Read The Full Story of Sage Blair, Teen Gender Madness Victim Mentioned in Trump's SOTU

Excerpted from Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology

Anyone who knows me, knows I’m not a Trump fan. But there’s one issue on which I’m with him 100 percent: protecting our children from gender insanity.

So, I’m glad the president invited Sage Blair and her parents to his State of the Union speech last night. Though he spoke briefly of her ordeal, a couple of minutes can’t possibly communicate what this young woman and her family endured.

And if you were to read the highly sanitized The New York Times’ version of her story, you would have no clue how grievously she and her family suffered at the hands of gender ideologues.

That’s why I’m excerpting and re-printing, below, what I wrote about Sage’s ordeal in Sacrificial Lambs. As you read the following, please realize that this is just one of hundreds, possibly thousands of similar tragedies resulting from the ideological capture of our institutions: schools, the justice system, and the legacy media universe that helps to indoctrinate adults.

Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology by Anita Bartholomew

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When she was an eighth-grader, Sage Blair of Appomattox, Virginia, an artistic but deeply troubled teen, told her grandmother, Michele—who had adopted her when she was tiny and was legally her parent—that all the girls in her class claimed to be bi, trans, or lesbian. Michele isn’t sure when, but Sage eventually followed the crowd, opting for a new “identity,” possibly while she was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital that summer.

When she started high school, Sage’s school counselor was eager for Sage embrace a cross-sex identity. But the counselor told Sage that the other girls weren’t comfortable sharing the girls’ bathroom with someone who identified as a boy, so she should use the boys’ bathroom, instead. Sage told the counselor that the boys bullied her when she did so, and several threatened to rape and otherwise harm her. But the school kept most of this information, including Sage’s male name (Draco), from her grandparents.

Eventually, it all came out, and her grandparents promised she wouldn’t have to go back to the school where she was being tormented. But that same night, Sage escaped through a window and ran away, leaving a note for her grandparents that said she loved them.

The teen—petite, frail, and under 100 pounds—was immediately abducted by a stranger. He drugged and violently raped the fourteen-year old virgin in the backseat of his car. He then took her to Washington, DC, where he passed her around to several other men.

A week later, the FBI tracked the missing girl to a locked room in the Baltimore home of a registered sex offender. Once law enforcement rescued her, they contacted Michele and her husband Roger to let them know where they could come to pick her up the following morning.

The nightmare should have ended there.

Anyone with half a heart and a functioning brain would do everything possible to quickly reunite a brutalized child with the family members who loved her, right?

But between the time Sage was rescued and the following morning, when Michele and Roger were scheduled to pick her up, the court appointed a public defender to represent Sage. And once that legal representative heard the magic word “transgender,” all bets were off. Michele and Roger had referred to Sage as Sage. That made them non-affirming and “abusive” in the public defender’s eyes; she got child protective services to open an investigation into the Blairs.

While the Blairs fought to regain custody of their child, the Maryland court placed the diminutive girl in a juvenile detention center. A boys’ juvenile detention center, of course, to match Sage’s assumed male identity.

The boys she was housed with sexually assaulted her. Much later Sage would tell her grandparents (who had been desperately fighting to get her home) that no one had told her they were battling the legal system to regain custody. She said, instead, that one of the people in Maryland actually claimed that her parents didn’t want her any more and that she was going to be placed with a Maryland family who would “affirm” her male identity.

So, again, Sage ran away. And predictably, a predator awaited. He lured her to Texas. There, he raped her. He starved her. He tortured her.

This time it was months before law enforcement found and rescued her. As soon as they did, they contacted Michele who flew out to Texas to get her.

Sage, at last, was back in Virginia, but the harrowing experience left her in need of round-the-clock psychiatric treatment.

And yet, it could have been worse.

What if, instead of being lured to Texas, it had been a “blue” state that again, refused to return the girl?

Who knows how Sage’s story would have ended?