@Article{
AUTHOR = {Smith, Emmanuel Smith and Rusavuk, Andre Leo Rusavuk},
TITLE = {Treatment for Gender Transition & Parental Obligations},
JOURNAL = {Journal of Controversial Ideas},
VOLUME = {6},
YEAR = {2026},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {0--0},
URL = {https://jci.jams.pub/article/6/1/319},
ISSN = {2694-5991},
ABSTRACT = {Proponents of gender transition procedures argue that parents have a moral obligation to support and facilitate a child or adolescent in the decision to transition medically. In this paper, we challenge this idea. We contend that parents of children and adolescents have a moral obligation to oppose medical transition. To argue for this claim, we present and draw conclusions from a series of cases that are similar in their morally relevant details to cases involving medical transition for children and adolescents. Given such similarity, we contend that, on pain of irrationality, one must issue the same judgments across the board. If one does not make the same judgments about the cases, then the onus is on the defender of medical transition for children and adolescents to highlight a morally significant asymmetry. We argue that no such asymmetry exists.},
DOI = {10.63466/jci06010008}
}