Indiana officials say parents lost custody of trans child due to eating disorder, but lawyers claim otherwise
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Indiana officials claim a transgender child was removed from his parents' custody due to an eating disorder, but their lawyers say state officials covered up "ideological actions of lower-level bureaucrats."
Kendall Tietz is a Production Assistant with Fox News Digital.
In 2019, Mary and Jeremy's son told them that he identified as a girl, but in line with their Catholic religious beliefs that God created human beings with an immutable sex, male or female, they did not believe in referring to him using pronouns and a name inconsistent with his biology.
The Coxes also believed their son was struggling with underlying mental health conditions, including an eating disorder, so they sought therapeutic care for both. But, in 2021, Indiana officials began investigating the Coxes after a report found they were not referring to their child by his preferred gender identity, so they removed him from their custody and placed him in a "gender-affirming" home.













