I wrote this up for my other blog, and I think it is very topical here. Transgender children are so vulnerable, and it’s heart breaking when they are rejected by their parents. I can’t help the sheer rage I feel when parents do this to their children.
From the article:
According to Clancy, the teen’s parents spent the entire case “trying to show that their child is not transgender.”“A reasonable parent,” he said, “would never tell their own child to kill themselves because they were going to hell, anyway.”
Source: Prosecutor: Parents’ refusal of transgender treatment made teen suicidal
From the article:
The parents refused to accept their son, forcing him to spend six hours a day in a room listening to Bible verses. They did not allow him to change “appearance to a male look” or seek hormone replacement therapy.
I mean, this was used in abu ghraib, where prisoners were forced to listen to bible verses continuously like this. Here is a whole article discussing how the bible was used in this way as a force for torture.
No wonder a 17 year old boy was suicidal. His parents were torturing him, in addition to…
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