Posted on 07/23/2005 9:06:10 AM PDT by knak
AT least six NSW teenagers are planning legal action to change their sex following a Family Court decision to allow a 13-year-old boy to become a girl.
In an application supported by his parents, the Sydney boy recently won the court's permission to take puberty-blocking chemicals to stop developing an adult male's body.
His lawyer, Rachael Wallbank, says the next step is to take oestrogen at 16 to feminise the body with the option of having sex-change surgery after turning 18.
The case follows the Family Court's precedent-setting decision last year to allow a 13-year-old girl, "Alex", to become a boy.
The issue will be covered by the ABC's Four Corners program tomorrow night.
Ms Wallbank, herself a transsexual, said six teenagers in NSW were "lining up" to undergo similar treatment. She said they felt trapped in the wrong gender and were sure of what they wanted.
"There is no confusion - it's certainty in the face of every other obstacle, and it's unchanging," said Ms Wallbank, who will also appear in the Four Corners program.
But the decisions have created controversy with some doctors and ethicists claiming the teenagers are too young to make such decisions and the court should not be approving them.
Bio-ethicist Dr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini said allowing teenagers to change sex was horrendous and defied psychiatric opinion that indicated they often regretted the decision later.
"It's bad enough for young people in their 20s but to see that happening to children is quite horrific," Dr Tonti-Filippini told The Sunday Telegraph last week.
He said the Family Court was ill-equipped to determine such matters.
But Family Court Chief Justice Diana Bryant told The Sunday Telegraph the court had no predisposition towards granting sex changes to teenagers.
"Each case is judged on its merits," she said.
Justice Bryant acknowledged that the issue was controversial but said the court had a welfare jurisdiction that gave it the right to make such decisions.
The children are among as many as 40,000 Australians who suffer what medical experts have labelled "intersex" conditions.
Twenty-six-year-old Melbourne woman Christie North, who was born with male chromosomes and internal testes, said she did not feel out of place.
"It just affects me in that I cannot have kids and I don't get a period," she said.
Is it just me or are the leftists becoming increasingly brain dead lately?
Regards, Ivan
So long as the lies about sex reassignment surgery are propped up over the truth, this abomination will continue to gain steam.
Well, at least America has not gone over the clift yet.
Sounds like a severe case of "Look at me, I'm an idiot".
lately?????
You are either brain dead or not brain dead. Leftists always fit into the brain dead category.
Abonination loves company.
Sick people!
You see the guy the other day who decided he didn't like having legs so he took one off with a circular saw? Only difference from this case is in which body parts they want removed/mutilated.
I guess he liked the name Stumpy.
Regards, Ivan
And that guy with the saw cutting off his leg was a transsexual, too.
Think there's a correlation there somewhere...?
There was a recent article on FR about a group of psychiatrists who say if they cannot 'cure' these people feelings of wanting to cut off a limb, that doctors should actively help and remove perfectly working limbs, if the patient wants to.
Wow is right. Won't somebody please invent a starship so I can get the hell off this planet?
Wow is right. Won't somebody please invent a starship so I can get the hell off this planet?
My coworker's wife used to counsel sex-change patients. He said they had a high rate of depression and suicide (even post-change) and every single one of them had serious mental issues.
I remember that story. It seems they would only amputate the perfectly good limbs of people who were deemed psychologically stable.
LOL
Response: Citizens should give them a sex change operation-on some dark and moonless night!
That would be a trick, to find a person who wants to chop off a working limb who is also 'psycologically stable'.
I searched but couldn't seem to find a link to that FR thread.
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