This is one of those stories we WISH we could tell you was made-up.
We wish we could, but unfortunately, it’s true and it’s repugnant and it looks like a complete nightmare just waiting to happen in Oregon.
Fox News reports:
The list of things 15-year-olds are not legally allowed to do in Oregon is long: Drive, smoke, donate blood, get a tattoo — even go to a tanning bed.
But, under a first-in-the-nation policy quietly enacted in January that many parents are only now finding out about, 15-year-olds are now allowed to get a sex-change operation. Many residents are stunned to learn they can do it without parental notification — and the state will even pay for it through its Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan.“It is trespassing on the hearts, the minds, the bodies of our children,” said Lori Porter of Parents’ Rights in Education. “They’re our children. And for a decision, a life-altering decision like that to be done unbeknownst to a parent or guardian, it’s mindboggling.”
In a statement, Oregon Health Authority spokeswoman Susan Wickstrom explained it this way: “Age of medical consent varies by state. Oregon law — which applies to both Medicaid and non-Medicaid Oregonians — states that the age of medical consent is 15.”
You may be outraged at this point. You might want to scold Oregonians for making this terrible choice, but you’d be making a mistake and here’s why:
So if any Complications to surgery occur,who is Liable,I wonder.
Hell no…..
don’t you think even the worst parent will notice that Little Billy left for school and returned as Little Sally
I see many more dear abby “help im a man trapped in a womans body and a lesbian to boot” letters in the future….
For those of you who didnt read that one it was a transgendered woman (previously a man) who grew up to realize he wanted to be a man and liked women. ….. thats the short of it.
Drs with a death wish
This is why I’ll never go to Oregon, for they are Un-American.
This is sick goverment overreach they should sue the state
And who pays for this “sex change”?
This is disgraceful as hell. I hope parent will take legal action again these stupid morons! Thsi just goes to show what happens when you put stupid liberals in charge!
Thats because though they claim to be the superior humans of nature and environmentalism, they are in ACTUALITY so out of touch with what is natural and sacred, (that being the family and parental authority) that they no longer know right from wrong or common sense from craziness.