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Ohio might finally grow a spine and protect parents who aren't keen on playing along with their kid's latest fantasy about being the opposite sex. The Buckeye State could actually stand up for moms and dads who prefer biology over the current trendy delusion.
As the piece notes: "No parent should lose custody, face state intervention, or be deemed unfit simply for affirming a child's sex."
Ohio Rep. Josh Williams, one of the bill's co-sponsors, put it plainly to conservative outlet, The Daily Wire: "No parent should lose custody, face state intervention, or be deemed unfit simply for affirming a child’s sex. The Affirming Families First Act restores common sense to our child-welfare and family-law systems by making clear that affirming biological sex is not abuse, neglect, or contrary to a child’s best interest, it is a protected parental right."
The proposed Affirming Families First Act would slam the brakes on the nonsense where the state swoops in and yanks kids away because Mom and Dad won't jump on the "affirm" bandwagon. Parents could keep using their gender-confused child's original name and pronouns without some social worker or judge deciding that's grounds for losing custody. Courts couldn't ding them for it in parental responsibility decisions, and state agencies would be barred from wasting taxpayer dollars on training sessions that declare "affirming biological sex" to be some form of child abuse.
Fellow co-sponsor Rep. Gary Click didn't mince words either: "It's unconscionable to think that local government entities would flag a parent as being a danger to their son for declining to buy him a dress or call ‘him,' 'her.' We will not tolerate such government overreach in the state of Ohio."
This isn't some isolated outbreak of sanity. Other states are already telling the gender zealots to pound sand. Indiana's Gov. Mike Braun signed something similar back in May 2025. North Carolina's Josh Stein (yeah, even he) pushed through a law banning child welfare probes into parents who stick to biological reality despite the usual Democrat wailing. Texas tweaked its criminal code to make sure this stuff doesn't count as abuse. Georgia and New Hampshire have bills in the works too.
Ohio's been a real hotspot for the crazy, though.
Ohio Rep. Josh Williams, one of the bill's co-sponsors, put it plainly to conservative outlet, The Daily Wire: "No parent should lose custody, face state intervention, or be deemed unfit simply for affirming a child’s sex. The Affirming Families First Act restores common sense to our child-welfare and family-law systems by making clear that affirming biological sex is not abuse, neglect, or contrary to a child’s best interest, it is a protected parental right."
The proposed Affirming Families First Act would slam the brakes on the nonsense where the state swoops in and yanks kids away because Mom and Dad won't jump on the "affirm" bandwagon. Parents could keep using their gender-confused child's original name and pronouns without some social worker or judge deciding that's grounds for losing custody. Courts couldn't ding them for it in parental responsibility decisions, and state agencies would be barred from wasting taxpayer dollars on training sessions that declare "affirming biological sex" to be some form of child abuse.
Fellow co-sponsor Rep. Gary Click didn't mince words either: "It's unconscionable to think that local government entities would flag a parent as being a danger to their son for declining to buy him a dress or call ‘him,' 'her.' We will not tolerate such government overreach in the state of Ohio."
This isn't some isolated outbreak of sanity. Other states are already telling the gender zealots to pound sand. Indiana's Gov. Mike Braun signed something similar back in May 2025. North Carolina's Josh Stein (yeah, even he) pushed through a law banning child welfare probes into parents who stick to biological reality despite the usual Democrat wailing. Texas tweaked its criminal code to make sure this stuff doesn't count as abuse. Georgia and New Hampshire have bills in the works too.
Ohio's been a real hotspot for the crazy, though.
Cuyahoga County's child services crew got cozy with a federally funded push to ram gender ideology into every corner of family life. They cooked up this AFFIRM.ME program that had workers collecting "SOGIE" data (that's Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression for those not fluent in acronym-speak) on kids, even ones still living at home. They kept secret spreadsheets tracking whether parents were "rejecting" or "accepting" the child's chosen fantasy.
Back in April 2022, they mandated "conversations about SOGIE" with teens 13-21 to sniff out if the kid was "unsafe" because of parental "rejection" of their LGBTQ identity. The policy straight-up declared: "Youth in their own homes or in substitute care deserve to reside with affirming caregivers and other household members. We can help ensure this by safely identifying LGBTQ2S+ youth and understanding their individual needs."
They even bragged that AFFIRM.ME was a "blueprint" for the nation. The Biden crew loved it, calling them "trailblazers" while crafting foster care rules that basically held funding hostage to force affirmation nationwide. Texas AG Ken Paxton sued and won; the rule got binned in June 2025. Good riddance.
We've seen the horror stories elsewhere: parents in California, Indiana, Virginia, and Maryland losing their kids just for saying "no, you're still my daughter/son." Erin Lee in Colorado got CPS sicced on her for affirming her 12-year-old daughter's actual sex after the school did the grooming number.
As Laura Hanford from the DeVos Center told the outlet: "Tragically, kids have been harmed, trafficked and even died in state care after being removed from their families on these false claims of abuse. Thousands more have been denied access to loving foster families who affirm reality. There is no scientific evidence or marker for 'gender identity,' yet parents from coast to coast have lost their children for refusing to adopt this belief system."
Back in April 2022, they mandated "conversations about SOGIE" with teens 13-21 to sniff out if the kid was "unsafe" because of parental "rejection" of their LGBTQ identity. The policy straight-up declared: "Youth in their own homes or in substitute care deserve to reside with affirming caregivers and other household members. We can help ensure this by safely identifying LGBTQ2S+ youth and understanding their individual needs."
They even bragged that AFFIRM.ME was a "blueprint" for the nation. The Biden crew loved it, calling them "trailblazers" while crafting foster care rules that basically held funding hostage to force affirmation nationwide. Texas AG Ken Paxton sued and won; the rule got binned in June 2025. Good riddance.
We've seen the horror stories elsewhere: parents in California, Indiana, Virginia, and Maryland losing their kids just for saying "no, you're still my daughter/son." Erin Lee in Colorado got CPS sicced on her for affirming her 12-year-old daughter's actual sex after the school did the grooming number.
As Laura Hanford from the DeVos Center told the outlet: "Tragically, kids have been harmed, trafficked and even died in state care after being removed from their families on these false claims of abuse. Thousands more have been denied access to loving foster families who affirm reality. There is no scientific evidence or marker for 'gender identity,' yet parents from coast to coast have lost their children for refusing to adopt this belief system."
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Parental rights advocate Erin Friday nails the bigger picture: "All roads lead to sex-rejecting interventions when child welfare programs get involved with a child who is distressed about their sex. The entire network of child welfare programs is being used to force parents to either subject their child to sex-rejecting intervention or lose all contact with their child."
Ohio stepping up is a welcome dose of reality in a world gone mad. If this spreads, and it should, maybe we'll finally see the end of the state kidnapping kids because their parents won't cosign on puberty blockers and fantasy pronouns.
Parental rights advocate Erin Friday nails the bigger picture: "All roads lead to sex-rejecting interventions when child welfare programs get involved with a child who is distressed about their sex. The entire network of child welfare programs is being used to force parents to either subject their child to sex-rejecting intervention or lose all contact with their child."
Ohio stepping up is a welcome dose of reality in a world gone mad. If this spreads, and it should, maybe we'll finally see the end of the state kidnapping kids because their parents won't cosign on puberty blockers and fantasy pronouns.
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