Sat Jun 10, 2023 – 7:15 pm EDT
SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) — A newly amended California bill requiring judges to consider parents’ affirmation of a child’s alleged “gender identity” in custody disputes could open up “non-affirming” parents to child abuse allegations, opponents warn.
A June 6 amendment to California’s AB 957, already passed in the State Assembly on May 3, would characterize a “parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child,” The Daily Signal reported Friday.
AB 957 would alter Section 3011 of the California Family Code to require judges to consider whether or not parents “affirm” a child’s “transgender” identity as one of the factors in the consideration of custody disagreements.
The Washington Free Beacon noted that the vaguely worded new amendment has sparked worries that “non-affirmation” will be regarded in the Golden State “as abuse.” A similar situation has already unfolded in Canada, where a British Columbia father was jailed and fined after refusing to “affirm” the alleged male identity of his daughter and publicly referring to her as “she.”
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom already signed a bill last year allowing state courts
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