The battle over the fundamental rights and responsibilities of parents is set to resume with a public hearing in the Alaska State Legislature this week.
On Thursday, Jan. 22, the House Health and Social Services Committee will hear “invitation only” testimony on House Bill 232, legislation which opponents argue undermines the basic right of parents to guide their child’s healthcare decisions.
Introduced by LGBTQ activist Rep. Andrew Gray (D-Anchorage), the House bill mirrors Senate Bill 90, which was introduced last year by Sen. Cathy Giessel (R-Anchorage).
Additionally, the entirety of SB 90 was added to House Bill 36 (also sponsored by Rep. Gray). While HB 36 initially only dealt with children in foster care, the wording of SB 90 is now part of that larger bill, thanks to Sen. Matt Claman (D-Anchorage) who merged the two bills in the Senate Judiciary Committee last May. So, in essence, identical threats to parental rights are now contained in all three bills – SB 90, HB 232 and now, HB 36.
Each of these bills would allow minors to consent to up to five mental health treatment sessions without any parental knowledge or consent. This would include sessions that deal with topics like gender-identity and sexual orientation, along with others.
Proponents of such laws include a lengthy list of LGBTQ activist organizations that believe states should lower age-of-consent laws to give mental counselors access to minors without informing their parents. In many cases, this is framed as necessary because many parents oppose treatments that push controversial notions about gender fluidity and transgenderism.
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The trio of Alaska bills would allow mental health workers to treat minors indefinitely – without parental involvement – if the provider deems that the child wouldn’t get treatments if parents knew, that telling parents would harm the child’s wellbeing and that the minor is somehow mature enough to choose treatments without parents knowing.
If these bills pass, school-based counselors and gender clinics, such as Anchorage’s Identity Health Clinic, would be able facilitate a minor’s social transition while keeping parents in the dark. Later, these providers could recommend irreversible sex-transition drugs and even surgeries.
In 2023, a similar law was approved in California allowing minors to undergo gender-affirming mental health care – such as outpatient therapy or counseling related to gender identity – without parental consent so long as a counselor determines that the minor is mature enough to participate in these discussions.
TAKING ACTION
— Read the proposed Alaska bills: HB 232 and SB 90 and HB 36.
— Click here to contact Sen. Cathy Giessel (Sponsor of SB 90)
— Click here to contact the members of the Senate Finance Committee which is considering HB 36 (a bill that now includes SB 90).
— Click here to contact the members of the House Health Committee which is considering HB 232.
— Click here to contact the members of the Senate Rules Committee where SB 90 is currently awaiting action.
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Absolutely not! Parental consent! Parents need to protect their families and the vulnerability of their children.
Gray and Giessel are the worst offenders of bills to kill the parental consent and protection of children.
Agree. At least Gray is honest about her ideology as a leftist and runs as a Democrat. Giessel is a flat out dishonest person.
Oh good grief wrong Gray. . Speed reading gets me in trouble. Albeit Andrew Gray also runs as who he is.
If the parents are not going to have the rights to defend their kids from the sales pitch of these ideologies, then stick the so-called providers and the LGBTQ advocates with the bills for raising the kids. Enough of tax payers and parents paying for this skulduggery and then blaming the parents when the kids realize they were lied to by those promoting the LGBTQ agenda. Also get the state out of paying for these gender change operations. Stick the so-called providers and the other LGBTQ advocates for these, also. Let them put their money where their mouth is.
Be prepared for where this leads. In WA, legislation like this has led to kids 13 and above being fully permitted (and encouraged), with or without parental consent, to get “gender-affirming care” (hormones, surgeries, etc.). Then it led to schools having nurses and MDs weekly available on campuses so that a student literally needs just a hall pass to secretly meet and attain these so-called services. Parents are not to be notified about the decisions being made but must cover any costs incurred. So wrong and incredibly scary to see the state seizing parental rights.
Groomers.
Deviants.
Perverts.
ANYONE who wants to get involved in a child’s sexuality, without parental consent – should go to prison.
This is all part of the Pedo, Satan, human sacrifice ethos that ran the earth until Jesus came – and continues to try and run societies through the practices of abortion, euthanasia/assisted suicide, forced vaccines, global warming, animal rights, feminism, normalization of all things gay and transexual.
I understand Trump’s executive order to forbid federally funded entities from promoting, sponsoring, teaching, encouraging or supporting gender transition hormones and surgeries for minors. So how are Alaska schools able to circumvent this?
The Parents make the ultimate
decision for their children no matter what others may think.
If these people want to make decisions for children, then they need to have some. There ARE federal laws now against this agenda and Alaska is in noncompliance. The state needs to be defunded until compliance takes place. UAF AND UAA are in noncompliance with these executive orders. Our Alaska Commissioner of Education needs to back President Trump in his efforts to stop the death culture within the Democratic Party . Our Fairbanks school district still has Diversity education. The “death culture” movement will not comply until forced. Alaska needs to be defunded. Our governor should help our President with this ongoing problem of government trying to take over parental rights. Lawsuits need to take place suing the legislature for promoting illegal access in order to break up families. The church needs to help oppose this and the Governor needs to support Trump’s efforts to return the USA to the rule of law ten commandments and Bill of Rights, AND the US Constitution.. PRAY! PRAY! PRAY! Pass on this very dangerous legislation to every church and every family that knows that this is a forced removal of Western Civilization from our society, including God. Watch a 90 minute documentary of “Truth is Rising” on Youtube.
First, stop referring to a sexual preference as a class of people. Second, protect our children or resign your (probably stolen) seat in government. Contact our elected officials and demand the SAVE Act be passed! We can get these demons out of government by making our elections secure.