Psychiatrist says his expertise trumps parents' rights when working with transgender children

There’s a lot to unpack in this brief video. As we’ve said before, “parents’ rights” has become a term of derision to leftists. Parents think they know better than teachers how to raise children. Parents are terrorizing school boards over progressive indoctrination like critical race theory and academic queer theory. In March, a Washington Post editor told PBS when he hears “parental rights,” he hears, “parental rights for whom?” A month later, New York Magazine’s Sarah Jones wrote that “the parental rights movement actively threatens the safety and wellbeing of children and by extension, democracy itself.”

Take a drink whenever you hear a liberal call something a “risk to democracy.”

As we reported a day ago, Christopher Rufo showed some whistleblower documents indicating that Texas Children’s Hospital’s announcement that it was discontinuing “gender-affirming care” for minors was short-lived.

Texas Children’s Hospital was partnering with the Baylor College of Medicine, and it just so happens this psychiatrist was wearing his Baylor gear when he shot this video about what “parents’ rights” means to him.

NEW: A psychiatrist working with Texas Children's Hospital's child sex-change program explains how he circumvents "parental rights" concerns by telling families that if they do not affirm their child's "preferred name and pronouns," they will increase "the risk of suicide." pic.twitter.com/ApORF33viS

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 17, 2023

We’ve had it with that. “If you don’t let us remove your daughter’s breasts, she’s likely to kill herself” — as if that were the only approach.

@AbigailShrier was spot on.

— Mark, Darkly Optimistic (@mkos66) May 17, 2023

100 percent.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 17, 2023

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That's emotional blackmail

— Brianna Price🇺🇸🦅 (@briprice661) May 17, 2023

Will these doctors be held accountable for these lies and atrocities they pushed on children and parents?

— January Littlejohn (@JanuaryDoNoHarm) May 17, 2023

Serious question: do you think he really believes this, or is he just using it to advance his own agenda?

— Rocky Mountain Tired of All the Lying (@subsix848) May 17, 2023

I think it is baked into their professional standards now.

— Un-nudgeable (@KPlorable) May 17, 2023

Absolutely vile.

— Max (@CleverMaxName) May 17, 2023

Many mental health professionals go into the profession because of their own mental health traumas … this guy is a big 🚩

— cynthia malison (@cindy_malison) May 17, 2023

Evil. Evil unwittingly masquerading as righteousness and enlightenment.

— DV Williamson — The Free-range Economist (@dv_williamson) May 17, 2023

How does this person still have a license?

This is not scientifically grounded advice; it’s emotional blackmail.

— Janine Curran (@janinereturns) May 17, 2023

He's not the only one. I was told the same thing, over & over. It's emotional blackmail. It's impossible to find a non-woke therapist. I know my child, I love my child. I made sure my child knew that, daily. She no longer believes she is trans & thanks me for protecting her.

— AAAug (@AAugustine22) May 17, 2023

"Do what we want or your children will die." It's a threat.

— D B Coolper 😎 (@D_BCoolper) May 17, 2023

Emotional blackmail bordering on a violent threat.

— Zackary Russell (@ztrussell) May 17, 2023

To go to school, spent big money and a lot of time getting an education to then turn out something like this. What a waste.

— Robert Mera (@YoSoyRobertMera) May 17, 2023

It’s kind of stupid, but it reminds this editor of Dr. “Bones” McCoy on “Star Trek” looking at the medical procedures of the past (our present) and calling them barbaric. How long before we look back at “gender-affirming care” the same way?

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Update:

Here’s an ethics professor taking on the hurdle of “parents’ rights”:

NEW: Baylor College of Medicine ethics professor Claire Horner, who trains doctors working at Texas Children's Hospital, explains that "parental rights" are the biggest "hangup" that might stop them from performing sex-change procedures on children. pic.twitter.com/SraiJxxAUU

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 17, 2023

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Related:

Christopher Rufo calls out children’s hospital that was stopping ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors https://t.co/iSVGTLkrmd

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 16, 2023