A legal battleground is forming across the United States as state legislatures move to codify gender identity affirmation into child custody law, placing parents who use a child's birth name or biological pronouns at risk of losing custody.
The tension sits at a crossroads of parental rights, religious liberty, and child welfare law. Courts and legislatures from Indiana to California and Colorado are either deciding, or have recently decided, whether a parent's rejection of a child's transgender identity can justify state intervention, including the removal of that child from the home.
