(OPINION) An expert on the law who multiple times has testified before Congress on various legal disputes says the United Kingdom is going to extremes now, making it abuse NOT to abuse a child.
It is Jonathan Turley, of George Washington University, who has written a column about what the government there is demanding of parents when their children say they are transgender.
He said there’s an interpretation put forward by police in the U.K. which provides that “parents who refuse to use the alternative pronouns for their children or refuse to pay for their transitioning could be criminally prosecuted.”
Those transitioning “treatments” would include the administration of chemicals to sterilize a child for life and even surgical body mutilations.
“As the debate rages in the United States over parental notification and authority in cases involving transgender children, the United Kingdom is embroiled in a controversy over a law that would not only limit parental authority in such cases but affirmatively require parents to pay for such transitioning,” he explained.
He noted, “According to the U.K.’s Code for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), abusive conduct now includes ‘withholding money for transitioning and refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun.’
So a parent with familial or religious objections to the transitioning of a child would be required under the law to fund operations or treatments.”
He explained, “To potentially prosecute a parent for refusing to use an adopted pronoun of their child is chilling and wrong. Nevertheless, a CPS spokesperson doubled down with a comment to Fox News that ‘domestic abuse is a severe crime and leaves victims with a lasting impact . . . This assists prosecutors to ensure that any victim, regardless of who they are, can get justice for the abuse they have faced.'”
Turley said, “It was Sir Edward Coke in ‘The Institutes of the Laws of England,’ 1628 who declared ‘For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man’s home is his safest refuge].’
William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham later added: ‘The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail – its roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter – the rain may enter – but the King of England cannot enter.” The idea, actually, isn’t new there.
A public report explains a new bill in California would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s code for parental responsibility and child welfare. That would make a parent who declines to affirm transgender ideology adopted by his or her child guilty of abuse. (READ MORE)
