{"id":51422,"date":"2015-09-03T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_judge_oks_gender_surgery_opposed_by_48-year-olds_parents\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:40:48","slug":"ap_judge_oks_gender_surgery_opposed_by_48-year-olds_parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51422","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Judge OKs gender surgery opposed by 48-year-old&#39;s parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge on Wednesday cleared the way for a 48-year-old transgender woman to undergo gender-reassignment surgery, rejecting her parents&#8217; effort to have the operation blocked because they say she is mentally incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Kitzler demonstrated clear understanding of the three-hour procedure and its risks, Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. said, dismissing her parents&#8217; request that he appoint a legal guardian and subject her to an independent medical exam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy,&#8221; Kitzler whispered as the judge ruled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/urn:publicid:ap.org:ecbfa49358664333af28407c2069317e\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge on Wednesday cleared the way for a 48-year-old transgender woman to undergo gender-reassignment surgery, rejecting her parents&#8217; effort to have the operation blocked because they say she is mentally incompetent. Christine Kitzler demonstrated clear understanding of the three-hour<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51422\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,104,98,129,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}