George W. Bush Appointed Federal Judge Roger Benitez Strikes Down Democrat K-12 [22:52-27:53]

really not whether expressing gender and congruence is a pathological or healthy or whether social transitioning is or is not a medical procedure. The debate is a red herring. We're on top of page 23 at the top. The constitutional question is about when gender and congruence is observed, whether parents have a right to be informed and make the decision about whether further professional investigation or therapy is needed. Put another way, the question is whether being involved in potentially serious medical or psychological decision making for their school student is a parent's constitutional right. It is. How refreshing. Thank you, Roger Benitez. Thank you. It is line 6, page 23. Quote simply because the decision of a parent is not agreeable to a child or because it involves risks does not automatically transfer the power to make that decision from the parents to some agency or officer of the state. Most children, even in adolescence, simply are not able to make sound judgments concerning many decisions, including their need for medical care or treatment. Parents can and must make those judgments, unquote. That's parham, 442 US at 603. Medically, it is also the preferred course of action. Dr. Sangerberg opines question. This is from the transcript, okay? Question. And how would that have occurred when child Poe is indicating that mom has rejected her for even a sexual orientation change? Answer. Look, this is my bread and butter as a psychiatrist. If I tell a parent, I think your child has major depression, they don't celebrate and say, thank you very much, I'm so glad. They usually have a reaction of, oh no, they try to deny it. They don't want to accept it. That's normal. So if I said a diagnosis of general anxiety disorder, they're not happy with the diagnosis. Just like any parent wouldn't be happy to be told, listen, we think your kid has Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is curable. They're not going to be happy about it, but you need to involve the parent in the illness treatment. Why make gender dysphoria separate kind of treatment than other medical treatment where we want the parents to be involved? We would want the parents to be involved. And if the parents are having trouble with it, that's our job as physicians or as therapists to help them through it. We don't tell them your kid has Hodgkin's lymphoma, we're not going to tell you we're just going to treat your kid without you're knowing about it in tough luck. We would never do that in medicine. On the top of page 24, question, same transcript, okay. Did you ever have, is a block quote from a transcript? Question, did you ever have an occasion, have occasion to treat youth who had been rendered homeless because they had disclosed that they identified by a different gender to their parents? Answer, that's my San Francisco job you're describing. Geez, too many of them. And right around eighth in market, that's where they lived, so to speak, too, so too many. Question, so that's a very real risk of disclosing gender identity to parents that the child would be rendered homeless? Answer. If you don't work with the parents, if you don't work with the parents, that's a risk. The school needs to work with the parents to prevent adverse outcome of any psychiatric diagnosis. If they say to a parent, your kid is very, very depressed and bring them to a doctor and the doctor says, no, it's really major depression. Then the parents and the doctor and maybe the school collaborate to accept the diagnosis and then treat the child well. Now that's a deposition, end of that, end of that quotation. The defense experts do not meaningfully disagree. Geez. Tough stuff, man. Dr. Christine Brady, PhD, is a psychiatrist who has treated a thousand gender in congruent youth, 100% of her current patients are transgender and gender non-conforming youth. As an expert for the state defendants,