By Daily Caller Staff
The institutions created to protect and build better lives for American children who have suffered abuse and neglect have made it much harder for religious families to adopt. In fact, the state nearly thwarted one Christian foster family’s sacrifice to build a better life for innocent kids, all because their beliefs did not align with radical gender ideology.
In a new docuseries available now, Separated: When The State Takes Your Kids, the Daily Caller Original Series highlights the stories of three families who paid an awful price for refusing to participate in left-wing gender madness. The third and final episode follows Nancy Harmon, a devout Christian from St. Peter, Minnesota, who barely escaped the transgender insanity of state officials as she attempted to adopt three sisters.
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Nancy and her husband, Jay, had fostered three sisters, all of whom suffered abuse at the hands of their biological parents, for two years. The couple made the selfless sacrifice to adopt the girls, however government officials said they were not “the right fit” because of their Christian faith.
Why? The oldest sister claimed that she was “non-binary.”
Thankfully, a private therapist sent a letter arguing that Harmon’s adoption was in the best interest of the sisters. The left-wing state officials eventually backed down, and the adoption went through, but not without leaving lasting scars on a good and decent family that was only trying to do the right thing.
The Harmons’ story was a tragedy that could have been much worse. Unfortunately, other families are not so lucky. Though it worked out for one family, other Christians attempting to adopt face staggeringly unjust obstacles because they believe that there are only two genders, male and female.
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Sex-change procedures come with serious side effects than can leave transgender people with lifelong pain and discomfort. 95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.
“Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks,” according to a recent study that was published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. Hot Air sums up this peer-reviewed study as finding that “suicide risks” are “1200% higher after gender-affirming surgery.”
To overcome parents’ natural reluctance to subject their kids to the suffering associated with sex changes, doctors who do sex changes often tell parents that they need to gender transition their kid to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?”’”
But even a the leading transgender lawyer who supports gender transitions for kids was forced to admit this claim was false. That lawyer, Chase Strangio, conceded to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.”
