Every Parent's worst nightmare!

My friend, let’s call her Cecilia, was concerned about her teenage daughter. “Avery” had marked disposition and personality changes after she started to attend the local high school. Cecilia and her husband spent a lot of time and energy looking for answers. No stone was unturned; they had even requested a meeting with high school counselors and officials and asked if they had any clues to the problem. The high school officials professed no knowledge of any issues. Then Cecilia received a call from a friend. Avery had participated in the high school's Men’s pageant, as a boy.
     When Cecilia and her husband sat their daughter down to discuss the information, they found out that their daughter had decided she identified as a boy. Not only did the school lie about knowing what Avery was struggling with, but the school was also actively promoting and encouraging Avery’s new lifestyle choice. Her school counselor was providing her with pamphlets, they were identifying her as a male, and offered her access to community programs that would facilitate her choices.
     Because of the deception, the school had practiced on them, Cecilia and her husband decided they needed to pull Avery from school and work with her and a counselor of their choice. When the school became aware of the parents' intentions, they sent a social worker who told Avery’s parents that if they exercised their parental rights and pulled her/him from school, and if they did anything but fully support her lifestyle choice, they would remove Avery and all of Avery’s siblings from their home!
     I have known Avery and her family since she was a little girl. Both of her parents are actively engaged in parenting and are kind, generous, and loving people. They hold deep religious convictions, they believe in the words found in The Family; a Proclamation to the World that state;
    "We, the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children. . . .The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity."
     These loving parents were not O.K. with Avery’s choice, but I know that they would have worked  and used every resource offered to them to work towards understanding Avery's point of view. They would have found a compromise to live with until Avery was 18 years old and ready to leave home. Make no mistake, Cecilia and her husband would have stuck to their belief system but would have treated Avery with love and respect even in their firmest moments.
     What happened here was every parent’s worst nightmare! Some of you reading this will think I have made it up. You won’t believe that a government agency would/could strip parents of their rights in one fell blow. I believe that this is going to be more and more common. How did we get here you ask?
     I think the answer is found in the Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. (2015).  When the Court made a decision based on social policy instead of the law, the Majority opinion magnanimously promised to respect the rights of the religious dissenters. The claimed we would be able to “teach and advocate” according to our religious beliefs. They did not promise we could exercise our religious freedoms in our homes. In this case, Avery’s parents were not even allowed to teach or advocate for the lifestyle they felt would bring their daughter true happiness.
     This Supreme Court case wiped away religious protection with one broad stroke. No longer do we have the opportunity to discuss and move policy on this matter. This decision has taken away our rights as citizens to order our own lives. We need to be vocal and present in fighting for our religious liberties. Will you stand with me?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
https://www.lds.org/topics/family-proclamation?lang=eng&old=true