{"id":1388857,"date":"2022-03-18T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388857"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:14:58","slug":"im-broken-ca-mom-whose-daughter-committed-suicide-after-transitioning-blames-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-broken-ca-mom-whose-daughter-committed-suicide-after-transitioning-blames-school\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Broken\u2019: CA Mom Whose Daughter Committed Suicide After \u2018Transitioning\u2019 Blames School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-broken-ca-mom-whose-daughter-committed-suicide-after-transitioning-blames-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388857&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-660739844.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A California mother whose teenage daughter committed suicide at the age of 19 is blaming the girl\u2019s high school for encouraging her daughter to identify as male and taking her daughter away from her.<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Martinez, whose daughter Yaeli had suffered from depression as a young teenager and later identified as \u201cAndrew,\u201d told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10612285\/California-mom-claims-LA-school-encouraged-daughter-transition-blame-suicide.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> that Yaeli\u2019s school encouraged her to take hormones, undergo gender\u00a0reassignment surgery, to secretly join an LGBT group and not to speak to her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, 53, a mother of four, who filed a\u00a02020 civil lawsuit against LA County and its Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS), \u201csaid an older trans student \u2018coached\u2019 Yaeli on what to tell social workers to put her into foster care, so that the state would pay for her gender reassignment,\u201d The Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Foran, a spokesman for the Arcadia School District, stated, \u201cWe share in the sorrow and grief of the Martinez family and continue to offer our sincerest condolences. While we are unable to provide personal information or comment regarding a specific student due to state and federal laws protecting the privacy of student information, any claim or assertion that would suggest our school encouraged one of our students to take hormones and undergo gender reassignment surgery would be categorically false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, a claim suggesting our school or a staff member did not properly treat a student\u2019s severe depression is both completely inaccurate and troubling as our schools and staff would not be authorized or medically qualified to treat clinical depression,\u201d he continued. \u201cHowever, our staff works tirelessly to provide and suggest resources, when appropriate, to help connect students and families with licensed mental health professionals to treat conditions such as clinical depression. We have a very caring staff that is dedicated to providing a safe, nondiscriminatory school environment for all students. We also continually provide resources to promote the healthy mental, emotional, and social well-being of all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez stated that Yaeli showed signs of depression by 8th grade after being bullied and started questioning her sexuality at around 15 years old. She continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Once she moved to high school, by the beginning of sophomore year things changed drastically. \u2026 She talked to her sister about how she liked girls. She was questioning her sexuality. It was a shock, but she was trying to find out her identity. It\u2019s normal, what children don\u2019t go through that at that age? \u2026 But I never imagined what the school would do. \u2026 The school was telling her to go to these LGBT groups behind my back. She went from questioning her sexuality to her gender. \u2026 She had these peers at school two years older than her. They were the ones who brought these ideas \u2013 \u201cMaybe you\u2019re depressed because don\u2019t you feel like you\u2019re a boy?\u201d \u2013 and the school was supportive of that. \u2026 The school told her these groups were the place to go, and I didn\u2019t need to know about it. \u2026 I asked her what was going on, and she tried to deny it, because she was told that if she talked about it at home, I would not support it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t like the idea [of transitioning],\u201d Martinez said. \u201cBut I just wanted her to find out what was leading her to go that way. I explained to the social workers it\u2019s not going to work. My daughter needs mental health help. You have to go from the inside out. If she\u2019s happy with herself that\u2019s all we need. Focus on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2022\/march\/ca-mom-says-state-pushed-teen-daughter-into-transgender-treatments-leading-her-to-commit-suicide\">The Heritage Foundation<\/a>, Martinez said, \u201cThe school counselor was involved, DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) was involved, LGBT was in there too, trying to \u2018help\u2019 my daughter on the transition of being transgender. I was accused that I didn\u2019t want to open my eyes since she felt since she was a little girl that she was a boy which was not true. She was not even close to a tomboy \u2026 she was the girlie girl in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of proper treatment for mental illness, Martinez said her daughter was encouraged by the school and her LGBT support group to take hormones and pursue gender reassignment surgery, and cut Martinez out of the process,\u201d The Daily Mail wrote. \u201cYaeli was allegedly told by her trans peers that the only way she could get it paid for by the state was if she was in foster care.\u00a0Martinez said one trans friend and their parents \u2018coached\u2019 Yaeli, persuading her to run away from home in July 2016 and tell the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) that her mother had slapped her in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never was abusive to my children. I love my children,\u201d Martinez stated. \u201cI never slapped her. But she was coached by this family what to tell the authorities so they cannot send her back home with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was placed in foster care by a judge; Martinez said, \u201c\u2019On the visit days, when she came to my house, I was told not to talk about God. They told me if you do that, you\u2019ll never see your daughter. But I brought meals to share with her on Saturdays, and we prayed before eating. She would close her eyes and bow her head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texts show Yaeli telling her mother, \u201cI can be difficult sometimes but I really love you Mama,\u201d \u201cI love you lots,\u201d and \u201cI love you and remember you are strong. I\u2019m so proud of you for everything you\u2019ve done. \u2026 I\u2019m really happy to have you as my mom. You mean the world to me. \u2026 You\u2019re the best mom anyone could ask for. You constantly sacrifice yourself for others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez commented, \u201cI knew that the hormones wouldn\u2019t work. She was taken away from my house because they wanted to save her life. My question to all of them is where is my daughter now? Why did they play with her life? \u2026 I\u2019m broken. My family life is not going to be the same ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roger Severino, a former civil rights director for the federal Department of Health and Human Services who has helped Martinez, told The Daily Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The state got between a young girl in trouble and the person who loved her the most, her mother. Instead of working through the underlying depression, they put Abi\u2019s daughter on a one-way track straight to transition and chemical interventions that would lead to permanent sterilization as a kid. Because the state took Abi\u2019s daughter away, her depression got worse. And without having her mother\u2019s love, she took her own life. I think the school district ultimately is responsible for her death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24\/7 at 1-800-273-8255.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California mother whose teenage daughter committed suicide at the age of 19 is blaming the girl\u2019s high school for encouraging her daughter to identify as male and taking her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}