Next week California’s state senate could take one more step toward effectively ending parental rights in the Golden State.
If the body’s Appropriations Committee approves Assembly Bill 495, the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025,” it sets up a floor vote on a law that will allow nothing short of legal kidnapping — and put gender-confused kids in unimaginable danger.
As detransitioners, we know firsthand how parents’ rights can shield children from a medical industry seeking to drug and butcher them.
When Luke was a teenager seeking out cross-sex hormones and permanently disfiguring surgeries to pursue a false transition, his mother Michelle Rodgers was the one who told him, “No.”
As a nurse and as a parent who refused to consent to so-called “gender-affirming care,” Michelle saved Luke from a lifetime of regret.
But had California’s AB 495 been in effect, Michelle’s right to make that decision on her son’s behalf would have meant nothing.
Read the full article on the New York Post.