The problem there is if you wait until they are old enough and mature enough to understand and say yes - have you hurt them by not doing the surgery or the medication earlier?

BBC: Male or female? Babies born on the sliding sex scale

If that's what you want to do, there are plenty of people willing to say yes, I am not one of them.

NPR: Plan to Legalize Undocumented Immigrants Progresses

And yes, regardless of whether or not Congress decides to sue them.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hindsight to augment our foresight

Yes, many of them are marginalised from mainstream workplaces but this does not mean they should be rampantly (or even slightly) abused.

ECONOMIST: Under new management

The role of Congress is not to speed up laws and appointments but to test them and, yes, often to delay them.

ECONOMIST: Congress and the judiciary

And yes, newspapers do chase their readership rather than mould them, they cater to the prejudices of their likely audience, not inform them as to what those prejudices should be.

FORBES: News International and the Charlotte Church Countdown Clock