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LOL. You don't know me very well, do you? As a person, and especially as a parent, I'm as far from "controlling, self-centered, and narrow-minded" as it's possible to be. But the thing is, I am a parent, and you are not. I have the experience of creating and raising two human beings, and I know the love and the joy and the pride and the hopes and the dreams, and also the fears, the worries, the sacrifices, the times when one feels burdened, the struggle to maintain the relationship with the other parent that existed before the children were born. And as a parent, I say that the right to name your newborn child is one of the privileges of parenthood that can certainly legally be cast aside by the child, (and I wouldn't change that) but to do so is supremely disrespectful. And I don't pretend to speak for all parents, but I do speak for some, from the perspective of a parent, which is something that you just plain can't do. And as such, I couldn't care less about your judgments.

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In the case of transgender people, I would consider that an extreme case, which, since only .3% of the population is transgender, it really is.