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Parents of Transgender Teen Lose Bid to Stop Mastectomy
Parents of Transgender Teenager Lose Bid to Stop Mastectomy
The parents had asked the High Court in London for an injunction banning their child from having a mastectomy BBC 26 NOV 2023 The parents of a non-binary 17-year-old have failed in their bid to prevent the teenager from having breast removal surgery after they were accused of believing that LGBTQ+ people were “evil and satanic... The parents had asked the High Court in London for an injunction banning their child from having a mastectomy. They also sought to have the teenager made subject of a psychiatric report, claiming their child’s sexual preferences were symptoms of a mental illness. But a High Court judge has refused to grant the injunction saying that while their child was only 17, they would turn 18 within days of the hearing and would therefore be able to give consent to gender-affirming treatment as an adult. The Hon Mr Justice Macdonald ruled it would be wholly disproportionate to permit an expert to examine the teenager. RELATED: |
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