Let’s put this into plain English. If your seven-year-old son tells you he’s a girl and you do not instantly treat him as a girl, you could lose him. He could be taken away from you. If your 11-year-old daughter tells you she doesn’t want to go through puberty, and you make her go through it anyway, you could be branded ‘abusive’. Simply for ensuring your child experiences the perfectly natural hormonal transition into adulthood. And what if your teen says he’s a demigirl now, who uses ze / zir pronouns? That’s a legit identity in the woo-woo world of gender ideology. The California bill’s sweeping insistence that ‘affirmation of the child’s gender identity’ be considered in custody cases would presumably target even parents who refused to submit to their son’s crackers demand that everyone refer to him as ‘ze’. …

This bill, if passed, would fundamentally redefine family life in California. It would devastate parents’ rights. Your rights over your children – to love them, to look after them, to socialise them as you see fit – would be utterly contingent on your acceptance of the new state religion of transgenderism. AB957 is best seen as an act of forced religious conversion. It sends a stern message to parents across California that if they do not sign up to the cult of gendered souls, to the cranky belief that even young children sometimes feel a mismatch between their ‘real’ gender and their cursed biological casing, then they’ll be treated as the morally lesser party in custody hearings. Your worth as a parent will be determined by how willing you are to take the knee to the gender beliefs of your superiors.

[The goal of Marxism in all its forms is to destroy the family and claim all children as property of the State. That is clearly what California’s elite ruling clique are attempting to do with AB957. — Ed]