[Jojoba]

Can your gynecologist tell your mom if you're a virgin if you tell her not to even though I'm only 14

[ScottGem]

Not without your permission.

[Mcsap9213]

I would highly suspect that a parent has a legal right to medical information about a minor child that is under their parental care.

[ScottGem]

I would highly suspect that a parent has a legal right to medical information about a minor child that is under their parental care.

Yes and no. The thing is that whether a girl has lost her virginity or not, is not medical information that would, necessarily, affect her health. So there would be no requirement to discuss it with a parent without the minor's permission.

[Mcsap9213]

I disagree. While it is not a medical condition...

It most certainly is of medical importance and the information is important to the resultant lifestyle which can have HUGE medical implications.

I do not see a minor child having any kind of authority to tell a doctor what they can and can't tell a parent about them. Minors under direct parental care and control have very few rights when it comes to medical history / information.

[ScottGem]

I disagree. While it is not a medical condition....

It most certainly is of medical importance and the information is important to the resultant lifestyle which can have HUGE medical implications.

I do not see a minor child having any kind of authority to tell a doctor what they can and can't tell a parent about them. Minors under direct parental care and control have very few rights when it comes to medical history / information.

And you would be wrong: Its not a matter of disagreement it's a matter of the law.

What about minors whose safety depends on the confidentiality of their health
information?
Notwithstanding the rules above, and regardless of any contrary state law,
health care providers and others may decline to treat a parent as a minor's
personal representative based on a reasonable belief that such a decision
would be in the minor's best interest and that the parent has subjected or
may subject the minor to abuse, neglect, or endangerment.
Even when the parent is the minor's personal representative, health care
providers and others may deny information to the parent to prevent substantial harm to the minor or another person.

http://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/med_privacy_guide.pdf

[J_9]

I think Scott summed it up well. If the parent is not in the examination room, the doctor has no right or responsibility to tell the parent what is said between minor and physician.

I'm left wondering, though, how a doctor can know that a person is a virgin without disclosure from the patient herself. The doctor can't. There is no way to tell whether a patient is a virgin strictly by exam unless the patient has been pregnant at one time in her life.