Post Millennial: The B.C. Court of Appeal has delivered a verdict today regarding the right of a child to receive treatment for gender dysphoria without parental consent.
The case first came to public attention in January 2019 when the father was told that his child, who was 14-years-old at the time, could begin hormone treatment without parental approval under BC’s Infant Act. The father sought a court injunction to prevent the doctors from commencing therapy. Since then, the names of all individuals involved in the case have been put under publication ban, including the names of the doctors who were involved in the diagnosis and treatment of the youth.
Previous court decisions granted the child the ability to proceed with hormone treatment to conform to the male gender with which the child identifies. Additionally, the father was subject to a protection order that prevented him from referring to his child as female or discussing the case publicly.
The father violated that court order by continuing to give media interviews, providing identifying documents, and continuing to call the child his daughter. The court was asked to refuse the father further audience because of this breach but declined to do so “without in any way countenancing [the father’s] alleged conduct in this litigation.”
There were numerous intervenors in the appeal, most of whom supported the child’s position. Because the child had already begun hormone therapy, the Court of Appeal was asked to consider the issue moot. While the judges agreed that it was not appropriate to reverse the earlier decision on medical treatment, since irreversible physical changes had already taken effect, they would rule on the issues to provide guidance for future cases. read more
“Since then, the names of all individuals involved in the case have been put under publication ban……”
If I were doing something that should be against the law, I wouldn’t want my name known either.
Until Stephen Harper in 2008 changed the age of consent in Canada, it was fourteen.
Why not let the child make its own decision. Our whole country is being run by a child.
Poor father, he is a good and rational man in a sick world.
Wait until they allow children the “freedom” to be sexually active with adults and eliminate age of consent.
I miss Harper!
“You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.
Matthew 7:13
Has “South Park” done this episode yet?
Doctors? What doctors?
How old does a “Trans child” have to be before serving in the military, 8?
In reality, there is no such thing as a trans sexual.
It should be noted that British Columbia (BC) is Canada’s California.
I’m not sure what I would do at this point if I were the father. I thinks it’s very likely that the father and child no longer have any kind of good relationship and these BC Judges are likely to do something nasty should he continue to refer to his daughter as a girl although they did rule he is entitled to his opinion and to communicate it. The story didn’t indicate where the wife stands in this mess but maybe the best course would be for the father to just step away and sever his connections with the daughter when he is legally allowed to do so (talking financial support, shelter, education and the like). Tough love.
If the courts declare that a child can receive (medical) treatment without parental consent, then that same child can pay for that same treatment him/her/it self without parental consent.
And live in its own house without consent consent.
And pay the rent/mortgage, taxes, electricity, water, etc without parental consent.
And buy and prepare its own groceries and food without parental consent.
Basically, if the courts can declare the child to be an adult, then OUT THE DOOR YA GO! Bye! I will no longer support you, the courts can support you if they so declare.
I can’t imagine the horror and agony this father is facing now, and the never-ending pain as his mutilated daughter ages. May God give him strength against this nightmare.
Government facilities mentally (and in this case sexually) gaslight and abuse his daughter- and he has to accept it?
His mentally ill, abused and confused kid gets to decide if she can inject her body with harmful chemicals that long term destroy her reproductive organs (among other things).
Terrifying.
Maybe it’ll save us all a lot of trouble and choose assisted suicide
Soviet Union. That’s their goal.
When I finished with that judge, he’d have more to worry about than what I called my daughter.
14 year old kids can’t buy booze and cigarettes, can’t get a drivers license, can’t vote.
Who is pushing for child sexualization?
Pedophiles. Liberals. Satan worshipers. Surprise!
@scr
I would sympathize with the father if he kicked his daughter out, though I understand it would be a very difficult thing to do.
I wouldn’t even do that to one of my cats, because no matter what they do they are basically innocent beings, unlike humans.