Prayer Alert: Trial over Dad Opposing His 7-Year-Old's Gender 'Transition', Being Pushed by His Ex-Wife, Began This Week; Here's an Update

Madeleine Jacob : Oct 17, 2019
LifeSiteNews.com

"[Jeffery Younger] has spent all of his retirement, all of his savings, and sold all of his possessions to fund a defense of his son. Father's net worth is now negative. He possesses no real or significant personal assets. He continues to resist Ms. Georgulas's predations on the child and the indifference of the Court. Mr. Younger is currently raising money to pay expert witnesses to rebut the transgender ideologues working for Ms. Georgulas." -from the 333-page document in defense of James Younger, titled: "Save James"

(Texas) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Attorneys for the mother trying to force her ex-husband to go along with the gender "transition" she seeks for their seven-year-old son said in court yesterday the case is about parenting, not "gender transitioning." (Image: Jeff Younger and his twin boys: James and Jude /via LifeSiteNews)

Anne Georgulas, a pediatrician, has been telling her son James he's a girl since he was three. She and her ex-husband, Jeffery Younger, are in court this week as Georgulas seeks complete control over decision-making ability for James and his twin, Jude.

Georgulas' attorneys, Jessica Janicek and Laura Hayes, argued that Younger is "insensitive, narcissistic, controlling, [and] unstable," and that he refuses to follow the court's orders. Meanwhile, Georgulas is "sensitive" and "empathetic," and provides her son—whom she enrolled in kindergarten as a girl named "Luna"—a stable, loving environment while following court orders, they claimed.

Additionally, they claimed Younger was committing fraud by using the money raised through the Save James website for his own personal expenses. Ms. Janicek's opening statements were laden with imagery and emotional pleas to the jury.

Younger's attorney, Logan Odeneal, asked the jury to clearly review the facts of the case and to consider the actions of both parties. He argued that Younger is seeking a second opinion for his son's diagnosis of "gender dysphoria." Georgulas engaged in "doctor shopping" to find a doctor who would say what she wanted to hear, Odeneal said.

He pointed out that Younger is seeking to prevent his seven-year-old son from making a permanent, life-altering decision by undergoing a gender "transition." He focused the attention of the case on the potential harm a medical "transition" would pose to James, a step he said Georgulas will take if granted sole managing conservatorship... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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