The Federalist reports that the father and his ex-wife, identified under the pseudonyms "Robert Cameron" and "Nancy Drake," have been divorced since 2013, but disagreement over their son's mental confusion boiled over last year with the use of a medical arbitrator to decide how to handle their son's gender confusion. The father advocated delaying any medical interventions until he was a legal adult, while the mother – who Cameron alleges has been trying to nudge their children toward homosexuality and transgenderism since age five – advocated taking him to a therapist who would support "transition."

The arbitrator sided with Drake and sought a gag order against Cameron attempting to dissuade his son, citing his warnings that "these doctors will cut off your [genitals] with a … saw," as a "version of conversion therapy." The arbitrator granted Nancy "sole decision making for all decisions concerning [the son's] treatment for his gender dysphoria," barred Cameron from "any appointments" for his son's gender issues, and declared that he "shall not try to persuade [the son] that he is too young to make a decision or show him movies or videos about transgender issues that support [Cameron']s position. In essence, [Cameron] needs to be emotionally supportive of [the son's] desire to transition."

"The only option offered by the state or by the courts is affirmation," Cameron told the Federalist. "That's what the mediator, arbitrator basically forced me into: Either your affirm, or the ex-wife gets full power of medical decision." 

To underscore just how baseless is the push to "transition" his son, Cameron explained that he asked him "What makes you think you are a girl? And do you even know what a girl is?" 

"Because I point blank asked my son that question — 'What do you think would make you a woman?' — and he couldn't answer that. He didn't know what it was. He just felt effeminate," Cameron added. "That approach is illegal in Colorado. You can lose your license as a therapist if you practice anything other than affirmation."

"I consider this to be a form of grooming, where you're presenting to an emotional and susceptible child one side of the story, that if you think you are effeminate, you're obviously a girl," he added. "He is being manipulated. He's being manipulated by the activists that have an agenda and the money behind that agenda of pushing children into opposite gender in the process of destroying the children and the family."

Drake recently sought (but relented on) an additional gag order to prevent Cameron from speaking to friends or the press about the case, but his attorneys are currently working on challenging the gag order keeping him from his son, which remains in effect.