The despotic powers of government agencies centered around woke ideology have forced a Catholic couple in Indiana to take their child custody battle to the Supreme Court. The couple’s son was taken away by the authorities because his parents wouldn’t accept his female gender identity.
The trouble for software engineer Jeremy Cox and his wife Mary Cox, a clinical studies manager, started at home in 2019 when their minor son declared himself a female. The parents did not agree with their son’s transgender beliefs and instead sought counseling for him to address his gender dysphoria and what they perceived were some underlying mental health issues, including an eating disorder.
In 2021 Indiana’s Department of Child Services launched an investigation into the issue. Later, a state court ordered to take the child away from the parents. The boy was placed in a foster home that “affirmed his transgender identity.”
After the legal battle went through various state courts, and the courts sided with the government, the Cox couple has finally taken the case to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The Becket and Hershberger Law Office that represents the parents issued a press release on February 15 to provide a brief history of the case to notify that the case is going before the SCOTUS. The release reminded that the investigation into the parents of the child in question did not find any evidence of child abuse by the parents:
After completing its investigation, Indiana made an about-face and abandoned all allegations against Mary and Jeremy, admitting that the accusations of abuse were unsubstantiated.
The release added that even though an appeal court found that the Coxes were “fit parents,” it upheld the removal of their child.
Defending the government, the Indiana Attorney General’s Office has claimed that the child’s eating disorder was partly caused by the parents’ beliefs. Therefore, the Child Protective Services (CPS) had to remove the child for medical reasons.
Earlier this week, Jeremy and Mary Cox appeared in a video to share their side of the story.
Conservatives on social media reacted to the victimization of the Cox family with anger and frustration, bemoaning the utter disregard for parental rights. Mike Engleman from Indiana posted the clip of the Cox couple’s interview on Twitter/X questioning how in his red state of Indiana parental rights have been taken away.
Author and radio talk show host Bo Snerdley warned that what happened to the Cox family can happen anywhere.
One conservative Twitter/X account commented that this case illustrates the communist left’s war on American children. He added: “The line in the sand has officially been crossed with this in Indiana. It’s time to fight.”
The problem of transgender identity in children is traceable to the elementary education system where liberal ideologies indoctrinate young minds into questioning their gender and even promoting homosexual behavior against the beliefs and values of traditional, conservative parents. In Indiana, Attorney General (AG) Todd Rokita angered the left recently by launching an online portal called “Eyes on Education” to allow concerned citizens to report indoctrination of school children by educators in various issues including race and gender. The Guardian cited Josh Lowry, a Democrat politician in the state, calling the move part of a “rightwing national agenda.”