How Young is too Young?

[Shana A]

Monday, 18 April 2011
How Young is too Young?
Zoe Brain

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-young-is-too-young.html

One of the great dilemmas in treating children whose neurology is cross-sexed to some degree is that the pubertal clock is ticking. Children become pubescent before their brains have developed adequately for them to be judged competent to make decisions as an adult.

This leads to laws about "statutory rape" of adolescents, where although their reproductive systems may be physically developed, their intellect and ability to make informed decisions hasn't caught up. This is partly due to inexperience - innocence - but also due to incomplete neurological development.

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Those questioning giving treatment to these children need to be asking themselves, what their problem is exactly?

Gay and Lesbian advocacy groups think that we should let the brain develop naturally as puberty progresses, that we may be creating transsexuals out of gays

to this:

It's complicated by the fact that many of those advocating a moratorium on treatment want all transsexuals to die on ideological grounds, and have said as much. One therefore might suspect their motives here,but what matters is not the motives, it's whether they're right or not.

The opposition from the gay/lesbian lobby seems to be one of membership. This is utterly disgusting.