Somebody needs to help this child
A lesbian couple in California is subjecting the son of one of them to an exceptionally viscious and unnatural form of child abuse: they're feeding him hormone-suppressant drugs to delay puberty because he (and they) want him to be a girl.
Growing up in a home without a male role model is known to have serious effects on the development of both male and female children, and there's no way to know how much of this boy's desire to be a girl flows from his environment. What is clear, however, is that this treatment at age 11 runs a significant risk of causing him to develop cancer.
"Transgender" persons believe themselves to be psychologically of one gender although they are physically of another. Whatever questions may be raised legally- and especially ethically- by the rejection of the gender to which one is genetically assigned, the government needs to protect children from a threat to their health and even their lives through the confusion of rebellion against nature with societal "openness."
If the boy wants to have gender-reassignment surgery when he's an adult, that will be his decision. But his health ought not to be endangered by an attempt to act prematurely on a decision which will have life-long consequences for someone who is still, after all, a child.
Growing up in a home without a male role model is known to have serious effects on the development of both male and female children, and there's no way to know how much of this boy's desire to be a girl flows from his environment. What is clear, however, is that this treatment at age 11 runs a significant risk of causing him to develop cancer.
"Transgender" persons believe themselves to be psychologically of one gender although they are physically of another. Whatever questions may be raised legally- and especially ethically- by the rejection of the gender to which one is genetically assigned, the government needs to protect children from a threat to their health and even their lives through the confusion of rebellion against nature with societal "openness."
If the boy wants to have gender-reassignment surgery when he's an adult, that will be his decision. But his health ought not to be endangered by an attempt to act prematurely on a decision which will have life-long consequences for someone who is still, after all, a child.
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