Parents Try To Block Adult Son From Transitioning To Female Some people are still having a really hard time accepting transgender people. On elderly couple from Pennsylvania is so resistant to their 48-year-old son’s transition that they are sitting before a judge to have him declared mentally incompetent to block the surgery altogether. Via MailOnline : A transgender woman whose parents went to court Wednesday to block her gender-reassignment surgery said she would rather die on the operating table than continue living with male anatomy. The proposed surgery in Pennsylvania – which was temporarily halted earlier this week by a suburban Philadelphia judge as he considered a longer stay – would also save her from backsliding into alcohol and drug addiction, Kitzler said. Her parents, Klaus and Ingrid Kitzler, contend she is not competent to make an informed decision to have the surgery because of depression and a childhood learning disorder, and they want a temporary guardian named. Their daughter, 48-year-old Christine Kitzler said: ‘I might die from this. But it’s worth dying. I would rather die than live the way I was and return to my bad addictions, like alcohol, because I can’t do it and I won’t do it.’ Testifying at the hearing, Klaus Kitzler underscored his concern for his daughter’s health and said he would accept her surgery if an independent psychiatrist deemed her fit to make the decision. ‘I accept it, but I want to stop it,’ Kitzler told the judge. ‘I would love to have a son back who goes to church with us on Sunday mornings.’ While we can totally understand these parents not agreeing with their son’s transition, this is an adult with the right to do whatever she wants. They can’t make these kind of decisions for someone nearly 50 years old.
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Parents Go To Court To Block Their 48-Year-Old Son From Undergoing Gender Reassignment Surgery
