Child given drugs to delay onset of puberty

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by August

Poor kid.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/17...#ixzz1b3dM9Ajr

Not well up on US law but can't something be done under some child endangerment offence?

[August]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Not well up on US law but can't something be done under some child endangerment offence?

I would have thought so but this is California.

[mookiemookie]

Sick.

And I can only imagine that Fox is bringing us this news on the front page with a big screaming headline to make the point that all same sex parents all across the nation are abusers and unfit for parenting.

[August]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Sick.

And I can only imagine that Fox is bringing us this news on the front page with a big screaming headline to make the point that all same sex parents all across the nation are abusers and unfit for parenting.

Is it on the front page? I don't normally read it.

But of course they MUST have an ulterior motive right?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by August

Is it on the front page? I don't normally read it.

But of course they MUST have an ulterior motive right?

Just thought it was funny that it was headline, top of the page news when you go to www.foxnews.com. Why else would they do that?

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Lunatics come in all shades and sizes, and sexual orientation. I can dig up thousands of stories of hetero couples abusing and even murdering their kids.

Exactly right.

I seem to recall they did with the woman who was having cosmetic surgery procedures done on her child. This seems like it's along the same lines.

Could the last bit be relevant in another way?
That other story made headlines everywhere, everyone was shocked as it was a really shocking story, you could even say unbelivable.
Then it turned out it wasn't her child and the child wasn't having cosmetic surgery and but the child protection agency did get involved because it was exploitation of a minor to sell a made up story.
Come to think of it wasn't it another Murdoch "news" outlet that discovered that story?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Could the last bit be relevant in another way?
That other story made headlines everywhere, everyone was shocked as it was a really shocking story, you could even say unbelivable.
Then it turned out it wasn't her child and the child wasn't having cosmetic surgery and but the child protection agency did get involved because it was exploitation of a minor to sell a made up story.
Come to think of it wasn't it another Murdoch "news" outlet that discovered that story?

Oh seriously? I never saw the follow-up to that. Wow. That is pretty scummy.

[Reece]

Sick bastards!

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by Reece

Sick bastards!

Yes those bastards! How dare they follow the treatment advice of a pediatric psychiatrist and treat their child's condition! MONSTERS!

You don't just go to to a Wal-mart and buy these puberty blocking drugs over the counter. The child is under the care and supervision of a medical doctor familiar with the case who knows more than a 5 minute sound bite on TV.

This isn't the first case of something like this occurring and it won't be the last. Gender Identity Disorder is in the DSM and has a known treatment. If behavior therapy worked on GID, they'd be using it, because it's a heck of a lot cheaper and easier than surgery and hormones.

[danny60]

This is rediculous,
Their saying this child doesn't know what sex they are? If you can't figure that out theirs something seriously wrong, and it might be worth a trip down to the docs.
These "parents" should be ashamed of themselves, just because they want to be different doesn't mean they can force there child to be the same.

[tater]

The OP blur lacks critical information. Is the kid intersex? There are several legitimate types of intersex (a few years ago when I helped my wife study for her medical boards in urology I would have remembered all the types, lol, she made me go over all that with her since it was stuff she had not seen in RL). Anyway, if the kid has a physiological issue, this treatment is entirely right. It can make a difference in gender assignment surgery, etc, later.

Again, need more information.

Funny story. My wife saw an old guy—ww2 or korea vet (I can't remember)—at the VA when she was a resident. Married, no kids. Don;t remember what he presented with. She examines him, talks to him, etc. Goes out to the guys doc who has seen him at the VA for years and who called her for a consult... she asks him if he ever notice the guy's pubic hair was a triangle, not a diamond shape? The doc looks at her like "WTF?" She says, "the guy is intersex. Sure enough on some future bloodwork she adds some tests, and the guy is genetically female. (she never told the patient, BTW, some 80 YO doesn't need to know that). None of the guy's docs had ever noticed.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by August

But of course they MUST have an ulterior motive right?

Well, if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably isn't a chipmunk.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by August

But of course they MUST have an ulterior motive right?

They do have motivations. It does not have to be ulterior. In the case of Fox News, there is nothing ulterior about their motives.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by August

I would have thought so but this is California.

Human Rights Act?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Human Rights Act?

I imagine the child protective services agency in California is going to be looking into this. I seem to recall they did with the woman who was having cosmetic surgery procedures done on her child. This seems like it's along the same lines.