“You either need to transition your child or you don’t get to keep your child”

Attorney Erin Friday says California Child Protective Services can threaten parents who refuse to use their child’s preferred pronouns

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News in Brief—News Headlines | February 27, 2026

She told me she feared calling the police when her 13 year old daughter ran away because she worried CPS would take her child.

“My daughter, who was 13 years old, just starting high school, was secretly socially transitioned at school.”

“The school started to call my daughter by a male name, use male pronouns.”

“When I called the school and told them to stop, that next week Child Protective Services was at my door.”

“You either need to transition your child or you don’t get to keep your child.”

Attorney Erin Friday says California Child Protective Services can threaten parents who refuse to use their child’s preferred pronouns.

She told me she feared calling the police when her 13 year old… pic.twitter.com/zcM4KIVblf
— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek)February 27, 2026

“The next day, the police.”

“That was an immediate alert to me that the school wants to parent my child.”

“If I didn’t follow and call my daughter a boy, Child Protective Services may come and take my child away.”

“Parents in Southern California had lost custody of their children because they wouldn’t transition their daughter.”

“I already had a black mark, and a few months later my daughter ran away.”

“The normal thing for a parent to do is to ask law enforcement to help find your child… but I couldn’t make that phone call.”

“Because Child Protective Services can swoop in anytime and take my child.”

“It’s coercion at its highest level.”

“You don’t get to parent your child.”

“This is America. This is insane.”

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