The SCOTUS Declines To Hear Appeal of Couple Whose Trans Daughter Was Removed

[Carolyn Marie]

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/scotus-declines-to-hear-appeal-of-indiana-couple-who-lost-custody-of-transgender-child

 

 

The article doesn't say if the Court provided a rationale for not taking up the case.  It might be because the case is now moot; the girl is now 18 years old.  Whatever the reason, the result, as well as the earlier decision to remove the daughter from her parent's custody, was the right one.

 

Carolyn Marie

[Charlize]

I have some trouble seeing this as particularly positive beyond the safety of this young trans woman.  That is of course important but it seems that the decision to not take on the case is not an indication of how it will rule on trans rights on the whole.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize 

[KathyLauren]

Since the person in question is no longer a minor, the court likely simply decided that the case is moot.  They don't give reasons for not hearing a case, so we won't know for sure.

[VickySGV]

There are already at least two cases they have decided in the recent past involving religious arguments where a child was significantly abused, one of which was the appeal from a murder sentence here in CA in regard to a child who was beaten to death during an attempt to "cure the child of demonic possession". Religious belief was not a defense to child abuse.  The child being Trans in this case was the "demon" which was not relevant to other facts that the court would have seen in the pleadings.  In this one Trans rights were really just a tiny footnote to the broader subject of abuse and medical neglect where religious belief is not a defense or shield from state intervention.  The Trans thing was really the tiniest piece of the whole case, but what the attorney's for the parents thought would make the ordinary child abuse case special and a current exception to old rulings.  The attorney's for the state would have covered that in their pleadings and the court transcript from the State SC would have given the prior SCOTUS rulings "up front and ugly" in their opinion.  The fact the case was moot due to the age issue was just another very small press appeal thing in one sense. 

[Ashley0616]

I think I would consider it a victory. The child wasn't properly taken care of and was removed from a horrible situation. The instance would've been different if they sought a therapist from the beginning. If it was a problem with religion than it should've been brought to a priest but instead they took matters in their own hands resulting in their demise. 

[KatieSC]

Demonic possession? One has to wonder if there is such a thing as angelic possession. Some friends of mine adopted a young woman who was abandoned by her parents while she was still in high school when she announced she was gay. They packed her suitcase, and then dropped her off at a state park. She was taken in by my friends, adopted, and then figured out she was a transgender male. It is pretty awful for a couple of angelically possessed adults to throw out their child. Thank goodness for my two friends who stepped up.

[VickySGV]

7 hours ago, KatieSC said:

is such a thing as angelic possession.

 

That is what your friends experienced when they brought their son to be into their lives and love.

[KatieSC]

6 hours ago, VickySGV said:

 

That is what your friends experienced when they brought their son to be into their lives and love.

You are so right about that Vicky. In knowing them, I am blessed!