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And she ended up a sex trafficking victim.
One young girl's devastating story is fueling outrage and action in Virginia after she was victimized by sex trafficking predators, aided by a failing system that places transgender ideology ahead of parental rights.
Be informed, not misled.
CBN News says, "The Virginia House of Delegates K-12 subcommittee voted 5-3 back in 2023 to refer Sage's Law to the Committee on Education for final vote. Sage's Law, also known as the Child Protection Act, was sponsored by Delegate Dave LaRock and aimed to protect the rights of parents and the safety of children who are dealing with gender confusion. It never passed."
They continue: "If enacted, Sage's Law would have prohibited schools from encouraging children to hide gender identity changes from their parents. It would have provided counseling services to those students who identify as a gender different from their biological sex, and it would make, at a minimum, one of the student's parents aware. If there is a suspected risk of suicide, social services would need to be contacted by school officials."
"The bill stemmed from a series of horrifying incidents in 2021 in which an Appomattox County High School student named Sage was targeted by sex predators after fleeing from her legal guardians upon their delayed discovery of her gender transition at school," CBN says.
This isn't an isolated incident.
A few years ago, a California mother began speaking out against her state's public school system, accusing it of brainwashing children about gender ideology. She wants to shed some light on the devastating effect it can have on their lives.
During a recent panel discussion hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Abigail Martinez shared, for the first time, the tragic story about her 16-year-old daughter, whose struggle with gender identity led her to take her own life.
Overcome with emotion, Martinez described her daughter as a "girlie girl" during her early childhood who loved to dress up like a princess.
She said, "During seventh and eighth grade, her daughter started to display signs of depression.
Martinez said she reached out to school officials for help and asked them to "keep an eye on her."
Her daughter was bullied at school, and kids began calling her ugly. Once she arrived in high school, the young girl decided she wanted to be a boy.
"When she started high school, the doors opened to what she was talking about, like transgender, going to meetings, going to all the support that they think they have for these children ... which is not," Martinez recalled.
The mom says, "The school counselor was involved, DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) was involved, LGBT was in there too, trying to 'help' my daughter on the transition of being transgender," Martinez noted. "I was accused that I didn't want to open my eyes since she felt since she was a little girl, that she was a boy, which was not true. She was not even close to a tomboy ... she was the girlie girl in the house."
The path to destruction
Martinez said she met with the school principal and counselor, but they actually made things worse. After a failed suicide attempt, her daughter was placed in foster care and then started going by the name of Andrew.
"The school psychologist and LGBT told DCFS that my daughter would be better off out of the house," the distraught mother said. "They took away my daughter when she was 16-years-old. I tried my best to get her back... going to court every single month."
She continued, "When I went to court, I asked the judge to please let my daughter have a psych evaluation."
But since her daughter's social worker said she needed to be acknowledged as transgender, the judge denied Martinez's request.
She said an LGBT group encouraged her decision to transition to a male identity and told her that the state of California would pay for her surgeries.
"This was the best time to do it," they told her daughter, "because if you don't do it right now, nothing is going to make you happy. You're unhappy with your body, you hate your body, so you go for it."
Martinez said she urged the courts to focus on the mental health crisis rather than the gender identity issue and to "help her from the inside out."
The last step: Removing God from the path.
She added, "What hurt me the most was that I was told not to talk about God."
A social worker warned Martinez that talking about God "was going to make him (Andrew) feel uncomfortable because he's in danger of committing suicide."
But it was too late.
Martinez said in September of 2019, her daughter committed suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.
She concluded her story by saying that she hoped no other parent would have to endure the heartache she experienced.
"I want everyone to know the truth because it didn't have to happen," Martinez said. "I don't want this to happen to any other family or to go through all this pain. There's a lot of pain."
Public schools, assisted by LGBTQ activists, are being led to destruction at medical facilities anxious to cash in on the growing "trans" medical surgeries.
Even transgender advocates have admitted that the majority of pre-adolescent children who struggle with gender identity will outgrow it by adulthood.
That calls into question the need for social affirmation, let alone medical interventions. Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones also carry physical risks for children. They include infertility, stroke, heart attack, and weakening of the bones.
Takeaway
Gerald Posner has written an article that was published by the Wall Street Journal titled, The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers.’
The FDA hasn’t approved them for gender dysphoria, and their effects are serious and permanent.
If you are currently raising children, please beware of this destructive demonic movement.
I would strongly encourage you to read the three-page commentary linked above.
In it, Posner notes:
- Gender-affirming care for children is undoubtedly a flashpoint in America’s culture wars.
- It is also a human experiment on children and teens, the most vulnerable patients.
- Ignoring the long-term dangers posed by unrestricted off-label dispensing of powerful puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, combined with the large overdiagnosis of minors as gender dysphoric, borders on child abuse.
Raising kids in today's culture is tough, but stand your ground, believing God will help you.
Remember, the Bible clearly tells us that the parent has the authority to raise the child. Not the state, not the government, and not public institutions like public education.
And remember God is faithful, and God is in control.
"Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace" (Psalm 144:12).
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Bold. Be Prayerful.
