A Texas mother who wanted to medically transition her 7-year-old son and call him Luna lost another court case.
Anne Georgulas, the mother of James Younger, originally won a court case in October 2019 that would allow her to give her son puberty-blocking hormones. At that time, a jury ruled against the boy’s father, Jeffrey Younger, who opposed the procedure.
The jury’s decision would have also forced Younger to affirm his son as a girl and take a class on transgender issues, against his ethical and religious objections.
However, Dallas Judge Mary Brown affirmed a previous court’s decision on Wednesday to grant James’s father and mother joint conservatorship over him, which requires all medical decisions to be agreed on by both parents. Georgulas’s attorney has promised to challenge the judge’s ruling.
After the Texas jury’s decision, the case received national attention as the parents battled over the custody of their twin boys. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced in late October that the Texas officials were looking into the situation. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called the mother’s decision “child abuse.”
“This is horrifying & tragic. For a parent to subject such a young child to life-altering hormone blockers to medically transition their sex is nothing less than child abuse,” Cruz said.
This is horrifying & tragic. For a parent to subject such a young child to life-altering hormone blockers to medically transition their sex is nothing less than child abuse.https://t.co/sl8VcBgfTD via @nypost
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) October 24, 2019
Georgulas enrolled James in a school under the name Luna while medical records showed she was attempting to transition him.
A judge first sided with Jeffrey Younger during a closed hearing on Oct. 24, granting both James’s mother and father joint decision-making rights.
The South Dakota House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, a bill that would criminalize giving hormones to children under 16.
