
Those Who Speak Podcast
Those Who Speak - Episode 21 -Alexandra Lyashchenko
<p>In this episode, Christina & Courtney speak with Alexandra Lyashchenko, a Ukranian- born mother who is a citizen of the United States. She discusses how California authorities removed her 15 year old daughter after she and her husband refused to "affirm" her as a boy or consent to testosterone and surgery. </p><p>Alexandra describes how her family became entangled with schools, clinicians, child-protection authorities and the courts- and the devestating consequences of refusing to medicalize a vulnerable child. Her story raises urgent questions about parental rights, informed consent, child safeguarding and what happens when ideology is allowed to override the...

