Best care I have ever received was at Concord Neuro. Caring, enthusiastic, on top of the medical research. They are exceptional.

Very sorry that happened. You're exactly right: the child's health needs should come first, including mental health. That's the necessity. And it applies to care and counseling for depression, anxiety, gender issues, dealing with bullies, whatever. No legislature should interfere.

Overall I tend to agree, except that mental health too is medical and can lead to medical necessity, which patients, family, and doctors should decide, not us.

What's your view on circumcision, repair of hare lip or cleft palate, ear piercing, dressing the way one feels, taking prescription medicines, etc.? If doctors, parents, and, most of all, the children themselves make decisions weighing all the factors, shouldn't the rest of us butt out?

So, bigots demand tolerance for their intolerance. If only some of them had heard of that guy--who was he?--who said 'whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.'