Parents Are Losing Authority and Washington Must Act

By Emily Washburn | Commentary, Daily Citizen

Erin Friday champions parental rights at the highest levels of government.

The attorney and mother spent last week on Capitol Hill, rallying to keep boys out of girls sports and urging members of congress to protect parents who do not affirm their children’s sexual identity confusion.

Earlier this month, Friday met with the White House Domestic Policy Council to propose an executive order she’d written to prevent family courts and child placement organizations from discriminating against parents who affirm their children’s sex.

Friday’s passionate defense of parents began in 2020, when her 13-year-old daughter declared herself “transgender.”

“Her school secretly socially transitioned her when she was starting ninth grade,” Friday told the Daily Citizen.

It was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Friday’s daughter had never set foot in her high school, yet her instructors saw fit to call her a boy.  

“When I called the school to tell them to stop calling [my daughter] a boy and using male pronouns, they told me that they needed to be a ‘safe space’ for her,” Friday recalled, ruefully.

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