Megan Will Be a Boy
May 23, 2014
A BRITISH woman describes her alarm over her 16-year-old daughter’s decision to go through “sex change” treatment. National Health Service clinicians have offered to treat the girl without her parents’ consent.
She has been told to dress and live as a boy for two years — called RLE, or Real-Life Experience — after which she will be given the male hormone testosterone, which will mean she will grow a beard, her incipient curves will be eradicated and she will acquire the body and voice of a man.
This process is, at that stage, irreversible. So during Megan’s teens — at a time when views and opinions change on a daily basis; when emotions are in a constant state of flux; when bodies are barely developed — she will be given the licence to make an irrevocable decision.
Megan’s parents are divorced. Nevertheless, her mother insists she had “an idyllic upbringing filled with expensive holidays, pony rides and private schooling.” Perhaps Megan is trying to tell them something.
