It's interesting to note the typical things a parent can prevent his or her child from doing: 1) Getting ears pierced. 2) Eating dessert before main course. 3) Watching TV before homework. 4) Wearing miniskirts. 5) Wearing excessive makeup like a sex worker. And then it's also interesting to list the things parents have trouble preventing their kids from doing: 1) Getting an abortion. 2) Cutting off their genitals and taking hormones to grow lady breasts, perhaps in the eventual hope of landing a job in Hollywood, on Broadway, or at the State Department. It's this topic #2 that is the subject of this story.  A mother who is estranged from her son is trying to prevent him from mutilating his body in his Icarus-like quest to become a girl.  Factual corrections to the article are in brackets. An emotional Minnesota mother announced Wednesday that she was suing her transgender 17-year-old daughter [son], St. Louis County, its school...(Read Full Post)