All Democrats voted YES. All Republicans voted NO.
The Washington State Legislature passed Senate Bill 5599, which allows children to leave home and go to a licensed shelter if parents do not consent to their child’s gender transition desires.
Under current law, licensed shelters must notify parents if a child comes into their care, unless a compelling reason applies. This legislation allows licensed shelters to consider a child’s decision to change genders as a compelling reason.
The shelter can contact the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), instead of the parents, so long as the child wants to change gender and the parents oppose it.
Some parents believe their children are not competent to change genders before they reach maturity.
Democrat Washington State Senator Marko Liias said, “This legislation ensures that our trans youth have safe options and access to secure, stable shelter when they may not be welcome at home.”
Washington law presumes children are not legally competent to consent to sex until they are 16. They can vote when they are 18. They can smoke or drink alcohol when they reach 21.
They can change their gender at 13 without parental consent.
“This bill is an important step in ensuring young people across the state have a roof over their heads during an already challenging period in their life,” said Liias. “While we hope that every child has a supportive family that will provide them with acceptance and the care they need, it’s crucial that we provide housing options to those in crisis.”
Danni Askini, Executive Director of Gender Justice League, said, applauds: “This bill is such an important step towards protecting our at-risk youth in Washington. It takes immense courage and bravery for trans youth to come out to their family and ask for support. All young people in Washington State should have the right to be safe, true to themselves, and to live free of violence. This bill helps us ensure the safety and opportunity of some of the most vulnerable young people we work with.”
Social transition is the care offered to prepubertal children. Pubertal suppression and gender-affirming hormone therapy, which permanently sterilizes children, are available at age 13.
Double mastectomies are available to 16-year-olds. Genital surgeries can start around age 17, including womb and testicle removal.
Washington health insurers must cover “gender-affirming” care, including surgical treatments for children without parental consent. The law mandates insurers deal directly with the patient without requiring the policyholder’s authorization, then send the parent the bill.
Affirmative legal interventions allow a child to change their name and gender on legal documents. Much like the tobacco industry, services must be offered before a child matures, since he or she might outgrow it and decide not to smoke or change their gender.
These outreach to children measures improve access to care and increase economic stability for doctors, hospitals, clinics, and counselors that provide gender transition services.
My nephew is extremely bright and self-aware. At a young age he could not wait to come home and put on his dress. When out in public he often carried a dress with him.
He loved make up, dancing and getting dressed up. He was thoughtful and mature. He told me God had made a mistake— that he was supposed to be a girl.
It pained me to see him in such distress and I thought he likely was trans.
He’s now 23 and outgrew whatever he has experienced at the time. He has been happy with his male gender for at least a decade.
I did validate his feelings at the time, and everyone was supportive and empathetic. However, it’s simply too young to make life changing, permanent decisions.
And the democrats are pushing this agenda- it’s all over social media which is another element influencing the thought process of kids.
Exactly.
PERMANENT STERILIZATION?!!!!!!
Nazi agenda
Sage law. A true story of a transgender child who was exploited by the system rather than placed back at home
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-story-behind-sages-law
I want to be married one day to a nice man and I was assigned a male body. What do you want me to do be GAY!!!!
Everybody here is so selfish. Who’s protecting the trans kids? We have a write to decide its our bodies.
Help us be heard.
Washington has serious problems in children and family law systems. This is only going to add more problems. Washington is one of the most corrupt states in USA. It’s all about $$ politics and power.
What you people don’t understand is that if I don’t get cross hormone therapy now I’m going to look like a man when I grow up. I’m old enough to know I got the wrong body for me. This is about me.
Im 14 and my stupid parents don’t understand. My parents keep calling me Roy. No one understands.
Please help me.
Linda,
With all due respect, calling your parents, your “ stupid parents” SAYS IT ALL.
No respect for your parents could mean you don’t have self respect.
Cutting off your penis and augmenting plastic bags on your chest? Im not convinced that will satiate the void within. It seems like a band aid- a temporary, superficial solution. That’s why adults want to guide children, because they want children to succeed, not because they want to harm them. If, at a reasonable age you still need to cut your parts off to find inner contentment, then make that decision as an adult, for your self.
I don’t think you should judge her position based on a statement of frustration with her parents. She knows how she feels but I agree it’s best to wait at least until 16.
