Posted on 11/18/2018 9:06:23 AM PST by rickmichaels
Let me be absolutely clear: I am in no doubt there are people who feel they are one gender while having the body of the other.
Living with such constant, internal conflict is horrifying for many of those affected, and it should never be ignored.
No one should seek to suppress another persons genuinely held sexual orientation or gender identity.
But the question we must ask ourselves today is this how do we decide whose needs are genuine? And how, then, should we treat them?
I have been a psychotherapist for more than 30 years and, in that time, I have worked with a small but significant number of patients who wished to change gender.
For everyones sake, I believe that surgery which is irreversible should only ever be a last resort. We should always begin by working to help the mind fit better with the body before we start altering the body to fit the mind.
Yet in todays NHS, professionals are enabling hundreds possibly thousands of teenagers to have major surgery to change their gender.
It is being done, almost unchallenged, in the name of transgender rights. But in 20 years time, I believe we will look back on this folly as one of the darkest periods in the history of modern medicine.
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Child Abuse. Heinous Evil.
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