If the child is from California, there are too many holes in this piece to even hold it together. A major issue is that even three years ago, we had at least two of the best Juvenile Gender Clinics in the nation, where our other treating Gender Therapists referred their patients in need of medical treatment. In those centers, the child is re-screened for NEED of the medical intervention, and then, the child can opt out at any time regardless of what their parent or guardian wishes. The writer of this article no doubt wangles, wheedles and bullies her children into doing what she wishes, but if her wish was to force her child to take any type of hormonal medication, it would be found, and possibly the child taken from her. If there is any question in the prescribing doctors' mind about the child doing "parent pleasing" and taking these meds against their wills, -----!! I know a number of young people and their families in these medical programs, and have met the Pediatric Endocrinologists that administer the programs and the meds. The writer of this piece is a latent child abuser herself.
