An Oregon mother of five claims she was denied approval for adoption based on her religious beliefs concerning gender, as she refused to take the state’s ‘gender ideology’ training.

Jessica Bates, who believes there are only two genders, is now taking the fight to the courts and suing the state for violating her Constitutional rights. During an interview on “Fox and Friends” Bates explained that she had “successfully made it through some of the training” for adoption and was already “several months into the process” of adopting a pair of twins when she was asked to take a ‘sexual identity gender orientation training’ class.  The training is required by Oregon as a part of the adoption process.

After emailing her certifier that she would not “take a child for cross-sex hormone injections” she was told that she was ineligible to adopt in the state of Oregon.

“I emailed her and told her I couldn’t do that because of my faith, and then we had a phone call and, because I wouldn’t take a child for cross-sex hormone injections, I was basically told that I’m ineligible to adopt in the state of Oregon,” said Bates.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) states that cross-sex hormone therapy “changes the physical characteristics of transgender women to match their gender identity and expression.” In addition the International Society for Sexual Medicine said that, “Cross-sex hormone therapy is a treatment used to help people with gender dysphoria transition from their biological gender to their desired gender.”

Moreover, the NIH claims that gender dysphoria is most common at the age of seven. Gender dysphoria is a diagnosable disorder under the DSM-5. Rather then finding out the root cause of what ignited the gender dysphoria and treating the mental health side of the diagnosis, states like Oregon, use the DSM-5 to justify medical procedures such as cross-sex hormone therapy and a slew of other irreversible procedures for children who, are not at an age to rational decisions for themselves.

Bate’s legal team filed suit against the Oregon’s Resource and Adoptive Family (RAFT) stating that the training program would require parents who are looking to adopt, “use a child’s preferred pronouns, take a child to affirming events like Pride parades, or sign the child up for dangerous pharmaceutical interventions like puberty blockers and hormone shots.”

Bates and her legal team hope that their battle against the this woke ideology will bring change to Oregon’s discriminatory policy and will be another step in the battle to keeping our children safe.

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