A transgender teen is suing her Christian parents for allegedly forcing her to participate in "Christian-based" therapy instead of allowing her to transition from a female into a male.



Today, a Hamilton County judge will decide whether a 16-year-old girl whose parents, according to court documents, want faith-based therapy for her can receive hormone treatment at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati.com reports.



Court documents posit that the girl's parents "refuse to acknowledge her transgender identity, won't let her receive treatment at Children's Hospital, and haven't let her change her change her appearance to look like a man."



The case stems from November 2016, when the teen emailed a crisis hotline claiming that one of her parents had told her to kill herself and made her listen to Bible passages for more than six hours.



According to the complaint, the teen was receiving therapy from Children's Hospital until the parents decided they wanted their child to receive counseling from a Christian therapist. The therapy later resumed due to the teen's anxiety and depression, but her parents were "still opposed to the transition issue," the documents say.

