Judge grants 12-year-old girl sex change
A judge in Australia has ruled that a 12-year-old girl may begin the first step in getting a sex change. That’s quite a drastic life altering decision to make for someone who hasn’t even entered puberty. How old do you have to be to get a tattoo in Australia, 5?
It was reported yesterday that during a hearing in December, the court heard that the girl from Victoria had thought of herself as a boy since the age of four. Several medical experts, including a psychiatrist, backed her application for a sex change.
The judge said that while the initial treatment was reversible, it needed to be seen as the first step in a process which, if continued, would allow the girl to live as a man.
“In my view, and on all the evidence, the treatment is in [the child’s] best interests,” the judgment said.
Further court applications will have to be made if the child wants to take the process further. Surgery to remove her womb and ovaries or construct a penis cannot be performed before the age of 18.
Information from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...
