After reading all the responses so far in this thread, I just wonder if all the opinions and wisdom expressed came from actual knowledge gained from study and a well grounded base in child psychology, or from rants by religious nuts, right wing radio, and Trump rallies.
From what I have studied about children is their views will change vastly as they mature and grow. It maybe that the child is influenced by social pressure to please a figurehead in their life. We don’t allow children to smoke, drink, sign a legal contract, marry or vote because their minds are not developed enough to fully recognize the weight of their actions. Do you believe that a 7 year posses such awareness of their current and future needs to consent to a permanent life long decision such as this?
I don't know if it is a choice, and I'm very glad nobody is coming to me to decide. I do know there are experts in the field who have dedicated years of study to the matter, and they are 1000 times better qualified to make that decision than I or any other anonymous person on the internet who knows virtually nothing about the subject or the people involved. I can only assume the judge in the case has had adequate input from those experts to make a fair decision.
^ This post demonstrates one of the problems today, in terms of why we're sinking into insanity, and this applies to anyone but I mostly see it on the left. People are so easily influenced by "experts" that they literally throw common sense out the window and allow themselves to be influenced and manipulated to believe anything. To me this shows that some people don't have a firm foundation, and when you don't, literally anything goes.
What is happening is social conditioning, and what a lot of people don't realize is that it is by design. For me it's so obvious, I saw the writing on the wall several years ago, when they started pushing transgenderism on the public through TV shows, the media, etc. Then we started seeing the "experts", and this gets back to the problem I was referring to. When people treat medical organizations or "science" as infallible unquestionable Gods, without realizing that those areas can be corrupted, just like politics can, people will be manipulated to believe ANYTHING. Common sense is thrown out the window, a basic moral compass becomes completely out of whack.
Another thing that has to be said is that I specifically remember, before same-sex marriage was legalized, many of us were warning where all this is heading, and we were scoffed at and dismissed, by people saying, "There's no slippery slope, you are being paranoid."
Well, here we are today, when kids as young as 3 are being encouraged to change their genders, because their politically-correct deluded parent told them they were a girl instead of a boy. Slippery slope? This is one of those times when we can say
I told you so. And I don't think it's going to end here, it's going to keep going, if sane, decent people don't fight back.
