Cincinnati (AP) - A judge's ruling will allow a transgender boy in Ohio to continue hormonal therapy at a hospital over the wishes of his parents who deny that he is transgender.
The ruling issued Friday by a judge in Juvenile Court in Cincinnati awards legal custody of the 17-year-old to his grandparents, who support his pursuit of hormonal therapy.
The decision also says the boy must first undergo an evaluation by a psychologist before he can start hormone therapy.
The boy's parents deny that he is transgender and want Christian-based therapy to get to the underlying causes of why he thinks he is.
A prosecutor who represented a social services agency says the grandparents accept him for who he is.
The parents say the teen is too unstable to decide.
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