A New York man says his ex-wife forced their young son to undergo a gender transition from boy to girl during their divorce. Despite his ex-wife’s protests that his son never wanted to be a girl from the beginning.
Dennis Hannon, a 32-year-old former bank vice president and software engineer from Buffalo, filed a lawsuit against the Post on Sunday in a lengthy seven-year legal battle that would result in him losing control over his son’s health care. He said he was done losing it. Care.
The dispute began when his ex-wife, Amy Hannon, began dressing their 3-year-old son in girl’s clothes and encouraging him to change his gender.
However, she hid it from him and whenever he went to pick up his son during the visitation period, he remained young.
“When he was in his mother’s care, we didn’t know he was actually a girl named Ruby.” Hannon told the Daily Mail.
His heart then broke when he saw a notice from the school that called his son “Ruby Rose Hannon.”
“This was a unilateral sex change of my child,” he said. “I had no say.”
She said her ex-husband took her son to a gender therapist who recommended that he start taking puberty blockers starting at age 9. She ultimately took her son to court in 2020 after she tried to intervene in what she believed was unnecessary treatment.
“My son has never been diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” he told the Post.
When contacted by the Post on Sunday, Amy Hannon said she did not want to go into details of the incident. But she said she wasn’t as pretty as her ex-boyfriend made her out to be.
“There are two sides to every story,” she said. “And after reading that, [Daily Mail] The story…the amount of lies in that story is pretty scary. The important thing here is the child. ”
Dennis Hannon said the long legal battle cost him about $150,000 in legal fees. And while he still has visitation rights, he has no say in medical decisions.
“I lost my only medical authority. I lost my parental rights. I lost $150,000 in legal fees,” he said. “But I saved my son.”
A year after the legal battle ended, he says his son, now 9, is happily living as a young boy.
“Suddenly he no longer has any desire to be a girl,” Hannon said, adding that she is trying to get custody but is on the verge of bankruptcy. “He never had his desire to be a girl. It was a fantasy that his mother imposed on him.”
“No one considered the psychological impact of the social transition of a 5-year-old,” he said. They received treatment before the diagnosis was made.
“I will always love my son no matter who he wants to be,” Hannon said of her gender identity. “But this was not his choice. It was forced on him.”
