CV NEWS FEED// A military family is suing a Washington, DC hospital for removing their autistic son from their custody after they resisted the hospital’s attempts to “transition” the teenage boy.
The family, who asked to remain anonymous in their statements to Daily Mail UK, said their son never showed an interest in wanting to be a girl when he was younger. When he was 16, in 2021, he was hospitalized at the Children’s National Hospital after a suicide attempt following a bitter break-up with his girlfriend.
During his stay at the hospital, the staff informed his parents that he wanted to be a female, and the parents stated that he was forced to write letters to his friends, rejecting his male identity.
The boys’ parents would not use female pronouns for their son, saying that the hospital had used “mental reprogramming” in a “full-on campaign” to transition their son, who they stated is impressionable and susceptible to social manipulation because of his autism.
The hospital responded by calling Child Protective Services and using their emergency policies to keep the boy hospitalized for 41 days. He was placed in foster care with a single mother with a previous assault charge. She died suddenly, and the boy is now most likely living with the hospital’s “non-gendered” chaplain, Lavender Kelley, who openly supports transitioning minors without parental consent on her Facebook page.
The son is now 19 and is not legally obliged to return to his parents. It is unclear if he has started feminizing hormones or sex-reassignment surgery. Since he has been removed from parental custody, his parents reported that he has been seen in “provocative and sexually suggestive” Instagram photos.
The veteran parents, who have two other children, had to sell their home and business to cover legal costs.
The father stated, “This has been devastating. It drained so much money, there is no money left.” He added, “It changed our entire way of life, with the loss of a child and then with the loss of our income.”
The parents filed the lawsuit in the Maryland District Court, charging the hospital with “eight counts including negligence, inflicting intentional emotional distress and discriminating against someone based on their religion,” the Daily Mail explains.
The parents’ lawsuit states, “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.”
