i've got to go and have surgery done to straighten me up child protective services. they say if i don't find someone to keep him for the time that i'm in the hospital, they're going to take him from me. and i'm going to have to fight them to get him back. it's really, it's scary feeling. you know, i just take the baby away. you don't know whether we're going to go or if you're going to get him back. it's hard. you know, way when it comes to him to situation like this, but he knew it as it's really easy to lose these babies. it's really, really easy. you know, it's terrible. and they're you know, i know i heard all of my papers and once, but i've been here for 7 months, 7 whole month. fill out my application, form small moves house and you know, this was a lot of the base i don't get to do things again, only ever take my daughter to a store and bargain to go to the park. the weather's broken when i got here was the summertime, and now a woman's break him again. i want to be able to, you know, do things with my child that a mother should be able to do that. that's what

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'd home by child protection services, the case has sparked widespread outrage. the end of parenting as when you, we have no rights. our children can be seriously harmed by the government and medical profession. and we are powerless to stop it. i'm so sorry for what our society is doing to your family for have been they fled to slide this far. happened in my family. after age 14, parents have no right to medical information or their children. tragic. well let's bring in our political commentator, gina luton commentator on lawyer stephanie haden and women's rights advocate, reese of a certain good to have you all on. well, we thought this is clearly something that has sparked a lot of criticism, a lot of discussion. you know, i want to start with you in cases such as these and we do actually hear that, you know, this is not the 1st instance where a child is asking to change gender. who gets to make the decision? well, it should always be the parents, unless you know there is a history of abuse. that's to monster pull and proven in the course. you take a child at t

child protective services say if i don't find a person to keep him for the time i'm in the hospital, take him from me. it's a scary feeling. when they take your baby away, you don't know where they are going to go or if you are going to get him back. it's really easy to lose these babies, and it's terrible. >> i know i have all of my papers in one spot. i've been here for seven months. seven whole months. filling out my application for this woman's housing program in new york. i don't get to do things here. i don't get to take my daughter to the score and buy her candy and take her to the park. when i got here, it was summer time, and now the weather is breaking again. that's what this means to me. it makes me feel like i am actually doing something right for a change, even if i did not see it before. i see it now in this application . i see my life going further than just treatment. they say it's temporary, but it feels like forever when you are in here. feels like forever. >> fears of a humanitarian -- >> for one thing, i'm going to take this out of the door. we keep the facilities

people, child council seats, all the people who know their local tell the truth, the ground, the people to provide that service ensure you see that there is a difference between for tat, protecting the most vulnerable. and i think that goes without saying you're not advocating for essentially abandoning them, but there is another issue of you know, of the bottlenecks within the medical systems. we all know that in most countries the most pressing issue is not just the number of bags and mailable, the number of physicians available. and this is a very finite and easily and sauce double resource. and your puns would tell you that sure. the current strategy is blank, it's extremely expensive. it's harmful when it comes to the collateral damage, but ultimately it does what it's supposed to do and that is sort of slowing down. didn't hide all of new hospitalizations of more direct risk. call it 9000 patients who again, are not in the risk the risk of dying, but require a lot of medical assistance. they cannot be treated at home. many of them have to be taken to hospitals as have tried to say, try to prevent as many infections as possible in those high. but this page should say, the h