➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway
US: Defending Your Identity to the State: When Parents of Trans Kids are Accused of Child Abuse (Opinion)
Huffington Post – September 27, 2017
The messages say all sorts of things, but right now, I want to talk about one of the most common themes: outraged accusations of child abuse for supporting our transgender child. They tell us how our children should be taken away, and we should be prosecuted and put in jail. After a while, it became such a broken record that I went numb to it. These weren’t as bad as those messages threatening violence, so I just began to ignore them. I’d scroll on past the comments or click delete without a twinge of emotion… until New Jersey’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency knocked on my door because someone had reported us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/defending-your-identity-to-the-state-when-parents_us_59cbcccce4b0b99ee4a9c9a6