California Father Loses Suit Over Child’s Gender-Affirming Care

A California father can’t proceed on constitutional claims against medical providers who, he said, performed gender-affirming surgery on his transgender child over his objections, a federal court said.

Edward Hudacko didn’t establish that he had a clearly established constitutional right to veto a medical procedure that University of California at San Franciso medical professionals would have known they were violating, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday in dismissing the suit. Parents generally have a right to direct their children’s medical treatment, but a state order granting sole custody to the mother stripped Hudacko his ...