Family · Nationwide · October 6, 2026
Federal bill would cut funds to states that force gender-transition affirmation via CPS
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., have introduced the Yaeli Martinez Child Protection Act, federal legislation that would withhold funding from states whose child welfare systems remove children from parents who decline to affirm a child's gender transition, according to Knewz. The bill is named for Yaeli Martinez, a California teenager removed from her family over gender identity disputes who died by suicide at 19 in 2019. The Act would require states to recognize existing custody orders across state lines, preventing courts from citing a parent's refusal of gender-transition procedures as grounds to override parental rights. Rep. Miller stated, 'Raising your son as a boy or your daughter as a girl is fundamental to parenthood, not child abuse.' The Heritage Foundation has published a report alleging that federally funded training has taught caseworkers, doctors, and judges to treat parental refusal to affirm a child's gender as abuse. The article also references a Texas father who reportedly lost custody over a gender dysphoria dispute, though full details of that case were not provided.
Source: knewz.com
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Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
This bill addresses a real and growing conflict: parents who hold to the biblical reality that God created mankind 'male and female' are, in some jurisdictions, being treated by child welfare systems as abusive for simply raising their children according to their created sex. Christian families should recognize that the state increasingly treats biblical conviction about sex and gender as a child-welfare violation rather than a protected exercise of parental authority and conscience. Whatever the final fate of this specific bill, the underlying pattern — government agencies redefining faithful parenting as harm — is a direct threat to the family as God designed it, and believers should watch how their own state's CPS statutes and training materials define 'affirmation' and 'neglect.'
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — Genesis 1:27
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Legitimate expertise is technical competence exercised under moral authority, like a mathematics teacher explaining algebra. False expertise is ideology wearing the costume of science in order to usurp moral authority, like a counselor telling a child that his parents are unsafe because they hold biblical views on gender.
— Chapter 18, “The Expert Against the Parent”
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