‘Parental Nightmare’: Blue States Are Becoming Magnets For Runaway Kids Seeking Trans Treatments

Blue states across the country have implemented laws that allow children from other states to obtain sex changes and other “transgender” procedures within their jurisdiction.

California, New York and Minnesota are among states that have passed laws that allow minors to receive transgender procedures and sex changes despite the operations being illegal in the child’s home state. Some of the bills prohibit persons from being extradited back to their home state, and others allow children to become wards of the state when seeking transgender procedures, which experts described as a threat to parental rights in interviews with the Daily Caller News Foundation. 

“This is the worst parental nightmare I can conceive of,” Sarah Perry, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.  “Allowing a state to come in and shield a child from the birth parent from out of state so as to allow that child to receive gender-affirming care in the state, has consequences for parental rights and custody law that will be felt for decades to come.”