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From Fox News: “Marginalized,” “powerless,” living in the “Twilight Zone.”
Parents of a trans teenager living in Geneva used those words to describe how they have lived in shock and fear over the last 19 months after their then 15-year-old daughter was removed from their home by court order following their objections to giving her puberty blockers.
Now, they are fighting under threat of criminal charges to preserve her identity and stop her from making potentially irreversible changes to her body.
“This is not a question of human rights,” the father told Fox News Digital. “This is a question of conducting medical experiments on children.”
The parents of the now 16-year-old – who wish to remain anonymous to preserve their family’s privacy – claim they have struggled to combat the institutional powers that have accused them of parental abuse for their refusal to give their daughter elective medicine.
The report explains that the couple’s daughter first told them in 2021 that she now identified as a boy. This came after the coronavirus pandemic hit, when schools were closed and students spent a greater number of their time online.
“It was an absolute surprise. She was 13 at the time, and she had never previously demonstrated any inclination toward masculinity or any proclivity for masculine behavior ever,” the father recalled.
“We said to our daughter, ‘Well this is a surprise, but we will listen to you, and we will seek medical advice. We will all learn together and make decisions together,'” he added.
The parents said a pediatrician recommended they take their daughter to the public children’s hospital in Geneva, which they did. There, she was shown a “gender unicorn” and was asked to identify with various aspects of the image, after which it was determined that she was “likely experiencing gender dysphoria,” the report states.
The parents were advised to show their support by allowing their daughter to cut her hair, dress as a boy and wear breast binders. Again, they complied with the advice.
However, after a few months, the hospital told the parents they should allow their daughter to be given hormone blockers, and that’s where they drew the line.
The pressure grew worse, and the school began arranging meetings for the girl with a transgender advocacy agency behind the parents’ backs:
Against the parent’s wishes, the private school their child attended began to “socially transition” their daughter and connected her with a transgender advocacy organization.
By the time their daughter was 15, a school psychologist – who she saw in addition to the private psychiatrist hired by her parents – reached out to the Swiss Child Protection Agency (SPMI) and claimed the minor needed protection from her “transphobic” parents following their continued objection to puberty blockers.
Eventually, based on alleged mental and physical health concerns, a Swiss court decided their daughter should be placed in a supervised home run by social services known as a “foyer” – where the now 16-year-old has remained for more than a year.
Swiss court takes trans child away from parents over their objections to puberty blockers https://t.co/08fdiz3lln
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 27, 2024
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