Transgender Rights Gone Mad - Oregon To Allow 15-year-Olds Sex Change Without Parental Permission
By Jeff Ackerman
While some states are upping the minimum age for buying a pack of cigarettes to 21, Oregon is allowing 15-year-olds to get a sex change operation without parental permission.
In fact, Oregon may help pay for it.
That little-known “tweak” to Oregon’s medical consent law took effect at the start of the year, so most of us wouldn’t really notice it until we got a call from our daughter — who was our son last time we saw him — asking to be picked up at the hospital.
I’m not really sure how old you should be in order to make a decision to have a sex change operation, so I can only compare it to other age limitations.
Take driving, for example. Oregon lawmakers maintain that you be at least 16 years old to drive a motor vehicle. Someone must have determined that anyone under 16 wasn’t really capable of understanding the fundamentals of brakes, gas pedals and steering wheels and how and when they need to be operated safely.
Oregon’s new marijuana laws will pretty much follow the same rules as liquor, making it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy it. Someone must have figured that anyone under 21 wasn’t responsible enough to make a decision like that.
And in their infinite wisdom, lawmakers determined they could draft you into the Army and send you to war at 18, but not serve you a drink when you came home from that war unless you were 21.
Oregon’s age of legal consent when it comes to having sex is 18, so people under 18 aren’t capable of making a rational decision as to having sex, but they can when it comes to changing their sex?
They also determined that you aren’t capable of voting until you are 18, despite zero evidence that people 18 and over have made educated decisions at the polls.
Oregon’s medical consent age has been 15 for some time. That consent, however, didn’t include a sex change operation until the state’s Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) changed its policy to include “cross-sex hormone therapy, puberty-suppressing drugs and gender-assignment surgery,” according to a story last week by Seattle-based reporter Dan Springer. “Gender-assignment surgery” is the politically correct term for sex change.
We must be careful how we choose our words these days. The politically correct police are everywhere.
You are probably part of the 99.9 percent of Oregonians who have never heard of HERC, a group of folks appointed by the governor to adopt policies having to do with your child’s sexual orientation. According to its website, that commission’s primary mission is to prioritize health spending within the Oregon Health Plan.
According to its website, “The commission uses a transparent public process to ensure that its decisions are made in the best interests of the patients and taxpayers…”
It’s tough to be transparent when nobody knows you exist, and I never heard of HERC before last week. It could explain the lack of public participation at meetings.
If it’s true that the human brain isn’t fully developed until you are 23 or so (if ever), how can a 15-year-old decide on his or her own to have a medical procedure that would change him or her forever?
I had a lot of crazy thoughts at 15, and I’m thankful I didn’t act on 65 percent of them. And in today’s digital social-media world, it’s easy to imagine how confusing things can get to a 15-year-old, especially when it comes to sexuality.
I read a story that the amount of information coming at us 24 hours a day, seven days a week is causing brain freeze, or our ability to make good decisions. Add a little social-media peer pressure to that mix and you have a recipe for disaster.
The media seems to glamorize transgender behavior — even putting Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner on the cover of a glamor magazine. Millions of great women in the world doing amazing things and Vanity Fair plants a former dude/athlete (Jenner) on the cover as a symbol of courage?
In other words, what most 15-year-olds want more than anything is to be cool, and it doesn’t get any cooler than “self-identifying” as the opposite sex these days.
It even comes with perks. Some politicians can’t complete a sentence without including a “transgender” or “self-identify” reference. You can be anyone you want to be today by simply “self-identifying.” Just ask the Caucasian woman who ran a chapter of the NAACP because she “self-identified” as black.
Proponents of the Oregon sex-change measure say it will reduce the number of teen suicides, or young people who would rather die than ask their parents for permission to have a sex change.
Better to surprise them and ask forgiveness?
One leading psychiatrist told the reporter that Oregon’s policy amounted to child abuse. “We have a very radical and even mutilating treatment being offered to children without any evidence that the long-term outcome of this would be good,” he said.
He wondered if the average 15-year-old “even understands the consequences of the procedures they are undergoing.”
If we don’t think they are capable of understanding the consequences of drinking, driving or having sex, how can 15-year-olds possibly be expected to understand the consequences of “cross-sex hormone therapy”?
Even if they do understand, I’m still wondering why taxpayers should pay for a sex change operation no matter how old you are. Why wouldn’t that come under the category of elective surgery?
