Child sex change ethical?

[SandraJane]

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Child sex change ethical?


Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 2/24/2012 3:40:00 AM


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1542184


Christian pediatrician is raising ethical concerns with parents allowing children who believe they were born the wrong gender to undergo hormone treatments, and later surgery to physically change their gender.

Dr. Norman Spack is director of one of the nation's first gender-identity medical clinics, located at Children's Hospital Boston, and he believes labeling children with "gender-identity disorder" a misnomer, based on research that suggests about one in 10,000 children may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex. But other physicians say it is harmful to put young children through irreversible treatment too early. (See earlier story)

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He points out that parents can deal with teaching a girl she is a girl and a boy he is a boy in every sense, 24/7/365, regardless of how much the child insists otherwise. "You know, it's not the child's determination of what they want to do; it's what the parent then does," he contends.

There is no child sex change. This is utterly false. Letting the child wear clothes they prefer, be called by the terms they prefer and choosing their own toys is not sex change. It's expression.

All the available information suggests that the pubitry delaying medicines have no long term effect.

If it is giving medicines to children itself that bothers these people there are infinitely more children being given medicines that are infinitely more dangerous in the long term.