Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents

In August 2021, by concealing a teen’s newly asserted transgender identity from her parents, Virginia’s Appomattox County High School participated in a chain of events that led to that girl falling into the hands of sexual predators not once, but twice.

Sage (last names withheld from privacy) was victimized in Maryland by a predatory sexual predator. When she was found by the FBI, a judge refused her return to her parents. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. She fled quickly and was then brutally sex-traficked until she was rescued by Texas law enforcement.

Sage’s Law, or the Child Protection Act, is being introduced this week in the Virginia House of Delegates by Delegate Dave LaRock in honor of this young teen from Appomattox County, Virginia. Sage hopes that sharing her story will encourage others to avoid the same abuses she suffered at hands of predators. This was partly due to the institutions that should have protected Sage.

State laws and school policies that encourage parents to hide information from minors are intended to protect them. In practice, as tragically demonstrated by Sage’s case, such policies open the door to predators by removing children’s greatest protection from their lives.

Sage’s Law aims to shut that door in three ways. It would require schools to notify parents if their child asserts a gender different from his or her sex; it prevents school counselors from withholding or encouraging minors to withhold information about a child’s gender identity; and it clarifies that raising a child according to his or her biological sex, including decisions about a child’s mental and physical health, may not be construed as abuse.

Sage’s story, compiled from months of interviews, reports, and records, has been lived by countless other families Torn apart by activists in the name gender ideology schools, judges, and doctors. This is a story of the unbearable cost of parent-exclusion policies, but also of a mother’s love and relentless determination to save her child. 

Institutions that should protect endangerment instead

Sage, a petite, pretty 15-year-old girl, has elfin features, and a sassy style. She recently told her mother about her transgender identity, after reflecting on it. “I don’t know who I was. I’m a totally different person now. I never was a boy. Everybody was doing it, I just wanted to have friends.”

Self-reflection is consistent in the research Research shows that up to 80 percent are gender dysphoric children embrace Their sex after puberty. Children who are “affirmed” However, it is the opposite of sex and especially if you are puberty blockers Are used, continue to be used further medicalization. Sage’s comment also reflects the reality of social contagionPowered by social media, and growing recognized International as a Factor in the exponentiAn increase in transgender children.

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