A disturbing story from Australia.
A sad little girl who has been given male hormone medication since the age of twelve (by court order) is about to have her breasts removed at age seventeen - again by court order.
Given the current cultural fascination with sexual ambiguity it seems very likely that those who have to deal with this child have focused on this aspect of her problems, quite most probably to her further detriment. And instead of helping her cope with the reality she finds herself in they have been vainly trying to modify that reality through drugs and now radical surgery.
And this immediately raises the question, will any of this do anything at all to enhance this child's quality of life?
To which there is no pat answer.
But recall that less than forty years ago the solution to this child's problems might well have been seen as the removal of the frontal lobes of her brain - a procedure that fills us with horror today.
And I'm picking that in the future that we will view this child's gender reassignment in much the same way.
A sad little girl who has been given male hormone medication since the age of twelve (by court order) is about to have her breasts removed at age seventeen - again by court order.
"Sex-change operations are just a form of mutilation."
If you follow the link and read the story it is immediately apparent that this child has major problems that go well beyond those of so called gender identity dysphoria.medical ethicist
Nick Tonti-Filippini
Given the current cultural fascination with sexual ambiguity it seems very likely that those who have to deal with this child have focused on this aspect of her problems, quite most probably to her further detriment. And instead of helping her cope with the reality she finds herself in they have been vainly trying to modify that reality through drugs and now radical surgery.
And this immediately raises the question, will any of this do anything at all to enhance this child's quality of life?
To which there is no pat answer.
But recall that less than forty years ago the solution to this child's problems might well have been seen as the removal of the frontal lobes of her brain - a procedure that fills us with horror today.
And I'm picking that in the future that we will view this child's gender reassignment in much the same way.