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[–] prairie 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I don't see any reason that a doctor, who might as well decide that transgenderism is necessary, should have more of a right than either the parent or the child.

That's a good example. It could be argued that a critical time window is lost if it's deferred to adulthood. That's the way these work, a crack for a wedge to be driven into to justify whatever.

I'm noticing that there's a more general issue of trying to somehow make rules that prevent anything bad from happening (which is where I was coming from, as I can see now). This is the road to ruin because it eats away in a million ways one's freedom, and opens the door to abuse. You're arguing something principled, so that for responsible people it gives them the power to make their own destiny (and that of their offspring). There's no substitute for loving parents, and a whole prescription of detailed child rearing gets in the way of this, and normalizes shitty people.