Are young children capable of making life-altering decisions for themselves? At what age should kids be allowed to undergo “gender affirming” transition surgery without their parents’ consent? Ami Horowitz is at UCLA asking people if they will sign a petition to support a fictitious 5-year-old girl who wants to become a boy, against her parents’ judgment. Their answers may shock you. Don’t miss it!
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Yeah, there’s nothing at all bizarre about a society, or portion thereof, that thinks a five year old should be able to decide to take life altering hormones or consent to life altering surgery. Nothing at all. Now do Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). Should five year olds be able to have their fully functioning spinal cord severed, too?
Who’s paying for these surgery’s? The parents insurance? Government?
The parents aren’t allowed to know about these surgeries… and are forced to cover the deductible’s?
America is messed up terribly!
It is a sad sad world when young people agree with genocide, because that’s what science shows happens to the vast majority of sex change patients, they kill themselves.
Paedophiles are running the world atm.
It took a straight white MAN to speak up for the child.
Next year they will demand that it be illegal for parents to say no. Child abuse will be legally mandated.
Californians are too stupid to self rule.
Must be something to do with Microwave saturation destroying rational brain functions ” females” the same people that consider abortion and child euthanasia their birth right. Evidently female have lost all logical Protective Parenting moral obligation! (It was eve that gave us the original sin). Somewhere during man’s climb out of the sea women have lost their way, where did we go wrong? Scary scenario the Female Lemmings ” that would condone child butchering and manipulation would ” Have an attitude “when it applies have the Failed mask Hysteria use /Is it a vanity issue with women face covering / the removal of facial identity.? Something to hide behind >?
Meaningless navel gazing for self gratification. “Walden” on steroids. These people will never find purpose or meaning beyond what is the most elementary.