I have a new piece in The Spectator on the importance of defending children and families from LGBT ideology. In it, I discuss the tragic case of Yaeli Galdamez, who was removed from her mother’s custody after the school psychologist and DCFS deemed her mother to be insufficiently enthusiastic about gender transition as a proposed cure for her daughter’s mental-health issues. From the piece:
On August 2, 2019, DCFS wrote to Abigail to say that the three-year-old allegations of emotional abuse that had resulted in her loss of custody rights had been changed from “substantiated” to “inconclusive.” The gesture was too little, too late. Yaeli’s mental health was deteriorating. The next month, the nineteen-year-old took her own life by kneeling in front of a freight train.
All sorts of issues come into focus when you look closely: if the problem had really been Yaeli’s family, her condition would have improved in state custody and after she began transition treatments. And yet the opposite happened. Why did DCFS concede there was no proof of Abigail’s being abusive three years after Yaeli had been taken from her care? Does the county intend to apologize for or explain the misclassification that resulted in the loss of Abigail’s custody rights?
I tried asking them. But instead of answers, I received a generic statement about how they “aggressively pursued the implementation of inclusive, gender-affirming laws, policies and supportive services for LGBTQ+ youth.”