A San Francisco dad is fighting a nightmarish custody battle for his toddler son, who he says is being raised “non-binary” by his mother, who claims to be genderless.
Harrison Tinsley, 31, is seeking full custody of his son Sawyer, 3, who currently spends half of his time with Tinsley’s ex-girlfriend, the boy’s mother. Sawyer’s mother, 30, uses they/them pronouns for the boy and puts him in dresses and makeup, photos provided by Tinsley appear to show. Sawyer also told his dad that his mother put him in princess shoes on a trip to Disneyland, a video of the conversation shows. Sawyer’s mother may have thought about raising her son “non-binary” before he was even born. In what appears to be a Facebook post during her pregnancy, she refers to Sawyer as “my sweet baby boy or girl or neither if that’s what you feel.”
Sawyer wearing a dress (Photo courtesy of Harrison Tinsley)
Sawyer himself rebels against his mom and insists he is a boy, his dad says.
The mother herself now identifies as “non-binary,” although she did not when she was dating Tinsley, court documents show. LGBT issues have been a major theme in her life — she was adopted and raised by two older gay men in the Bay Area, where she still…
