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Agree with most of this - but here's the thing about gender "reassignment" surgery: Parents can't get an honest second opinion in most blues states. In California and Minnesota, the state licensing boards require that all physicians and therapists practice "gender affirming" care - which means once a kid has said, even under prodding from a teacher or school counselor, that they think they're the other gender, nobody is allowed to ask them if they're sure.

Childhood is about exploring, about trying out different ideas, without wedding yourself to any one thing. You can pretend you're a doctor or an astronaut, and nobody then says, "Well, that's it: Johnny's going to be an astronaut" and forces you into astronaut training at age 12.

But let Johnny agree with his SJW teacher that "Maybe I would like to be a girl," and in many states that's a one way ticket to irreversible surgery.

Look at all the young adults in their mid to late 20s coming out and "de-transitioning" - except their breasts and penises aren't growing back.

And the common refrain was, "Where were the adults who were supposed to protect me?"

Indeed.

When parents are asked by a doctor "Do you want a live 'son' or a dead daughter," of course they'll authorize the surgery. And if they don't, in California the state will take your kid away from you, charge you with child abuse, and authorize the surgery anyway.

It is by any definition a crime against humanity, and I think it's going to take a few such cases at The Hague to put an end to this nightmare.

So if Idaho or Tennessee or other states feel the need to pass a law that states the obvious - that no minor can possibly give meaningful consent to such a procedure - then I'm all in favor of it.

After all, we don't allow parents to authorize their kids to smoke cigarettes under the age of 18.

Doing so is child abuse.

So is "gender reassignment" surgery.

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