Minnesota mother Anmarie Calgaro Emily Gruenhagen via Facebook 
 
 “It was brought to my knowledge that my son (sic) began receiving hormone replacement treatments from Park Nicollet Health Services to transition from male to female, with medical assistance paying for this,” Anmarie Calgaro told reporters in a St. Paul, Minnesota court. “I was not consulted or informed about this in any way.” 
 
 In a video of the press conference posted to Facebook, Calgaro and attorney Erick Kaardal repeatedly refer to the teen in question as male—despite a doctor’s letter included in the complaint that states the teen “has had appropriate, permanent clinical treatment for transition to the new female gender.” 
 
 Calgaro's lawsuit challenges a Minnesota law that allows minors to access medical care and procedures without the consent of their parents. “Medical service providers determine whether a teenage child is emancipated,” Kaardal said at Wednesday's press conference, adding that this allows minors to receive “elective, non-emergency medical procedure(s).” 
 
 Minnesota does not have a legal process for the emancipation of minors. But notably, the emancipation statement included in the complaint—which the teen created along with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid in June 2015—states that “mother has made it known to him that she no longer wishes to have any contact with him,” “knows where he is and has made no attempts to bring him home,” and “has taken no actions to report him as a runaway or taken legal action to keep him in her home.” 
 
 The emancipation notice was filed in Stearns County District Court in October 2015. “The news that county agencies and health service providers, the school and other county and state offices were completely bypassing me came as a total shock,” Calgaro said while beginning to cry. “It’s a head scratcher as to what [Calgaro] expects the court to do to reverse a decision that was never made.” 
 
 The lawsuit asserts that Calgaro’s parental rights are stripped by the law, and also that her constitutional right to due process is violated. “If there had been a court order of emancipation, then Anmarie would have received notice and an opportunity to be heard,” attorney Kaardal said at the Wednesday press conference. But OutFront’s Duran said that independently accessed transition-related care hasn’t been an issue for most Minnesota parents, and “making medical decisions on your own is not the same as emancipation.” 
 
 “I think mom is grasping at straws,” Duran told NBC OUT, “and trying to construe the kid’s decision as a state-imposed violation of her constitutional rights.” 
 
 According to documents included in the lawsuit, Calgaro’s daughter turns 18 next July, meaning that the case will not be relevant to the family for long.
– A Minnesota mom says her parental rights have been violated, and she's suing a school district, county health boards, local health-care groups—and her own transgender daughter—to get them back, NBC News reports. Anmarie Calgaro appeared at a Wednesday press conference, taking issue with a Minnesota law that allowed her 17-year-old to begin transitioning from male to female via hormone replacement treatments without her consent or knowledge. Per her complaint, Calgaro says a nonprofit helped her daughter (whom she still refers to as her "son") receive a "letter of emancipation" unbeknownst to her; her child subsequently began receiving "dangerous hormonal drugs" to transition, per a Facebook post. "Why wasn't I even notified?" she said as she started to cry. Meanwhile, the June 2015 emancipation document reviewed by NBC states Calgaro didn't want to have "any contact" with her child, who had been living apart from Calgaro and self-supported financially for the prior six months. A press release from a law firm repping Calgaro says the teen "has been handled by the defendants as an emancipated minor despite no court action to that effect." But NBC notes Minnesota has no legal emancipation process; rather, the state simply allows for kids living apart from parents and taking care of their own finances to make their own medical decisions. Per the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Calgaro says she's not against the gender change, but she wants "him to slow down." Transgender advocates have framed Calgaro's use of "son" and male pronouns as "not only insensitive but also really harmful." (The Supreme Court will hear a teen transgender case.)