Megan Brock

You know, we don't want any children harmed or abused.

So the

Because it's so horrific is why I think it should give parents and everyone who cares about children pause that something like not affirming a child's transgender identity could be labeled as abuse.

Because if you really believe that, then, well, you need to get the child out of that situation.

No, yep, she's still not in contact with her daughter.

And I reviewed the documents that were sent to her from the Oregon Human Services Department, and it specifically says she's being charged with a mental injury or that they found reason to believe she has given her daughter a mental injury for not affirming her gender identity.

And I think something else, too, I mean, this is going back to other work I've done on this story.

I mean, anyone can call CPS on you as a parent.

Like, you could have a teacher or a counselor or...

You know, there's this idea that it's not, that I think it's pushed that it's just kids who are already in foster care, and it's really not the case.

Some of the work that I uncovered in Ohio, what was going on in their child welfare system, was that they actually had a form where they were screening any child, recommending any child who came in contact with the system was screened to see what their SOGI, their sexual orientation, gender identity was, and whether or not they had affirming parents.

So you think about all of that, and then you think about why the definition or defining that affirming a child's sex is not a form of child abuse is so important.

Most states do not have anything on the books.

There's like, I think, three or four states that have taken action to define that, but it is so vague.

And so then if you have someone who's a transgender activist working in social services, and unfortunately, I think the

Social work pipeline is probably even more radical than the education pipeline many times in terms of being LGBTQ affirming.

Well, to that person, they might actually view not affirming a child's transgender identity as harm, which isn't there for abuse.

And because the terminology is so vague that these poor parents, once their kids are in the system, have no ground to stand on or to really fight back on, it's so heartbreaking.

Yeah, well, there was a group of researchers I had mentioned before that were awarded this $10 million grant at the end of 2016.

They were originally based out of the University of Maryland.