In their divorce proceedings, the mother has charged the father with child abuse for not affirming James as transgender, has sought restraining orders against him, and is seeking to terminate his parental rights. She is also seeking to require him to pay for the child’s visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight.
(Sidenote: In a jurisdiction that offers no-fault or “unilateral” divorce (see this chapter on Texas family law), there is nothing mutual about a divorce lawsuit. One parent sues the other. So “their divorce proceedings” is misleading.)
In addition to the lawyers, the psychology industry is getting revenue:
When his mother, a pediatrician, took James for counseling, she chose a gender transition therapist who diagnosed him with gender dysphoria, a mental conflict between physical sex and perceived gender. James’ precious young life hinges purely on the diagnosis of gender dysphoria by a therapist who wraps herself in rainbow colors,
In the world’s most litigious and expensive venue for custody litigation (compare to Germany, for example), transgenderism adds a new twist. In addition to arguing over where children spend their time and how much cash children will yield for a plaintiff parent, now everyone in the industry can get paid to argue about whether an 8-year-old gets gender reassignment hormones and surgery.
Our courts have no way to cope with this nonsense, except to farm out the decision to some stupid psychologist, as if psychologists were some source of wisdom about transgender kids. The psychologists are the ones screwing up the kids.
Shouldn’t the mother be arrested for child abuse? if she is insane that’s ok, but she is potentially harming her son. Can someone prove me wrong if I say no healthy 6 years old has any interest in their gender identification? Can someone prove me wrong if I say any ‘transgender-affirming therapist’ working on a 6 years old is a dangerous quack?
Sounds like a bs allegation that the mother is raising to spite the father. Judges are typically not morons — they graduated from college and law school and had the common sense to figure out how to climb the greasy pole of politics — and if we the wise readers of this blog can spot the foolishness then the judge likely will also. Given that the mother is an MD & presumably affluent she also may end up paying for all this foolishness.
If there’s one that has to be worse that than having gender dysphoria it would be living with the knowledge that your gender dysphoria provably did break up your parents’ marriage. If mom was thinking clearly (and about the child) she could have found some other pretense for the divorce.
If there’s one that has to be worse than having gender dysphoria it would be living with the knowledge that your gender dysphoria provably did break up your parents’ marriage. If mom was thinking clearly (and about the child) she could have found some other pretense for the divorce.
The mother, being a pediatrician with MD, doesn’t mean she is stable or cares about the well being of her son. There are several stories in which someone with high IQ or with MD who do stupid things [1].
I hope the judge sees through this and orders mental evaluation on the mother on his own, before he hears any more of this case. If not, then someone needs to order a mental evaluation on the judge!
[1] https://www.medicalbag.com/despicable-doctors/surgeon-sneaks-out-of-surgeryto-run-an-errand/article/472448/
“As of 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) list of psychological disorders will no longer include trans people.”
Health organizations should stick to science-based decisions and not get into politics. How could transgenderism not be a mental disorder when a person’s sense of their gender differs from their biological sex?
Along with this topic, homosexuality is a condition that you are born with, and a birth defect that cannot be cured or reversed. There should never be discrimination against people for their immutable characteristics.
@Aaron,
I cannot tell if you are being serious or making a sarcastic point.
From the article “She is also seeking to require him to pay for the child’s visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight.”
We are talking about a boy who is 6 years old, not 16. Furthermore, we are talking about a life altering decision to be made and possibly forced onto this child by the mother and the mother only. How is this no different from one parent being charged as being abusive and thus the parent would be allowed supervised visits only or no contact at all with the child? Heck, in a divorce court, you could lose custody of your child if you are caught in the act of providing beer or smoke to your teenager who is under 21.
As always, just compare trans cases to elective surgery to help illuminate:
“Mom divorces husband for refusing their 14-year-old daughter breast implants, says daughter ‘feels socially isolated’ by her body’s late development; asks court to order husband to pay for daughter’s surgery”.
Or perhaps:
“Father divorces wife for refusing to buy 16-year-old son a car, says son ‘feels socially isolated’ as the only student in his school year without one; asks court to order wife to pay for son’s car”.
Can we stop talking about gender and get back to old fashioned racism? New York’s mayor plans to enforce diversity at elite schools, so Asian parents sue. Let the oppression Olympics begin!
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/14/asian-american-school-diversity/
It is with a sense of profound dread that I realize that we can look forward to a future where the medical sterilization of pre-pubescent children is not just normal, but virtuous.