Child loving 'raw green vegetables' was a sign of transgenderism, mother claims in viral video

BATON ROUGE, La. (TND) — During testimony this week in the Louisiana State Legislature, a mother told lawmakers her child's "odd" food choices, particularly an affinity for "raw green vegetables," was an indicator her child was transgender.

The woman's comments came in response to a bill, HB 463, circulating in the Louisiana State Legislature that would largely prohibit transgender procedures for minors. Earlier this week, the Louisiana House's Health and Welfare Committee advanced HB 463, but before doing so, took testimony from individuals both in favor and against the new legislative measure.

"We couldn't figure out what the problem was. We took him to specialists and neurologists, and he had brain scans trying to figure out why he couldn't sleep," a mother of a biological girl who is now a trans male told lawmakers in her testimony. "As he grew, he got to sleeping. But his food choices were odd. They were always like green vegetables, raw green vegetables, which, if you know kids, most kids don't like to eat those things," the mother continued.

"Once we figured out that he was transgender, when he came to us and told us that he was transgender, we went back and realized that the pattern of everything he had experienced as a child — including eating green vegetables, because that boosts testosterone — were just methods of his body trying to become who he was meant to be," she added. "His brain does not match his physiology."

A separate mother whose testimony followed was similarly just as shocking. She claimed to have seen signs in her child, as early as 18 months after they were born, indicating they were transgender. Furthermore, the mother said that at age 11, her child would begin the process of getting on puberty blockers.

"I was Christmas shopping for them, they were 18-months-old, and I bought one of those toy tool benches and I was making a joke that, 'Well, when one of them comes to me and says they're a man when they're 18, I can't say I didn't see it coming.' Just cause they kind of did draw to boy toys, but I was just making a joke," the mother said.

"I am so glad I said it out loud, because I have that in my mind now that at 18 months old, something, something, somewhere was telling me what he knew all along," she added.

"So we saw therapists and we saw doctors and ultimately we came to know what he has known all along, which is that he really is a boy, he really is. And I will be starting gender-affirming care for him," the mother continued. "So now that he's almost 11, and starting puberty, we are discussing puberty blockers. And what that would do, it would prevent him from growing the body of a woman because I promise you he isn't a woman, he shouldn't be in a woman's body, and honestly, I don't think he could survive if we forced him into it. I really don't."

Following the state House committee's advancement of HB 463, the bill will proceed to the House floor for a full vote. If passed, Louisiana would become just the latest in an increasingly growing list of states to ban, or restrict, transgender procedures for minors.