In a manner consistent with the child’s biological sex
HB 1376: Relative to a parent’s ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child’s biological sex.
My name is Alexandra. I am a Ukrainian immigrant mother who came to America with my husband in 2007, fleeing the shadows of Soviet-style control for the promise of freedom and safety. We built a life here. Our daughter was born in Kiev. We raised her with love, values, and hard work. But in June 2024, California Child Protective Services snatched our 15-year-old daughter—not because we ever abused her, not because we neglected her, but simply because we refused to affirm her sudden gender dysphoria.
Let me take you back. In Massachusetts from 2017 to 2020, our daughter was a vivacious, happy, but hyperactive girl who was brutally bullied by classmates and even teachers. The school did nothing. We sued them and won, but the harassment became so dangerous that we had to leave the state. In 2021 we moved to affordable Redding in Shasta County, California—just before the Fawn fire.
By 2022, the war in Ukraine pulled our family into aid work. Our daughter struggled to make real friends. She turned to Discord. There, she researched her trauma, got tested for ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, and major depressive disorder. She even self-prescribed lithium for mood swings. There were never any early signs of gender confusion. She was neither a girly girl nor a tomboy.
In 2023, everything changed. During a routine well-child visit at Mercy Family Center, we met psychiatrist, Dr. Sager. Two appointments later, our daughter was secretly referred to the Children’s Legacy Center for Resilience. Dr. Sager and the center began grooming her into trans ideology. They loaded her with heavy psychotropic drugs. At the same time, she joined an LGBTQ+ Discord server, met an online contact called “markymoo,” and spent hours playing Minecraft and Roblox with him. She cut her hair short, switched to male clothes, and started using male bathrooms. We accommodated the unisex name she chose. Dr. Sager was reassuring that wearing breast binders was safe. We tried to support her while seeking real mental-health care.
In early 2024, she demanded testosterone. We said no. She began isolating for days, swearing at us, correcting our language, and even bullying her little brother to call her “he.” On May 29, 2024, Dr. Sager called CPS on us because we would not affirm. On June 3, 2024, a stranger dressed in black—no badge, no court papers, no police—showed up at our door and took our daughter. No investigation. No warning. My husband had the SW call 911; eight police cars arrived, but they still let the stranger leave with her.
She was placed with “glitter” foster caregivers led by a woman named Maggie. They roomed our 15-year-old virgin daughter with Maggie’s biological son. They underfed her. They prescribed her birth-control pills and marched her to a sexual-health clinic for a pregnancy test. They promoted trans ideology every day. They blocked our calls and letters. And they coached her to testify against us.
We are fit parents. We immediately lined up expert care with Dr. Gopal, Chris Jensen, and BNI treatment centers a luxurty rehab center. We spent $180,000 on three sets of lawyers—every one of them eventually betrayed us, and we had to fire them. Our private insurance poured another $300,000—five thousand dollars a day—into BNI SouthCal, a residential rehab program we fought to keep her in longer so she could heal. The court blocked our contact there anyway. Maggie kept using a house phone, unlike us, and indoctrinating her.
On February 3, 2025, Dependency Judge Bigelow finally dismissed every single allegation of emotional abuse. There was never any evidence. But the judge still refused to return our daughter. Instead, he placed us on the Child Abuse Central Index—CACI—the state’s public abuser registry. That label now blocks us from jobs working with children, from security clearances, and even from having more children, and our age is not marked young. We have been harassed out of Shasta County and out of California entirely. We cannot sell or rent our Redding home -the county is against us. Our younger son has run away from his dear home in Redding, CA, just to feel safe.
This is not child protection. This is state-sponsored family destruction because they can. Prolonged separation has only deepened our daughter’s borderline personality disorder, turned her against us, and shattered our family. She now calls us “biological parents” and our last names. She says we are not a “safe space.” We feel betrayed, yet we still love her with all our hearts and will never stop fighting for her.
Under Welfare and Institutions Code sections 300(c) and 361(c), the law demands clear and convincing evidence of substantial danger before a child is removed. That evidence never existed—just like the cases In re Momander K. and In re B.P. make clear. Parents’ fundamental rights to direct medical care, religion, and upbringing—protected by Wisconsin v. Yoder and Grove v. Mead—were erased overnight.
In December 2025, we filed a pro-se civil rights complaint because no one else would help us. We failed pro-se because very few dared speak out against state-promoted, destructive ideology and state-funded medical experiments. We are still waiting for real justice.
That is why we urgently support this bill. It must stop CPS from removing children from loving, non-affirming parents without proven abuse. It must require clear and convincing evidence of neglect or abuse, not just ideological beliefs of social workers or judges, or the urge of NGOs and doctors to profit from medical experiments. It must ban ideology-justified removals. We saw ideological warfare against “unfit parents” in the Soviet Union, the Nazis’
of children from families deemed ideologically or racially unfit, and medical experiments on the vulnerable in the Nuremberg Trials. No need to repeat that history here. The recent HHS report confirms there is no reliable evidence of positive effects from sex-changing care on minors. It must restore parental rights and reunite families before more children are lost forever.
No parent should have to beg the government to return their child simply for refusing irreversible medical experiments.
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