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. Show notes for Ep. 1522
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the 2019 winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, which releases a new episode every weekday. Visit https://tomwoods.com