Now that you know HERC exists and that it welcomes public comment, here’s how to contact commissioners:
Health Evidence Review Commission
500 Summer St. NE, E-65
Salem OR 97301
Email: HERC.Info@state.or.u
In fact, Oregon may help pay for it.
That little-known “tweak” to Oregon’s medical consent law took effect at the start of the year, so most of us wouldn’t really notice it until we got a call from our daughter — who was our son last time we saw him — asking to be picked up at the hospital.
I’m not really sure how old you should be in order to make a decision to have a sex change operation, so I can only compare it to other age limitations.
Take driving, for example. Oregon lawmakers maintain that you be at least 16 years old to drive a motor vehicle. Someone must have determined that anyone under 16 wasn’t really capable of understanding the fundamentals of brakes, gas pedals and steering wheels and how and when they need to be operated safely.
Oregon’s new marijuana laws will pretty much follow the same rules as liquor, making it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy it. Someone must have figured that anyone under 21 wasn’t responsible enough to make a decision like that.
And in their infinite wisdom, lawmakers determined they could draft you into the Army and send you to war at 18, but not serve you a drink when you came home from that war unless you were 21.
Oregon’s age of legal consent when it comes to having sex is 18, so people under 18 aren’t capable of making a rational decision as to having sex, but they can when it comes to changing their sex?
They also determined that you aren’t capable of voting until you are 18, despite zero evidence that people 18 and over have made educated decisions at the polls.
Oregon’s medical consent age has been 15 for some time. That consent, however, didn’t include a sex change operation until the state’s Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) changed its policy to include “cross-sex hormone therapy, puberty-suppressing drugs and gender-assignment surgery,” according to a story last week by Seattle-based reporter Dan Springer. “Gender-assignment surgery” is the politically correct term for sex change.
We must be careful how we choose our words these days. The politically correct police are everywhere.
You are probably part of the 99.9 percent of Oregonians who have never heard of HERC, a group of folks appointed by the governor to adopt policies having to do with your child’s sexual orientation. According to its website, that commission’s primary mission is to prioritize health spending within the Oregon Health Plan.
According to its website, “The commission uses a transparent public process to ensure that its decisions are made in the best interests of the patients and taxpayers…”
It’s tough to be transparent when nobody knows you exist, and I never heard of HERC before last week. It could explain the lack of public participation at meetings.
If it’s true that the human brain isn’t fully developed until you are 23 or so (if ever), how can a 15-year-old decide on his or her own to have a medical procedure that would change him or her forever?
I had a lot of crazy thoughts at 15, and I’m thankful I didn’t act on 65 percent of them. And in today’s digital social-media world, it’s easy to imagine how confusing things can get to a 15-year-old, especially when it comes to sexuality.
I read a story that the amount of information coming at us 24 hours a day, seven days a week is causing brain freeze, or our ability to make good decisions. Add a little social-media peer pressure to that mix and you have a recipe for disaster.
The media seems to glamorize transgender behavior — even putting Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner on the cover of a glamor magazine. Millions of great women in the world doing amazing things and Vanity Fair plants a former dude/athlete (Jenner) on the cover as a symbol of courage?
In other words, what most 15-year-olds want more than anything is to be cool, and it doesn’t get any cooler than “self-identifying” as the opposite sex these days.
It even comes with perks. Some politicians can’t complete a sentence without including a “transgender” or “self-identify” reference. You can be anyone you want to be today by simply “self-identifying.” Just ask the Caucasian woman who ran a chapter of the NAACP because she “self-identified” as black.
Proponents of the Oregon sex-change measure say it will reduce the number of teen suicides, or young people who would rather die than ask their parents for permission to have a sex change.
Better to surprise them and ask forgiveness?
One leading psychiatrist told the reporter that Oregon’s policy amounted to child abuse. “We have a very radical and even mutilating treatment being offered to children without any evidence that the long-term outcome of this would be good,” he said.
He wondered if the average 15-year-old “even understands the consequences of the procedures they are undergoing.”
If we don’t think they are capable of understanding the consequences of drinking, driving or having sex, how can 15-year-olds possibly be expected to understand the consequences of “cross-sex hormone therapy”?
Even if they do understand, I’m still wondering why taxpayers should pay for a sex change operation no matter how old you are. Why wouldn’t that come under the category of elective surgery?
Now that you know HERC exists and that it welcomes public comment, here’s how to contact commissioners:
Health Evidence Review Commission
500 Summer St. NE, E-65
Salem OR 97301
Email: HERC.Info@state.or.u
posted by Michael Plemmons @ July 13, 2015
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