given custody, said Lui.
According to Friday, AB 957 “redefines what the health, safety and welfare of a child means.”
“It’s moving right over to where parents who are together and don’t want to affirm the identity of their child will risk being deemed abusive,” said Friday.
Another bill, SB 596, criminalizes parents who might object to the school transitioning their child or making the school staff feel “threatened” in any way when speaking to the school about what they did. If the school staff feel threatened, the parents will be fined between 500-1000 dollars or even face a year in jail.
“SB 956 is what we call the intimidation bill,” said Lui.
Another bill, AB 665, would allow minors as young as 12 to legally separate from their parents if they themselves decide they need mental health services Lui said. The bill’s text states that the government does not require “any evidence that the parent is unfit and worthy of having his/her parental rights terminated.”
And SB 407 would stipulate any family that wants to be a foster parent to agree to the gender ideology.
Two other related bills are AB 1078, which would allow the state to “dictate” school curriculum “regardless of whether it is scientifically accurate or age-appropriate or fits the local community’s values or needs,” and AB 5 which would require school staff to be trained on LGBT issues, transitioning students, and how to hide students’ gender identity from parents.
These laws will drive more children into the foster care system, said Lui.
“All these bills lead to one area, foster care. Why? Because in California, no matter what the other laws are, once it hits foster care, the state can decide on transgender procedures at any age,” Lui said. The reason why this is so dangerous is because foster care is the most “fertile ground” for child sex trafficking said Lui.
Lui said his organization works with sex trafficking organizations to put an end to these abuses. They have found sex and transgender trafficking have almost identical patterns of grooming and entrapment.
