A report has claimed that residents in Oregon are only now finding out that the state
allows teenagers as young as 15 to get state-subsidised sex-change operations without
parental notification. ‘It is trespassing on the hearts, the minds, the bodies of our
children,’ Lori Porter of Parents' Rights in Education told Fox News on Thursday.
‘They're our children. And for a decision, a life-altering decision like that to be done
without the knowledge of a parent or guardian, it's mind-boggling .’ The executive
director of the Trans-Active Gender Centre in Portland, said the Fox News report is
‘irrational’ and the policy does not mean that 15-year-olds can simply walk into a
doctor's office and get sex-change surgery. The facts are: The age of consent has been
15 since 1971. Youth in Oregon can access all healthcare at the age of 15. For sex-change
operations they do not have to be older than 15.