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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrong link above: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13668663/Maryland-family-lost-custody-16-year-old-autistic-son.html[/quote]

That link doesn't support what you said either.

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DP. I don’t think the lawsuit is over. But what happened is terrible and raises some deep questions about the hospital’s ethics. I do believe that boy, and other vulnerable children, are/were being trafficked.

https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/childrens-national-hospital-ignores-teens-mental-health-to-indulge-gender-ideology
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That is an incredibly one sided article.  Some of that is because the psychiatric program at Children's National and CPS are both bound by confidentiality, so they can't respond to the allegations.  There is no way of knowing from that article whether there were ongoing safety concerns that prevented the kid from going home.

It's interesting that in the same article they argue that the young person needed to be released from the hospital to graduate from college, and that somehow because they have autism they need to be treated as a child, denied the right to choose who they live with as an adult, and forced to undergo a mental health exam.  The article talks about "returning the child to the parents", but that child is in fact a 19 year old.

It's also interesting that they talk about how the counselor that was brought in is "licensed in multiple states", while side stepping the question of whether he is licensed in DC, the only license that would be relevant to him participating in a therapy session in DC.

To be clear, it's possible that the hospital was 100% wrong here.  But it's also quite possible that the parents are painting a very biased picture, and there were legitimate safety concerns that warranted the extended hospital stay, and CPS's decision.[/quote]

And the child living with hospital chaplain? WTF! So many levels of crazy here and conflict of interest going on.  [/quote]

The ADULT is living with the hospital chaplain.  The article which is designed to get you up and arms skirts around the question of whether they were an adult when that happened.  The kid turned 18 in March 2023.  The foster mother died "sometime in 2023", so there's at least a 75% chance, more if the birthday is in early March, that the foster mom died after they were an adult.  It's also not clear if they went immediately from the foster home to the chaplain's home.  It seems likely, given that the goal of the article is to make people upset, that it was after their 18th birthday, because they'd say so otherwise.  But I guess there's a small chance they weren't.

But most likely this was an adult with a high IQ and a college degree.  They can live where they like.

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Technically. But there were a lot of shady things going on leading up to that 18th birthday.

IMO it should not be up to politicians to make laws about what is good health care.

However, transitioning minors and young adults should NOT be taken lightly, and there needs to be much more scrutiny of hospitals, therapists, and the entire industry. [/quote]

It’s really hard to get admitted to the psychiatric hospital.  This young person was admitted to the hospital after an incident that they describe as “cutting” and that the Christian therapist describes as a suicide attempt.  The parents then refused to engage in conversation about their kid’s needs and kept turning the conversation to their own agenda.  To me that seems like the parents are the ones taking the situation “lightly”.

As far as your comment that hospitals shouldn’t transition adults (young or old) lightly, the transition that the young person made was a social one.    Adults absolutely have the right to use the pronouns they want.[/quote]

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