In a highly unusual and contentious move, the Department of Justice under the Trump administration has intervened in a custody dispute over a 10-year-old Utah girl who identifies as a boy. The child's parents are embroiled in a bitter fight over whether to allow her to undergo hormone treatment and other medical interventions to affirm her gender identity. In a dramatic and potentially precedent-setting move, the DOJ has dispatched a plane to Cuba to retrieve the child, who had been living with her mother in the communist island nation. The development raises questions about the role of the federal government in family law and the rights of transgender children in the United States.
President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.
