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Indiana: Christian Couple Petition SCOTUS to Review State’s Removal of Gender-Confused Son From Their Home

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A Christian couple in Indiana have filed a petition asking the US Supreme Court to review the state’s Department of Child Services (DCS) removal of their son from their home because they refused to use the female name and pronouns he had chosen for himself, CBN News reports.

Mary and Jeremy Cox filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the US high court after the Indiana Supreme Court refused to accept their case, CBN News reports.

The Cox child was removed after the DCS determined that a severe eating disorder he developed was due to the parents’ refusal to accept his new self-identification as a girl, CBN reports. The removal transpired despite the parents’ work with a counselor and nutritionist to help their child.

According to CBN News, the DCS had explained their decision to remove the boy by saying: “We just feel that at this point in time, this child needs to be in a home that’s not going to teach her that trans, like everything about transgender… tell her how she should think and how she should feel. However, she should be in a home where she is (accepted) for who she is.”

In a statement to CBN News, Jeremy Cox said: “When our son was removed it was like someone pulled the rug from underneath us. As a father, I believe one of my main goals is to keep my children safe and I can’t do that when the state comes into our house and takes our kids because we can’t in good conscience affirm his transgender ideology.”