I get it . You wanna be the cool parent . A friend. Not an Actual parent . You are the type of person who would let their kid get a boob job and butt implants because they identified with being a woman more than being a child.
Couldn’t just make them wait until they are 18.
Obviously this is satire
When I was 13 I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
The only thing was I was wrong.
When I was 13 I was 100% sure I was going to be a famous singer. I was determined to be that since I was 5 actually. I remember when my singing teacher recommended that I not give up on my studies, just in case I didht reach stardom as I pledged I would be.
I’m glad my teacher taught me to use my voice, I’m also relieved that she taught me common sense as well.
Exactly Sandra !
I bet that creep is smuggling babies in his rumpus!!!! He looks like a quintessential intellectual Cho mo mo fo!
This is absolutely abhorrent. What does a 13 year old know about life ?
It’s such a confusing time. The hormones turn emotions upside down. Peer pressure is extreme. Kids this age are known to go through radical STAGES. Kids are compulsive and rebellious at this age. 13 is exactly the worst age to make this decision… a choice that will radically change their lives forever more.
This is scandalous..it should be fought with full might.
It’s twisted, perverse, reckless and dark.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/when-transgender-kids-transition-medical-risks-are-both-known-and-unknown/
Agree with you
Sen Marko looks like he has a huge cheesy hairy butt.
This dude is dangerous.
So first the government is going to push impressionable children into getting sex changes through school, entertainment and medical arenas. They ll make a killing at it through certain transactions and cut backs . Then they’ll tax everyone up the wazoo. Then they’ll take your authority away from you by stealing your children from you if you don’t agree with their agenda.
You know what is next ? Soon adults are going to go even further ..
Grown men who “ identify” themselves as a woman, soon will “ identify “ themselves as a child!
This will mean they can have “ play dates “ with our children!
It’s all pedophile psycho bs.
I have zero tolerance for this. Let kids be kids. Let them have their innocence!!!
Sigh.
Trans is the cause de jour.
Extremists on both ends of the political spectrum are the ones really driving unnecessary and hysterical hypet focus on such a tiny, tiny fraction of the population.
This bill specifically is talking about children who are in shelters (so that’s an even smaller fraction of the population and then the percentage of those children who are in shelters because they have issues with their parents about being trans is going to be even smaller).
Like most bills it was probably well intentioned. Trans youth are at much greater risk for violence. They are frequently kicked out of their homes and often resort to exploitative sex work in order to survive. If you care about children at all (regardless of the trans aspect) you wouldn’t want them vulnerable on the street and subject to being sexually abusef by perverted adults.
And again, they’re statistically much more likely to end up murdered.
Should children be kept from their parents as a blanket rule? Probably not. Said the government be highly involved in people’s family relationships? Again, probably not . Would have to do a deeper dive into the nuances of the bill.
The obsessive focus on certain aspects of the trans population is counterproductive to true discussion and understanding of the issue overall and clearly driven by a political agenda (again notice both sides of political landscape were included).
The amount of time and energy certain politicians are putting into the trans population seems really disproportionate. And mainly driven by an agenda for personal advancement politically and ginning up their constituents
I don’t think it’s a sigh response for me…more like a roar
The sigh comes from society’s inability to have level-headed discussions about emerging topics, not about the topic itself
Too heady for me.
Kids should not be surgically scarred for life by dumb ass adults who profit from their undeveloped vulnerability.
Period.
I tend to agree on the small fraction
I wonder, does the state foot the bill as well? Aren’t these surgeries super expensive and multi faceted?
Exactly. These kids are so entitled, brainwashed, bored and shallow. Spending so much money on such frivolous matters, (frivolous because children at that age are subject to trendy whims and make extreme and bold statements just to figure out their own individuality ) is obnoxious when so many children go without food, books and regular health care. We are encouraging a generation of lopsided privilege.
If we are concerned about transgender children being targeted for rape and exploitation- include all children, because all children are vulnerable and that’s the freakin point ! Children are way too vulnerable to make such radical and permanent decisions about their bodies. Just let it rest. If the children still want to go through the change after therapy and education and become of age ( 18) then so be it! But it’s completely unacceptable for adults to co-sign this permanent, violent physical change on children who have not even finished growing yet!
