Abigail Shrier has an excellent — and chilling — article in City Journal about how transgender ideology has infiltrated family law. It tells the story of Ted Hudacko, whose parental rights were terminated after he tried to put the brakes on his 16-year-old son’s gender transition. Shrier writes:
In the three years I’ve spent writing about families with transgender-identifying minors, the story of Ted Hudacko stood out as a case study of how gender ideology has infiltrated family law. It also frames the unintended consequences of medical professionals’ fudging science, rewriting medical definitions, and tolerating shoddy research to placate activists. At each stage, doctors may have thought: Where was the harm? And so, as a consequence, judges now decide the fate of children and their families based on phony, medically unsubstantiated metaphysics, as if it were factual that all adolescents have an immutable, ineffable “gender identity,” knowable only to the adolescents themselves.
Another such case study is that of James Younger, which I first wrote about in 2019. Sadly, things have only gotten worse since then.