It's Time to Protect Children from Inappropriate School Interference

The articles below discuss two recent cases where public school officials encouraged two girls, ages 11 and 13, to change their gender without their parents' knowledge. Neuroscience tells us that a child's brain does not fully develop its reasoning ability until later in life, until about ages 21 to 25. The reasoning part of the brain, the pre-frontal cortex, does not fully develop its connections with the rest of the brain until about ages 21 to 25:

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyc...ContentID=3051

https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families...aking-095.aspx

https://paradigmtreatment.com/teens-...developed-age/

Young teens are not equipped to make such enormous decisions. In addition, at their age, they can be strongly influenced by peer pressure and/or by non-family adult authority figures. Young teens are simply not equipped to deal with such pressure and influence, especially when it comes to making a decision about elective surgical alteration of their bodies.

I think we need laws to protect children from school personnel who would engage in such conduct. I also think we need laws to prohibit gender-transition surgery for anyone under the age of 21.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/maine-...on-no-accident

https://www.foxnews.com/media/califo...nsition-gender

https://www.foxnews.com/media/califo...ders-knowledge

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