Flick 🇬🇧https://www.city-journal.org/article/preserving-an-open-future-for-kids
How, then, does “gender-affirming care” put a child in jeopardy? By placing him or her on a path of no return, parents and doctors endanger a child’s rights to self-determination and autonomy. He or she will likely never be able to reproduce or even to reach sexual climax. He or she will be forever dependent on hormones prescribed by doctors, undergo ongoing surgeries further to “feminize” or “masculinize” appearance, and suffer the pain, dysfunction, and follow-up operations that frequently accompany surgeries to create mock penises or vaginas. Perhaps worst of all, the child will be trapped in an identity that was formed and frozen in childhood—before puberty, before sexual awakening, and before he or she has had the opportunity to go through adolescence and put that difficult time of social, physical, and emotional change behind.
Legal philosopher Joel Feinberg divided children’s rights into various categories, one of which he called “the right to an open future.” Parents have the obligation to protect and preserve a child’s options so that the future adult can, upon reaching maturity, make fundamental decisions on his or her own. This protects the child “against having important life choices determined by others before she has the ability to make them for herself.” By preserving the future adult’s ability to make determinations about sexual and gender identity at an appropriate age, state bans on changing a child’s secondary sex characteristics promote just such an open future for children.
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