This past Monday, the California State Assembly pushed through a bill that is trying to set up the state as a sanctuary for kids attempting to get transgender medical procedures, along with parents who are wanting to force their kids through such procedures.
SB-107, the bill in question, seems to be in part making its way through in response to many other states taking steps to limit the power of parents to force their kids through transgender medical procedures.
Senator Scott Wiener (D), the author of this bill, posted to social media this past Monday, “The Assembly just passed our trans state of refuge bill (SB 107) so trans kids & their families can come to CA if they’re being criminalized. States like TX are classifying gender-affirming care as child abuse & threatening to incarcerate parents. CA won’t stand by.”
BREAKING: The Assembly just passed our trans state of refuge bill (SB 107) so trans kids & their families can come to CA if they’re being criminalized.
States like TX are classifying gender-affirming care as child abuse & threatening to incarcerate parents. CA won’t stand by.
— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) August 29, 2022
“California must stand with LGBTQ kids and their families, especially when they’re under attack across the country,” stated Senator Wiener when the bill made it through the Assembly Appropriations Committee. “SB 107 ensures that California is a refuge state for trans kids and their parents, so they can be safe here. Parents should never be separated from their kids or criminalized for simply allowing them to be who they are. We need to hold firm in our support for the LGBTQ community and stand with LGBTQ youth.”
The legislator also made sure to highlight at the time that the measure has pushed 19 other states to push forward similar “trans refuge state” measures.
The measure states that healthcare providers and contractors “shall not release medical information related to a person or entity allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to any civil action.” Such civil action would include a foreign subpoena focused on a law of another state that allows civil action to be up against any person who allows such “health care” to happen.
The bill would also give the power to courts in California to step in if a child wants to get gender treatment within the state.
One California court would have “temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child, or a sibling or parent of the child, is subjected to, or threatened with, mistreatment or abuse,” but also “because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care,” states the new bill.
NEW: The California Assembly has approved SB 107 sponsored by @Scott_Wiener that provides a state of refuge to trans children and their families if they move from a state that criminalizes gender-affirming healthcare @KPIXtv
— Lauren Toms (@laurenetoms) August 29, 2022
The new bill would also block any law from another state from being enforced if it would end in a child being taken from a parent due to the parent forcing the child through gender treatments.
