Swiss parents suffer for daughter in gender case, Elon Musk criticizes the government

A Swiss couple fights the government to get their 16-year-old daughter back. Parents could be convicted for denying access to puberty-blocking chemicals. Elon Musk spoke out about the case on July 12, commenting through your X account (formerly Twitter) that the situation is “crazy.”

Musk responded to a video from ADF Internationalin which the young woman’s parents—who keep their identity secret for their children’s safety and privacy—claim that the Swiss government ignored 16 years of parenting and took their daughter from them.

“We want our daughter to return home,” says the mother, in statements collected by ADF International. The teenager has already been held in a government shelter for about a year. “The story is really a nightmare,” her father tells the legal organization.

Both parents say they feel victims of an alliance between their daughter’s school, the Swiss Child Protection Agency and the Swiss Hospital in Geneva. A few years ago, the teenager informed them “that she was a boy,” her parents understood the situation as “a difficult period in her life” and agreed to seek medical help and advice.

The hospital instructed the young woman’s parents to start treating her like a boy, and so “everyone at school: teachers and administrative workers, started referring to her with a male name,” says her father.

The parents claimed to the institution that it was not up to them to “socially transition” their daughter, but they were ignored. Thus, the school together with an organization that advocates for “transgender rights” called The shelterthey managed to convince the girl that he was a boy trapped in a female body.

Eventually, the parents continue, the Swiss Child Protection Agency filed a lawsuit against them in the Swiss court system, with the support of their daughter’s school, which has meant for them “many sleepless nights, a lot of pain and a feeling of hopelessness.” ”.

ADF International notes that the parents face great pressure from the authorities, who have spent large sums of money on legal fees and could soon be sentenced.

“No human being is born in the wrong body. Taking a teenager and telling him that he was born in the wrong body is cruel,” says his father.

Various activists react to the case

Elon Musk also expressed about the case that “this virus of the suicidal mind is spreading throughout Western civilization,” through your X account.

However, Tesla’s CEO was not the only one to speak out. Felix Boellmann, ADF International’s lead attorney on the case, stated: “Children who are uncomfortable with their biological sex deserve to be treated with dignity and need compassionate mental health care, which these parents have gone to great lengths to provide.” .

Amy Gallagher, a mental health nurse practitioner who sued the Tavistock Clinic from the United Kingdom, said: “This case is terrifying. These parents have had their daughter taken away from them by a State captured by gender ideology. I trust in faith and hope that the parents, with the support of ADF International, convince the legal authorities in Switzerland that this is not the way forward and the girl is reunited with her parents as soon as possible.”

“Swiss authorities should take into account the results of the Cass Report and the increasingly widespread opinion that the affirmation of transsexuality is dangerous,” he added.

Finally, Kellie-Jay Keen, a women’s rights defender, indicated that there is “global pressure to destroy families and access our children,” according to ADF International.

“The suppression of feminine language, especially around motherhood, is part of it. Mothers are the protectors of children, fathers are the protectors of families. “The State does not know or love our children better than their parents,” she said.

And he concluded: “Parents should not sleepwalk away from our most important duty: protecting our children. Trust your instincts and talk to your children.”