Meredith’s parents had no legal recourse against the Ivy League school they had hired to educate her, only despair over the course she had chosen, and a lingering sense of betrayal. So many adults were aiding Meredith’s medical transition, as if she were merely changing phone plans, not pursuing an irreversible course to disfigure her body. “I feel like we’re paying for them to ruin our daughter’s life,” Meredith’s mother told me. The school in question is the sort of place whose logo parents dream of placing on their car’s rear window. Now Meredith’s mother would prefer to watch the place
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