Can They Do That?

Can a court remove a parent because they are transgender? We are about to find out.

Transgender woman says gender identity being used to keep her from seeing her kids
WREG
By April Thompson
November 12, 2015

Maddie divorced the boy's mother years earlier, but always retained some form of visitation.
Now she says there is a push to remove the kids from her life all together.

"I was only allowed to talk to them on the phone Monday, Wednesday and Friday as a new rule, before they took away all my visitation," said Maddie.

The case is in court right now.

Maddie can't see the kids while Judge Gina Higgins decides visitation.
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WREG found court records where Maddie was awarded primary custody of the children just two years ago.

"Why do they need access to my medical records? Because it is a witch hunt That`s all this is. This is not about protecting my boys from anything," said Maddie. "It`s been devastating. I am worried how this will affect the boys relationship with me. I am worried it will affect them, worrying I rejected them."

Yup, it is a witch hunt and it all will boil down to the judge, will she judge on the merits of the case or because of bias.

Down in Florida a judge stripped the parenting rights from a trans man but that case was different from this case in that it didn’t involve a biological parent and it centered around a “legal marriage” or if it was a same-sex marriage. So this case can have far reaching outcome.

Here in Connecticut, over ten years ago the question of trans parents was settled in our favor, our trans status cannot be used against us.