Parents fight to protect gender-confused daughter taken away by Swiss social services

Parents in Switzerland are in a legal battle after social services took away their 16-year-old daughter because they refused to affirm her ‘gender identity’.

The unnamed parents discovered their daughter’s gender confusion in 2021 following other mental health concerns. But after they challenged her school for ‘socially transitioning’ her without their consent, she was placed in a Government-funded youth shelter in April 2023.

Now, after failing to regain authority over their daughter’s medical professionals, they are appealing against a court order that forces them to provide documents which would enable her to change her legal sex.

‘Nightmare’

The girl’s father said: “The story is truly a nightmare. Swiss authorities have taken our child, our daughter, who’s 16 years old. My daughter now lives in a government home. Our access to her is regulated by the government.”

The parents stated that they “can’t believe we live in a society where your child can be taken away from you simply for trying to protect her. We want our daughter back home. We love her and we miss her”.

The story is truly a nightmare.

The family’s lawyer, Dr Felix Boellmann of Alliance Defending Freedom, said: “No society can claim to be free if parents can lose their daughter solely for affirming biological reality.”

‘Bigoted’

Last year, a foster mother told The Daily Telegraph that a teacher reported her to social services for questioning the promotion of gender ideology in her children’s school.

The mum raised concerns that the school’s Relationships and Sex Education lessons were ideological and unbalanced. Some classes used the discredited ‘Genderbread Person’ diagram, which claims there are an infinite number of gender identity “options” and that sex ‘exists on a continuum’.

Although the teacher accepted that the children were “well presented, well fed, looked after physically and loved”, she claimed they might grow up with “similar bigoted viewpoints”.

The mum, who had fostered for several “exemplary years”, said: “Although you’re given children that initially you don’t know, by raising them and having them in your family you grow to love them as your own. And they are precious to me.”