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Attorney Erin Friday Says California Child Protective Services Can Threaten Parents Who Refuse to Use Their Child’s Preferred Pronouns

‘The school started to call my daughter by a male name, use male pronouns’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

FRIDAY: "Well, it goes back to when I found out that my daughter who was 13 years old, just starting high school, was secretly socially transitioned at school, meaning that the school started to call my daughter by a male name, used male pronouns. And when I called the school and told them to stop, that next week, Child Protective Services was at my door, the next day the police. And that was in immediate alert to me that the school wants to know better than — wants to parent my child. And that if I didn’t follow and call my daughter a boy, that Child Protective Services may come and take my child away. And at the time, I didn’t really know how dangerous the situation was. I later learned that parents in southern California had lost custody of their children because she wouldn’t transition her daughter, she wouldn't call her daughter a male and CPS took her child. So now I knew that I already had a black mark, and a few months later, my daughter ran away. The normal thing for a parent to do is to ask law enforcement to help find your child. She’s 13, female, alone at night. It’s two o’clock in the morning, three o’clock in the morning, and I can’t make that phone call because I know that there’s already a file opened up on me and that Child Protective Services can swoop in any time and take my child."

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