Families, communities, and nations are stronger when young people are prevented from making life-alternating decisions. Some progressives and government officials claim that children should have the right to change their genders or get abortions with or without their parents’ knowledge and permission. Nicole Russell at The Daily Signal reported that someone finally used common sense.
A High Court in the U.K. issued a landmark
judgment this week that will protect children 16 years of age and younger from
receiving potentially harmful hormone replacement therapy.
The High Court ruled that treatments often
used to aid gender “transitions” – like puberty blockers and other sex-change
hormones – are too experimental and are no longer able to be administered to
anyone 16 years old or younger without permission from the court.
This is an incredible ruling for those who
have been spreading the word for years about the dangers of transitioning.
The ruling against Tavistock and Portman
NHS Trust, which operates the U.K.’s sole “gender-identity development service,”
is a good sign that the U.K. is finally waking up to the harm puberty blockers
do to young people….
The decision said that the puberty
blockers and other sex-change hormones are too experimental” for children and
teenagers. According to Russell’s article, the decision of the U.K. High Court
was praised by Ryan Anderson at The Heritage Foundation:
Children who suffer from gender dysphoria
deserve real therapy aimed at helping them feel comfortable with their own
bodies. Adults should never encourage a child to reject their body, nor
interfere with their natural pubertal development. Blocking puberty and
administering cross-sex hormones to a minor is not only an experimental set of
medical procedures but is a profound violation of medical ethics. American
courts and legislators should follow the U.K.’s lead and prohibit these unethical
experimental procedures from being performed on minors.
It particularly troubling that children
and teens feel the need to change their sex. It is even more troubling that
governments are allowing them to make this important decision without parental
input. In most medical decisions, the least invasive treatment is usually
recommended to be tried first. The least invasive treatment for gender
dysphoria is therapy that would help a young person to feel comfortable in
their own body. Families, communities,
and nations are stronger when progressive ideas or programs are not allowed for
children and teenagers.
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