00:27:24.860Here's a report from Luke Rosiak over the Daily Wire.
00:27:27.720A 14-year-old transgender runaway from Virginia endured a six-month nightmare that saw her twice fall into the hands of sex traffickers.
00:27:34.660The second time after Baltimore bureaucrats refused to return her to her home state because they accused her adoptive parents of misgendering her.
00:27:43.640According to records reviewed by the Daily Wire.
00:27:45.560The child, identified in legal documents as Sage, was adopted by her biological grandmother, Michelle Blair, after the death of her father.
00:27:53.500Long troubled, Sage began identifying as a male named Draco and ran away from their rural home in late August 2021, only to end up on the mean streets of Baltimore, where authorities rescued her from a convicted sex offender, according to records.
00:28:06.400But, instead of returning the child to her grandmother, Maryland officials put her in an inner-city group home.
00:28:11.900The reason, they thought her adoptive, blood-relative parents didn't seem to sufficiently recognize her transgender identity.
00:28:20.660So, these bureaucrats decided that this young girl is better off in a group home in Baltimore City than with her grandmother.
00:28:32.120Because her grandmother would commit the sin of recognizing her as a girl, rather than as a boy named Draco.
00:28:44.100It's not possible to return the child to that home.
00:28:46.960He said this after an impassioned plea from Baltimore Assistant Public Defender Anissa Khan.
00:28:51.420Instead, the judge turned Sage over to the Baltimore City Department of Juvenile Services for placement in a hardware-secure therapeutic facility,
00:28:58.720which makes reasonable accommodation for respondents' expressed male gender and desire to live as a trans male.
00:29:03.980That meant housing the girl just rescued from a sex offender with some of Baltimore's most troubled biological males.
00:29:13.260Oh, right, that's the other thing, too, is that they're recognizing that this girl is a boy.
00:29:17.480You know, because you have a troubled, runaway girl whose father has died and who is not only trying to escape her where she lived physically,
00:29:33.360but trying to escape her very identity.
00:29:35.240And rather than giving her the therapy and counseling and the love and support that she obviously desperately needs,
00:29:44.020because she is deeply confused, understandably so,