The U.S. Supreme Court is an Indiana couple’s last hope for justice after the state’s Child Protective Services removed their son from their home because they refused to indulge his desire to identify as a girl.

The son of Mary and Jeremy Cox, who is now 18, was removed from their home in 2021 by CPS because of the Coxes’ belief that it was not healthy for their son to be “affirmed” as a girl, and they had been objecting to his transition for two years. CPS claimed that this was abusive, as was their adherence to Catholic religious doctrine, which says human beings are created male and female and that this is immutable.