The Emperor Has No Y Chromosome

And is thus an empress. Here's the story.

An Australian court has allowed a 17-year-old girl who believes she is a boy to have her breasts surgically removed, it was reported.

Emphasis mine - notice the way this was worded. Too many newsrooms would have referred to this person as a boy.

The teenager had been on hormone treatment since age 13 to block puberty and applied to the Family Court for permission to undergo a double mastectomy to make it easier for her to pass as a boy, Fairfax newspapers reported.

This is child abuse.

[The rest is below the fold if you care to read it.]

The paper reported the youth, referred to as Alex, suffered from "gender identity dysphoria," a psychological condition where a person has the normal physical characteristics of one sex but believes they are the opposite gender.

What about children who think they are Superman? Do we take them to the top of a tall building and push them off?

Family Court chief justice Diana Bryant said the court decided to allow the breast removal because evidence from medical experts, Alex's counsellor and an independent children's lawyer "overwhelmingly" backed the move.

That is because we have allowed too much of our "expert" consensus to be hijacked by a radicalized agenda.

Bryant said Alex could have had the operation without court approval at age 18, although that would have meant the teenager missed out on social support services available to a minor.

Wouldn't want that, now would we? After all, the social support she is getting has been so bang-up so far. I have never gotten a satisfactory answer to this question:

Why do we, as a society, support removing perfectly healthy body parts and injecting people with hormones so they can pretend to be the opposite sex, but we don’t offer this support to people who want their healthy limbs to be amputated? Sorry, but political clout (including within psychological organizations) isn’t enough justification for this difference.

I'd also like to know, if sex differences don't matter enough to warrant preferring bride-groom parenting over same-sex parenting, why they are important enough to "warrant" surgery and horomone treatments in an effort to be more like the other? And, please, if there are any readers out there who do not believe there is such a thing a spirit or soul distinct from the physical body, and yet you buy into the need to have "gender reassigment" surgery - please explain to us how it could be possible for someone with female genitalia, chromosomes, and hormones to actually be a male, thus justifying "gender reassigment".

I believe that we are doing these people a disservice. They may have problems, but their problem isn't having the wrong body parts.