MEDICIDE 101: LGBTQ+ Ideology Demands Sex Reassignment for Younger and Younger Children
French clinicians are objecting to this policy, calling it “abducted childhood”. In an open letter published on the L’Express website in association with the Observatory of Ideological Discourses on Children and Adolescents, over fifty medical professionals and prominent academics, including doctors, legal experts, educational experts, philosophers, sociologists, psychiatrists, judges, and psychoanalysts excoriated transgender ideology and condemned “sex reassignment” in children. This letter was covered by almost no one from the international press. We will remedy this by re-publishing this letter on our blog journal.
Here is the letter in full:
(Taken from: Changement de sexe chez les enfants : “Nous ne pouvons plus nous taire face à une grave dérive” — L’Express (lexpress.fr)
We can no longer remain silent about what appears to us to be a serious drift committed in the name of the emancipation of the “transgender child” (the one who declares that he was not born in the “right body”). Radical discourses legitimise requests for sex change on the basis of feelings alone, which are set up as the truth. But this is at the cost of lifelong medical or even surgical treatment (removal of breasts or testicles) on the bodies of children or adolescents. It is this phenomenon and its high media profile that concerns us, not the choices of transgender adults.
Perhaps thinking it might provide an answer, the Scottish Government has issued new LGBT inclusion guidelines since 12 August, under which children from primary school age will be able to change their names and gender at school without their parents’ consent. Without their consent and even without their parents being informed if the child requests it.
Children are made to believe that a girl could become a boy and vice versa because they have decided to do so without the advice of adults, and this is happening at an increasingly young age.
What is happening in our neighbouring countries could very quickly happen in France: the protean diffusion of these beliefs has resulted in a considerable inflation of requests for sex changes among children and more particularly among teenage girls in recent years. According to Jean Chambry, a child psychiatrist in charge of the CIAPA (Centre Intersectoriel d’Accueil pour Adolescent) in Paris, nearly ten years ago there were about ten requests per year; in 2020, there will be ten requests per month (only for the Ile-de-France region). He talks about a worrying acceleration in medical responses to these transitional requests.
Trivialised speeches claim that we could do without the biological reality, the sexual difference between men and women, in favour of chosen singularities based solely on “feelings”. These misleading ideological discourses are transmitted on social networks where many teenagers with identity problems come to seek solutions to their malaise. In the name of “self-determination” — a slogan that appeals to all progressives — children and teenagers are convinced that they can change their sex with the help of hormone treatments or even mutilating surgery. This rhetoric, spread by activists in many Western countries, uses fallacies designed to deceive.
Childhood abduction
How did we get here? And do we (still) have the right to react without being insulted or threatened? How can these rights to self-determination be a fulfilling progress? This phenomenon, the “transgender child”, is in reality a contemporary mystification that must be vigorously denounced because it is a matter of ideological embrigadement. They would have us believe that, in the name of the well-being and freedom of each individual, a child, freed from the agreement of its “reactionary” parents, would be able to “choose” its so-called gendered identity.
But the child is a being under construction, his or her future is in constant evolution before reaching a stage of maturity. Neuroscientists, developmentalists, psychoanalysts, child psychiatrists, paediatricians and all specialists in early childhood are unanimous on this subject.
The child, and even more so the adolescent, is subjected to a hold which leads to mental destabilisation, a break with the family if it does not support the child and with all those who refuse to share its point of view. This hold generates an anti-social and accusatory discourse, a specific idiom or even a novlanguage is imposed on those around them. The discourse of these young people is often stereotyped as if they had lost all critical thinking (which is a characteristic of the hold).
We denounce this abduction of childhood. It is now urgent to inform as many citizens as possible, of all professions, of all sides, of all ages, about what could well appear tomorrow as one of the greatest health and ethical scandals, which we would have watched happen without saying a word: the commodification of children’s bodies. For by persuading these children that they have been “assigned” a sex at birth, and that they can freely change it, they are made lifelong patients: lifelong consumers of hormonal chemicals marketed by pharmaceutical companies, recurrent consumers of ever more surgical operations in the pursuit of the chimerical dream of a fantasy body. At present, countries that were in favour of medical transition before the age of majority are banning hormone treatments for minors (Sweden, the United Kingdom and some states in the USA …).
