LGBTQ Activist: ‘To Hell with This Idea of Parental Rights’

TikTok Activist: “Let’s talk about parental rights for a second, because it’s become evident that it’s being used currently in this fight against queer people, and especially queer kids who need more protections than ever before. Like in Saskatchewan and in the U.S. parental rights are being used to thwart any rights of autonomy that the kid might have — and I’m sorry, but kids do have autonomy. We’ve already established this. For example, if a kid needs a blood transfusion, and the parents don’t want to, it’s not the parents right to refuse that blood transfusion for that kid, because it is life saving. In the same respect if a kid only needs to, like use a different name and pronoun in school, there might be a reason and a good reason they’re not coming out at home, and they need a safe place to be themselves. And so, to hell with this idea of parental rights when it comes to kids who have their own consent and then their own bodily autonomy and their own autonomy to their personhood that needs to be protected.”