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From Daily Wire: Military veterans who reportedly lost custody of their autistic son after they refused to transition his gender are speaking out after suing a major hospital in Washington, D.C.
The Maryland couple spoke to the Daily Mail on the condition of anonymity and said their son had never shown any transgender tendencies until after a breakup with his girlfriend in 2021. The boy was 16 at the time and ended up in the hospital after harming himself following the breakup.
In May 2021, before the breakup, the teen had texted friends to say he was LGBT, but still used masculine pronouns and never indicated that he identified as transgender, the Mail reported. Around this same time, he was being tested for autism and being counseled by a service for disabled children.
But while at Children’s National Hospital in November 2021, the family was informed that the boy wanted to be a girl, and the family needed to start referring to him with she/her pronouns, according to their lawsuit reviewed by the Mail. The boy’s parents rejected this suggestion, reportedly telling hospital staff that their son was “impressionable” because he was autistic.