Does Kat Boone deserve a sympathetic front-page profile in the New York Times?

Heart-warming piece here, as people are finally coming around to permitting 18-year-olds assigned male at birth by society to cut off their genitals and live as females:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/n...t-surgery.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

 

I know that four times out of five you are working on another agenda when posting articles, Dick, but are we supposed to read the name Kat Boone and know who that is?

I am trying to figure out if I should already know the name in the headline, or maybe I am just out of it, like when the name Peaches Geldof was thrown around here, like she was a "A" lister.

 

Oh, that's just the end. The process for children takes a while. Hormone therapy begins long before puberty.

New Dallas clinic works with transgender children and teens | The Star Telegram The Star Telegram

 

This couldn't possibly be a decision a teenager might come to regret.