No Parental Rights in California

California has passed a series of laws to turn kids LGBTQ, and against the parents.

First:

In September 2012, the California legislature passed Senate Bill 1172 (SB 1172), which prohibits licensed psychotherapists from engaging in “sexual orientation change efforts” (SOCE) with minor patients.1 This unprecedented statute aims to prevent any mental health professional from using techniques—commonly known as “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy”—that attempt to eliminate homosexual attraction or foster heterosexual attraction when treating a minor patient.2

The passage of SB 1172 adds a new dimension to mainstream psychotherapy’s complicated relationship with sexual orientation. As many scholars have pointed out, the majority of psychiatrists and psychologists once believed that same-sex attraction could be “cured” through psychotherapeutic intervention.3 However, since homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973,4the mainstream mental health establishment5 has come to view homosexuality and bisexuality as benign, encouraging therapists to engage in practices that “affirm” a patient’s sexual orientation.6

News from 2018:

Legislation to ban efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, sometimes called “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy,” passed in the California Assembly this morning with a bipartisan vote of 50-14 (pending additional votes from members who were not present in the chamber at the time of the initial tally). Assemblymember Evan Low’s AB 2943, cosponsored by Equality California and the Trevor Project, would make California the first state in the nation to ban these widely discredited practices from being performed on both children and adults.

And now this

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law Monday prohibiting schools from informing parents when students change their pronouns in school. The Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act also imposes responsibilities on the State Department of Education to develop resources to “increase support for LGBTQ pupils.”

According to the California legislature’s LGBTQ caucus, the SAFETY Act is necessary to prevent school boards from outing the gender identity of students. In July 2023 several schools passed so-called “forced outing” policies, which required teachers to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender.

Minors can also get abortions:

Unlike many other states, California does not require minors to obtain parental consent to receive an abortion. The minor patient's right to provide their consent is based on state case law and not on any statute.

California had passed a statute to require either parental consent or a court order, also called judicial bypass, in cases involving a minor's abortion. Before that statute became law, it was declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court based on California's constitutional guarantee of a right to privacy. State lawmakers have since repealed the original statute.

Not only that, but I believe that California parents are not even notified of the minor abortion.

Elon Musk cited the latest law as a reason for moving out of California.

Under these laws, a small child could get drawn to a school counselor, and show some slightly non-conforming behavior, such as a boy liking the color pink. The counselor cannot legally encourage the boy to be a boy, and must tell the boy that he is a girl. Soon, the boy is using female names and pronouns at school, and the school is probibited from telling the parents what is going on. The school has to issue two report cards, one with the boy's female name, and one for he parents.

The LGBTQ lobby justifies these policies by saying that the boy could commit suicide. But that is all the more reason to inform the parent.

Musk tweeted:

The goal is this diabolical law is to break the parent-child relationship and put the state in charge of your children