[Opinion] Parents Aren't Required to "Unquestioningly Accept and Support Their Minor Children's Claims of Transsexual Identity or Preferred Pronouns"

Parents Aren't Required to "Unquestioningly Accept and Support Their Minor Children's Claims of Transsexual Identity or Preferred Pronouns"

From the long (>10K-word) opinion in In re S.B., decided Friday by Ohio Court of Appeals Judge Matthew R. Byrne, joined by Judges Robert A. Hendrickson and Robin N. Piper: Though not stated explicitly, there is some suggestion in the state's brief and in the juvenile court's permanent custody decision that Mother and Father were unfit as parents because they both were initially reluctant to embrace Sara's announcement that she was transgender an…