According to the family – whose identity was withheld upon request – the boy was sent to CNH in November 2021 after he attempted to end his life when his girlfriend broke up with him. It came as a surprise that the boy suddenly expressed wanting to be identified as a female when he was in the hospital.
The lawsuit accused CNH of a “full-on campaign to transgender this child” with “mental re-programming,” including sending letters to friends declaring he is now a female. According to the lawsuit, the medical facility diagnosed the child with gender dysphoria and held him for 41 days. The institution also moved him to foster services instead of releasing him to his parents.
What worried the family more was that the single foster mother who took him had a previous assault charge. She was also alleged to be a close friend of Lavender Kelley, the hospital’s activist “non-gendered” chaplain. When the son once again attempted to commit suicide the following year, he came back to the hospital, but this time identifying as a girl.
“We had never known of our son’s purported desire or plan to change genders,” the family said. “Rather than treating us as patrons with legal and dignitary rights, the defendant… treated the parents as though they had harmed their son, even though the parents had never endangered their child and had home-schooled him to college entry at fourteen years old.”
“At [CNH], it is as if all critical reasoning toward the child was suspended, and there was no investigation into the extent that the child was lying,” the lawsuit further indicated.
The family is seeking a trial by jury and $100 million in damages to compensate for the hefty legal expenses they have accrued fighting for their son. The family had no choice but to sell their home and a “thriving” business to keep up with the expenses.
“This is the craziest case I’ve ever had,” said attorney Amos Jones, who is representing the parents. “I don’t know why there are people who think this makes sense. But I guess lots of people agree with this in Washington D.C. now.”
Studies: Kids outgrow gender dysphoria by late adolescence
According to various studies, more than 80 percent of children suffering from gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and the gender alteration procedures would only fail to resolve the teenagers’ tendency to self-harm and commit suicide.
Published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the paper said 11 percent of the respondents expressed “gender non-contentedness” to varying degrees. But upon reaching the age 25, just four percent said they were often or sometimes unhappy with their gender.
“The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common,” the researchers concluded. “Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general, decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development.”
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