Indiana parents are calling on the Supreme Court to weigh their case after the state government removed their child from their home once the child started identifying as transgender, according to a new petition.
When Mary and Jeremy Cox’s son in 2019 assumed a self-declared female identity, the Catholic couple refused to agree with their son’s declaration. In 2021, the Indiana government began investigating the Cox family after learning the parents did not accept their son’s chosen identity — and the government subsequently removed their son from their home and placed him in a home that “affirmed” his transgender identity.
The state’s removal of their son was prompted by abuse allegations against the Cox family, which were ultimately dropped, though the state still argued the “disagreement over gender identity was distressing to their child and contributed to his eating disorder,” according to
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