Patriots Star Defends Parents in Gender Custody Fight

Liberty Check

• Parents retain God-given authority to raise children according to Biblical truth rather than state ideology.
• Due process and presumption of innocence are constitutional safeguards being ignored by Massachusetts officials.
• Public figures who place faith above career pressure strengthen the fight for parental rights nationwide.

New England Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson refused to back down Thursday when reporters grilled him about a social media post supporting a Massachusetts family locked in a custody battle with the Department of Children and Families.

The Kutzko family claims state agents removed their teenage daughter after the parents declined to approve medical procedures aimed at transitioning the girl to a male identity.

Henderson shared a Fox News clip and Scripture in the post, declaring, “These parents who want to honor our Lord and lead their daughter into the truth, and away from what she can’t see that will destroy her just as God has entrusted the parents to do. May justice be served.”

His message quickly gained traction, surpassing 3.5 million views by Thursday evening.

At the team facility in Foxboro, reporters peppered the devout Christian with questions about the post, rivaling inquiries about the upcoming matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“Yeah, I think the biggest thing, what I saw on my end is I saw the, the state take away someone’s child because they didn’t want to affirm the daughter as a boy,” Henderson explained. “And I heard that the school, without the parents’ permission, tried to transition a child or do some sort of thing to transition her into a boy.”

“And I don’t believe that’s right. I believe the family, being a Catholic family and having certain morals that they go by and live by, they have the God-given right to raise up their kid, to know the Lord, to honor the Lord.”

“…I think what they were doing, trying to raise up their kid the right way from, from what I’ve read and heard, I think that the family did right by not affirming their daughter as a boy, but choosing to affirm her the way that God created her to be as a girl.”

Local reports alleging the father pulled the daughter’s hair and threatened violence were raised by reporters. Those charges produced no criminal findings and are set to be dropped if the father maintains distance from the child.

“It doesn’t mean that he was guilty of those charges,” Henderson said. “It’s just accusations. Just as the same way people make accusations against me, it doesn’t mean that those accusations are true. It’s just accusations at the end of the day.”

“I think you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty. So if he was guilty, then that’s on me, because I didn’t know all of that. But if he’s not guilty, if these are just accusations that they’re making about the father, then I don’t think that’s right to run away with that and say, the father did this, so we have to take his daughter away.”

“I still don’t think that’s right.”

Henderson says his stance flows from a deeper calling that now ranks above football.

“I think my perspective of this world has changed,” he said. “I just try to look at this world through a Biblical lens now, and, yeah, I feel the calling on my life. I’m not here to just play football. I think I have it in my bio that football is what I do, but a child of God is who I am.”

“And so, first and foremost, I’m going to honor God above all else. I know it comes with a cause. But like the Bible says, like, what do I gain if I hold on to my life, but at the end of the day, I lose it? But if I lose my life for His name’s sake, then I gain true life, and that’s what I gained.”

“With this game or without this game, with money or without money, as long as I have Jesus, I got everything that I need,” he concluded. “And so my heart is fulfilled. And I’ll continue to honor the Lord and live for him, no matter what it costs me, because I know at the end of the day, it’ll all be worth it.”

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