Ep. 1522 Parents Battle Over Transitioning 7-Year-Old Boy

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The parental custodianship case of James Younger -- the 7-year-old boy whose mother wants to "transition" into a girl named Luna -- generated much heat, particularly last week. Some people tried to claim that there was really nothing to the case, that it was all overblown, that the boy is too young for medical procedures anyway, and the whole thing was probably hysteria fueled by "transphobia." Madeleine Jacob, a reporter who observed the entire proceeding, joins me to set the record straight.

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0:34.7	Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:36.9	You may have heard the story of a custody battle involving a child named James Younger
0:42.9	that made the news.
0:44.8	And the matter appears to have been resolved, but I'm not really sure you can say it's
0:49.0	been resolved the way the judge decided it.
0:52.0	What it had to do with the mother's intention to transition James into Luna, the female
0:58.8	name she calls him by when he is with her.
1:03.1	There's a lot involved here, and there are a lot of issues that are raised by this, but
1:07.6	that really was the heart of the custody battle.
1:10.8	The question of who gets to make these decisions, more than anything else, who gets to make
1:15.0	health-related decisions for the child.
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