When Your Teenager Asks You to Sterilize Her, Your Job as a Parent is to Obey

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Really? Your job as a parent is to ALWAYS agree with your child? If your 12-year old daughter tells you she is a boy (based on the fact that she likes to climb trees and doesn’t like make-up), your job is to sign her up for surgery and testosterone? Your job is to always follow her directive, based on things she heard at school and from other teenagers, and then unflinchingly do your part to turn her into a life-long medical patient?

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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