I totally agree. Why all this focus and attention on such a small percentage of the population (0,001%?). And then this focus on children. I just don’t understand this.
There are people that are “born in the wrong body”. That’s a fact. They should be taken seriously and get some help, even sex change if need be. But why everybody all of a sudden is talking about this, no. 1 on the agenda, is beyond me.
Don’t we have more important things to address?
No one forced Steven J to write about it or focus on it. But you did.
Read the screw tape letters Steven
Everybody is talking about it because there has been an explosion of children, teens, and young adults now claiming they are trans. And the process from declaring oneself trans to medicalization has become a mere signoff. Vulnerable populations of kids especially those on the spectrum are getting caught up in the online onslaught of influencers – and it proceeds just like a cult convincing children/teens/young adults whose brains are not fully matured to isolate themselves from loving families. Families who don’t immediately jump to affirmation, who want to proceed through exploratory counseling first, who want to discuss whether the long term effects of opposite sex hormone usage are worth the “gains”, who want to make sure their young people actually understand the permanent medical consequences of the major body modification process of genital surgery – all those families are being termed transphobic and TERF and being shouted down and drowned out by this deluge of delusion.
Walk into a Planned Parenthood; pass their checklist (with the correct answers you found on the internet); waive any counseling beyond that initial determination; and they hand you cross-sex prescriptions that within a couple years of use will make you sterile and increase your risk of so many other medical issues – stroke and cardiovascular disease and dementia and osteoporosis… This idiocy is a ticking medical time bomb.
It’s disconcerting that children can be taken away from their parents because they don’t agree with surgery that can potentially cause serious ramifications.
The state is pushing a perverse agenda on families in USA. They are trying to separate children from their families, they are trying to make money off vulnerable children, they are promoting physical mutilation on children s genitalia and experimenting on them with drugs. It is all a sickening social experiment that is shocking and of course is stunning the public. What’s next ?
kids aren’t kept away from their parents for SEXUALLY or PHYSICALLY ABUSING them, but the courts will keep kids away because they won’t let them mutilate their bodies.
Moral of the story?
The only way a child can get away from their abuser is to do the snip.
Drastic measures
How about going to therapy first ? Exploring why the human wants to change their physical body to fix their internal dilemma!
Western culture is too obsessed with the material world, how about learning ACCEPTANCE and self love first l? 13 years old is much too young to make such a powerful decision. There is a lot of proof that the hormones negatively effect these children.
It’s DU jour lol 😆
Well said
It’s not about the trans population, it’s about the wicked agenda to separate children from their parents.
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are pushing through HB2002A. The bill expands abortion access to minors of any age & allows them to have one without parental knowledge.
A lawmaker asks an attorney for the legislative office: “So a 10-year-old could make that decision on their own?”
Lawyer: “Yes.”
Washington State Senator Marko Liias needs a sex change operation.
Off with his genitals!
Broadcast it live on the local PBS TV station.
Absofuckinlutely
https://michaelvolpe.substack.com/p/appearance-alert-on-the-pro-america-470 there’s a similar law in California AB957 which is making its way through the legislature. This will tell judges to strongly consider affirming a child’s identity to be in the child’s best interest.
“With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. Enforcement may not be linked to the sex/gender of participants or age of consent to marriage. Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law. In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.”
https://www.liveaction.org/news/un-report-calls-sexual-activity-decriminalized/
Is this a huge experiment by the Left or do they just completely want to screw up Humanity?
Holy shit
Since children can change their gender at 13 without parental consent, they can also be transhuman without parental consent.
I think Children should then be able to run for SENATE!!!
They can pass bills to have as much cotton Candy and tiktok as they want too! It’s absolutely absurd!! Children!! These are children!! It’s going to destroy their reproductive systems, and maybe that’s exactly what they want !! Pop control! Elite want to control the population and control that bond between mother and child !! They are no longer even calling mothers “mother” ! Now it’s human with a uterus!
Total insanity.
The Party of Pedophiles strikes again! Not all Democrats are pedophiles, but all pedophiles are Democrats.
This is what they were up to when we were all on lock down.
Sick little bastards. Children are going to have to grow up quickly because the shite has hit the fan
No, that’s not true: Matt Gates is a bonafide Epstein-grade pedophile……