Professor: Most Parents Should ‘Lose Veto Power’ Over Their Minor Children’s Gender Transition By Alex Parker for Red State
If you have a child, to what degree is he or she yours?
It’s an increasingly relevant question, both culturally and legally.
And, it seems, it’s one whose answer is on the move.
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Apropos of that, a professor at Arizona State University’s got thoughts.
In response to a paper by Melbourne Law School researcher Lauren Notini, Professor Maura Priest has penned an article for the Journal of Medical Ethics.
At issue: the ethics of transgenderism and its employment of drugs.
In Lauren’s piece, she argued that the use of puberty-suppressing pharmaceuticals can “ethically be offered to non-binary adults in principle.”
Because:
[Ongoing puberty suppression] can promote patient well-being and is therefore consistent with the proper goals of medicine.
As noted by Campus Reform, Maura’s good with that.
However, in her view, LGBT “testimony” trumps any potential medical opinions, regardless of which way they lean.
If the medical community is to take LGBT testimony seriously (as they should), then it is no longer the job of physicians to do their own weighing of the costs and benefits of transition-related care.
“Assuming the patient is informed and competent,” Maura writes, “then only the patient can make this assessment.”
[O]nly the patient has access to the true weight of transition-related benefits.
And if only “patients” can make that decision, what role should parents play if their children disagree with their chromosomes?
Per Maura, a very limited one.
Indeed, also trumped: mom and dad.
Maura’s perspective reflects a profound evolution in the concept of parental rights — and children’s.
And a growing number of kids are claiming an alternate identity.
Hence, surely a great deal of turmoil awaits.
Sign of the times: In March, a Canadian man was arrested for misgendering his 14-year-old child by calling her by her sex.
