Transgender teen removed from parents in order to start hormone treatment in Australis

I can just about get my head around the state removing a child from the family home, for their own protection (ie if suicidal, had an eating disorder, needed to be in a hospital.) But if the state then inject that child with testosterone....with all the life changing effects that will follow-that is just awful. Those poor parents & that poor child is now extremely vulnerable.

Could the parents not take this to the international court of human rights? This action clearly infringes their right to private family life - it has removed their child and broken up their family altogether.

I think it was stacy dooley who did a documentary on the romany children removed from their parents. The staff at the care home pimped out the girls

I remember hearing a radio programme about the aborigine children just taken from families -land place in homes or deliberately with white families. It was just shocking. But then the way the ‘orphan’ kids from the U.K. were treated wasn’t much better in a lot of cases.

Children treated like livestock.

The care system doesn't exactly have the best reputation. There have been cases of abuse etc in care homes. A troubled teen will no doubt he hard to place. Not to mention if they stick them in the boys dorm with the male staff...I mean do the math. I expect many of the children will no doubt have all sorts of issues , boundry issues etc as a result of all they have been through. They need the adults to try and reinforce them and keep them safe. How can that happen here

That’s child’s life is about to be ruined isn’t it?

Good god... if the kid is trans ( not that anyone can define it so no one even knows what we are actually talking about but go with it) then what difference will letting them get some unbiased independent counselling make? If they are trans they will still be trans at the end if it and adulthood isn't that far away now for them to do whatever they want. But if its one if multiple reasons /issues on top that we all know have not been properly explored , then maybe just maybe it will prevent irreversible changes to their body. Why ge so afraid ofnthen getting help younremive from their parents ffs. Think.being in a care home full of other kids probably far too.messed up themselves to have time to go along with pronouns etc of someone else will help their suicidality? Are they mad...ffs

Why provide a service for hormone therapy at the very time when a girls hormones are all over the place. Why not provide counselling instead. Why no support from the court or medical services for that first? It's terrifying that one aspect is insisted upon but the cause of this desire to change sex is not even discussed. Unfortunately true of how things work in other countries too when a teen (or pre-teen) wants to change sex,. it is all too easy. Transgenderism is top of the victimhood tree at the moment so is positively encouraged.

The parents seem to be sensibly asking for a second/independent opinion about their lonely depressed teen having elective medical procedures with lifelong consequences.

Watching with a heavy heart.

Watching closely with you .