Gender benders are consigning more and more disturbed children to the path of sex change on the basis of a shaky philosophy. Adolescents, by definition, are immature people. Once, the pop scientific diagnosis of teenage rashness was all about “raging hormones”. Now, it’s mainly about brains; hardly a week goes by that does not bring new revelations about the teen brain and its unfinished, evolving nature. No-one is really grown up until they are at least 25, we are told. 
It turns out that some people have significant lapses of common sense even then. Among them are the mother of 12-year-old Australian girl who is encouraging her daughter to become a boy; the psychiatrist, family counsellor and endocrinologist who support the move; and the Victorian family court judge who decided last December after a two-day hearing that the girl had the right to begin hormone treatment with a view to a complete sex change. It has taken six months for the judgement to be issued.
Despite the claim of her lawyer that she is capable of giving informed consent, and a claim that the hormone treatment is reversible should she change her mind, the girl is patently too young to make such a life-changing decision According to researchers, someone of her age has barely begun the process that should ultimately see the higher functions of the brain -- those connected with self-awareness, empathy with others and wise decision making -- wrest control from the pleasure seeking functions that burgeon during adolescence. A Dutch team has been conducting a trial involving youths since the late 1990s, according to Spiegel. The prestigious Boston Children's Hospital runs a clinic where children are helped to change their sex.
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I disagree that parents of transgendered children allowing them to take hormones or otherwise express their "true selves" as they feel it, is wrong. Most people know their sexuality at a young age and the ones who question it are usually those not allowed to embrace their true sexuality by others. I knew I liked girls and boys when I was very young. My gay friends knew that they liked the same sex when they were very young as well.
I am proud of parents who support their children's life decisions and self-love.
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