January 20, 2021 - 7:00 AM A B.C. mother who tried to block her 17-and-a-half-year-old son from having gender reassignment treatment has lost her case in court. According to a Jan. 18 decision, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Diane MacDonald blocked a series of civil court actions the mother launched against her son in an effort to obtain his medical records and prevent him from undergoing gender-affirming surgery. The ruling will now allow the teen, whose gender was assigned female at birth but identifies as male, to continue to proceed with gender reassignment treatment. There is clearly a broader public debate regarding whether gender-affirming surgery is in the best interest of youth, the justice said in the decision. In B.C. that debate has been resolved in favour of surgery.