Oregon Sued For Denying Adoption To Christian Woman Over Her Refusal To Indulge Gender Dysphoria

Oregon has more than 8,000 children living in foster care, with 200 awaiting adoption. Jessica Bates, a mother of five from southeast Oregon, wished to provide a loving home to a child in need. However, state officials have seemingly implemented a last-minute religious litmus test for adoption, preventing Bates from starting a family.

The lawsuit filed Monday stated: “While Bates’s Christian faith is the reason she felt called to adopt in the first place, that same faith is the reason she is not being allowed to… According to the lawsuit, state officials denied Bates’s application to adopt, not because of a lack of financial resources or any history of abuse or neglect, but because she acknowledged that her Christian faith informs her that gender and sex aren’t a choice.”

Bates claims that her application was rejected because she is unwilling to use pronouns that contradict biological sex, and that she would refuse to bring a child to medical appointments for cross-sex hormones. Such experimental “treatments” for minors, which have permanent implications, are banned or restricted in 11 states.

The Oregon Department of Human Resources is denying Bates the ability to adopt for her refusal to foster an environment that promises to “affirm” the condition of a child’s extreme distress. The department has not responded to The Federalist’s request for comment.

Gender dysphoria has become the only area of modern medicine where child patients guide their medical care, rather than the licensed clinicians, who are often eager to cash in on what is estimated to be a $5 billion-dollar industry by 2030. However, despite the real risks of suicide by aggressive affirmation of gender dysphoria, beyond the permanent mental and physical impacts of the pseudoscientific procedures being pushed on children, Oregon legislators are proposing a new law to cut parents out of the process entirely.