This dogmatism leads to great confusion so that no one knows how to act and raise their voice, often for fear of certain LGBTQI+ associations. But this acronym covers very different people, some of whom, like us, are worried about the current drifts. Some are subject to the law of silence that reigns in this environment. The Swedish documentary Trans train shows that young adults, left to their own devices and threatened if they speak out publicly, have been pressured by their trans community if they have expressed doubts or “detransitioned.”
Confusion reigns, largely maintained for the purpose of manipulating humanity in its deepest substratum: its evolution, its temporality, its wanderings and its doubts. In the name of rejecting a supposed gender assignment, we are in the process of witnessing, embarrassed, without understanding anything, an identity assignment. Thus Claude from the Club des cinq, once described as a tomboy, is now presented as transgender. We could laugh about it if it weren’t symptomatic of our era, which is struck by political radicalisms that pre-empt all debate.
No, in the name of protecting children we can no longer remain silent! We refuse to accept that, in the name of “human rights”, we should challenge this common base — the universalism of rights — which constitutes the foundation of humanity.
(English translation taken from: ‘Manipulating humanity’: French medical professionals, academics denounce transgenderism | The Bridgehead)
List of 50 professionals who have signed this letter:
Signatures
Nicole Athéa (endocrinologue-gynécologue), Elisabeth Badinter (philosophe), Anne-Laure Boch (neurochirurgien, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière), Thierry Baranger (magistrat honoraire, ancien président des tribunaux pour enfants de Paris et de Bobigny), Marie-Jo Bonnet (historienne, écrivaine), Jean-François Braunstein (philosophe, professeur à l’université Panthéon Sorbonne), Anna Cognet (psychologue clinicienne), Alain Cornec (avocat), Laurence Croix (maître de conférences, université de Nanterre), Chantal Delsol (philosophe, membre de l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques), Bernard Devauchelle, (professeur de médecine et chef du service de chirurgie maxillofaciale du CHU d’Amiens), Marie Josèphe Devillers (militante lesbienne féministe), Christine Le Doaré (juriste, militante féministe), Catherine Dolto, (haptothérapeute), Corinne Ehrenberg (psychanalyste), Caroline Eliacheff (pédopsychiatre, psychanalyste) Xavier Emmanuelli (médecin, président du Samu Social international), Nicole Farges (psychologue, psychanalyste), Natalie Felzenszwalbe (avocate honoraire), Isabelle Ferrari (co-fondatrice AMQG (Approche mesurée des questionnements de genre chez les jeunes) à Genève) Christian Flavigny (pédopsychiatre, psychanalyste), Esther Fouchier (présidente du Forum Femmes Méditerranée), Pascale Fourcade (psychiatre), René Frydman (professeur de médecine), Delphine Girard (professeure de lettres classiques en collège, militante laïque), Bernard Golse (pédopsychiatre, psychanalyste (APF), professeur émérite de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent, université de Paris), Julie Gosselin (informaticienne, féministe), Nadia Guenet (réalisatrice de l’émission radio “la révolution sera féministe”) , Liliane Kandel (sociologue, féministe, membre du comité de rédaction des Temps modernes), Annick Karsenty (présidente de l’Association “femmes solidaires” à Marseille), Aaron Kimberly (Gender Dysphoria Alliance, Canada), Frédérique Kuttenn (ancienne chef du service d’endocrinologie et de médecine de la reproduction à l’hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière), Rhadija Lamrani Tissot (psychanalyste, linguiste), Jean-Pierre Lebrun (psychiatre, psychanalyste), Manuel Maidenberg (pédiatre), Danièle Manesse (linguiste, chercheuse en didactique des langues, université Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Céline Masson (professeur des universités), Martine de Maximy (magistrate honoraire, ancienne juge des enfants), Isabelle de Mecquenem (professeur agrégée de philosophie, membre du conseil des sages de la laïcité), Scott Newgent (TReVoices), Sylvie Quesemand Zucca (médecin, psychiatre), Gérard Rabinovitch (philosophe, sociologue), Jean-Pierre Rosenczveig (ancien président du Tribunal pour enfants de Bobigny), Hana Rottman (pédiatre, pédopsychiatre), Olivia Sarton (juriste), Dominique Schnapper (sociologue, politologue), Myriam Szejer (pédopsychiatre), Sonia Timsit (psychiatre, psychanalyste), Claire Squires (maître de conférences, université de Paris), Samuel Veissière (anthropologue et professeur de psychiatrie transculturelle à l’Université McGill de Montréal), Jean-Pierre Winter (psychanalyste), WHRC-France (Women Human Rights Campaign (Droits des femmes fondés sur le sexe).
