This is just categorically inaccurate bs that Musk has been amplifying. The 14 year old petitioned the courts, along with supporting documentation from their teachers, doctors and psychologist, to have legal emancipation, to make decisions about their own body. This “parental rights” claim is nonsense. You do not have a right to mandate how someone lives. Instead as a parent you have a responsibility to do what is best for the well being of your child - and your ability to oversee that diminishes with the age and capacity of the child. In Canada, courts have long established that adolescence can make serious decisions about their own physical and mental health, and each individual case is reviewed for capacity. The capacity tests requires the individual shows they are: -informed -understand all risks -understand the impacts and outcomes -can reason against other options and express an opinion in a manner that is not based on feelings alone In this case the courts held that the child was of sufficient capacity to have legal authority over their own health treatment. The father wasn’t jailed for “using the wrong pronouns” but instead for trying to deny his child of their medical treatment and autonomy that was granted by the court. And when a court grants someone their autonomy, and you try and deny it, that’s criminal. Courts and teachers did not push this treatment. The child advocated for it, and sought court remedy. He was granted by the courts the right to make his own decision, being found to have capacity of self. And no one gets to impede on your freedom of self, unless it’s to prevent harm to someone else. But if someone has capacity of self, you don’t get to unilaterally decide they can’t do something for their own selves.(Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth))