America First Legal on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a case challenging a Washington state law separating children from parents who refuse to acknowledge their preferred gender identity.

The Ninth Circuit previously rejected the challenge, asserting that the concerned parents who brought the suit lacked standing given their children had not been taken from them.

"It is certainly important to Petitioners, who are parents of gender-confused children (including one child who previously ran away) and who do not wish to affirm that confusion," America First Legal wrote in a filing. "They challenged Washington laws designed to give runaway minors 'genderaffirming treatment' without parental notice or consent. But despite their being the challenged laws’ target, and despite their alleging specific current harms and a substantial risk of specific future harms to their ability to parent, the Ninth Circuit held that Petitioners lacked Article III standing."

America First Legal contends that the law incentivizes children to run away from their parents. It further argues that the Ninth Circuit ruling asserts that parents must wait until the state takes away their children to sue.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.