The state of Oregon is refusing the adoption of children to a Christian woman because of her faith that doesn’t acknowledge transgenderism in children.
The woman is now suing Oregon for penalizing her for her religious beliefs.
The lawsuit was filed on Monday (April 3) by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of Jessica Bates, a single mother of five in southeast Oregon, who applied to adopt a pair of siblings from Oregon’s foster care system last year.
While she was eligible to become a mother by adoption in every other way, the state denied her application on the basis of her Christian faith that wouldn’t let her comply with the state’s requirement of transgenderism in the children up for adoption.
They required Bates to show that she was open to gender fluidity in the adopted children, while she believed that gender is biologically determined at birth.
The Federalist published details of Bates’ lawsuit whereby she refused to use pronouns for children that go against their biological sex. In addition, Bates expressed unwillingness to allow transgender procedures on children or bring a child for cross-sex-related medical appointments.
The official website for the Oregon Department of Human Services states that for child adoption, applicants are not discriminated against due to their religious beliefs:
Applicants are considered regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
As the ADF tweeted about the lawsuit against Oregon on behalf of Bates, conservative Christians on the platform expressed hurt and anger at the discrimination the leftists running Oregon are showing to Christians.
In their press release announcing the lawsuit, ADF wrote that Oregon is imposing its own agenda against the constitutional and moral obligations it must follow to let a person adopt children irrespective of their faith. The press release stated:
Oregon is putting its political agenda above the needs of countless children who would be happy to grow up in a loving, Christian home like Jessica’s.
Commenting on the issue, Tristan Justice cited evidence showing serious, often life-threatening risks associated with what the left calls gender-affirming procedures, i.e., transgenderism in children. He wrote that licensed clinicians subjecting children to such procedures are “eager to cash in on what is estimated to be a $5 billion-dollar industry by 2030.”
Liberals in the United States and abroad are aggressively pursuing transgenderism in children, while conservatives continue to put up a fight to protect children from the left’s agenda.
Exposure of minors to the transgender lifestyle, considered by many conservatives as a mental illness, is seen as a deliberate effort to sexualize children.
Even some advocates of the LGBTQ movement, like Oli London, speak against pushing transgenderism on children.