[metmom]

The teen's parents want court authority to stop their child from getting the treatment and therapy that was recommended by his medical team in what it characterizes as a possible life-or-death situation.

It's NOT a life or death situation.

Her survival does not literally depend on her receiving the hormone treatments.

It's not like it's dialysis that IS a life or death treatment.

[Tax-chick]

It’s more like every other teenaged girl (*sigh*), “If I don’t get everything I want, right now, I’ll kill myself, and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT!”

But to be fair, it’s every teenaged boy, too, see above regarding my daughter’s now ex-boyfriend.