A Catholic couple from Indiana reportedly had their transgender child removed from their household by the Indiana Department of Child Services because they refused to use their trans-son’s pronouns.

The couple is now urging the Supreme Court to allow their child to live with them again, as they were not abused but did not support their child’s pronouns due to their religious beliefs.

https://twitter.com/TimOnPoint/status/1760084895106257237

The folks at Fox News share more on the story:

In M.C. and J.C. v. Indiana Department of Child Services, Mary and Jeremy Cox are appealing to the Supreme Court after they were investigated by Indiana officials for refusing to refer to their son using pronouns and a name inconsistent with his biological sex.

Becket is pursuing the case on behalf of the Coxes, arguing state courts allowed Indiana to keep the child from living in his parents’ home due to their disagreement with the child’s gender identity because of their religious beliefs. Notably, upon completing the investigation, the state determined the allegations of abuse against Mary and Jeremy were unsubstantiated, but still argued that the disagreement over gender identity was distressing to their child.

Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, told Fox News Digital that no parent should ever have to endure what Mary and Jeremy have been forced to go through.

“Keeping a child away from loving parents because of their religious beliefs—even when the state admits there was no abuse or neglect—is wrong and it’s against the law,” she said. “The Court should take this case and make clear that other states can’t take children away because of ideological disagreements.”

In 2019, Mary and Jeremy’s son told them that he identified as a girl, but in line with their Catholic religious beliefs that God created human beings with an immutable sex, male or female, they did not believe in referring to him using pronouns and a name inconsistent with his biology.

People online are outraged overhearing this story.

Can you blame them?

Imagine your child ripped away from you because you didn’t want to indulge in their fantasy.

The Daily Mail shares more here:

The DCS received allegations that the child’s physical and mental condition was endangered by her parents who were not referring to her by her preferred pronouns. Reports of alleged verbal and emotional abuse over the teen’s gender identity were filed. They are allegations the Coxes deny.

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office argued the conflict over the child’s gender identity was not why the state took her away from her parents.

‘Rather, petitioners’ child was removed because the child had a severe eating disorder that petitioners had not been able to effectively address for two years, that jeopardized the child’s brain and bone health,’ the attorney general’s office argued.

In 2021, Indiana officials investigated the couple and placed the child in a ‘gender affirming’ home.

The Coxes took their case to trial court, where the decision to remove the child and restrict visitation rights was upheld.

Can someone explain to me in the comments how not using the correct pronouns is going to endanger a child’s life physically?

 

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