{"id":1960,"date":"2024-04-16T01:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juventudeemtransicao.pt\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2024-04-16T01:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:29:41","slug":"entrando-no-horrivel-mundo-das-cirurgias-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juventudeemtransicao.pt\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/entrando-no-horrivel-mundo-das-cirurgias-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrando no horr\u00edvel mundo das cirurgias trans."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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WPATH, or the\u00a0World Professional Association for Transgender Health<\/a>, is respected as the peak body for transgender medicine. Its \u201cstandards of care\u201d (SOC) were once regarded as a benchmark for ethical and effective treatment for minors and adults. The\u00a0eighth edition (SOC8<\/a>) , which was released in 2022, has been translated into ten languages.<\/p>\n

Its prestige, however, has been tarnished by the leak of hundreds of posts from an internal messaging forum. These are evidence of doctors basing their surgery, even on young people, on trial and error, not on medical research. The internet went wild over the leak. The Times of London called WPATH\u00a0quack medicine<\/a>, and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology\u00a0Lauren Schwartz, MD<\/a>\u00a0stated: \u201cWPATH has evolved into one of the most egregious disfigurements of medical practice our profession has ever encountered.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the real scandal emerges not just in leaks of confidential discussions but in what is publicly known about WPATH\u2019s authorized procedures. The word \u201ckinky\u201d comes to mind over and over again. I wonder if President Joe Biden had these in mind in\u00a0his message to the trans community<\/a>\u00a0on Easter Sunday: \u201cYou are loved.\u00a0 You are heard.\u00a0 You are understood.\u00a0 You belong.\u00a0 You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The President of the United States has endorsed what is effectively a nationwide program of sexual lobotomies. This is completely nuts.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the fetish-appeasing surgeries that WPATH is pushing.<\/p>\n

Non-binary<\/h5>\n

Chapter 8 in SOC8 is devoted to treatment of non-binary people, who desire to appear neither male nor female. WPATH surgeons are ready to comply with their demands. One problem is that there is no agreed definition of what \u201cnon-binary\u201d means \u2013 and therefore of what treatment may be needed. In fact SOC8 acknowledges that \u201cAt times, nonbinary people find themselves educating the provider from whom they are seeking services despite the inappropriateness of providers relying primarily on their patients for education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is this medicine or is it making it up as you go along?<\/p>\n

Prior to the latest WPATH guidance, \u201cbottom surgeries\u201d were limited to binary surgical options such as vaginoplasty (creating an open wound to be used as a vaginal canal) or phalloplasty (constructing a non-functional penis). However, WPATH shifted to accommodate the\u00a0emerging trend<\/a>\u00a0of individuals who prefer a \u201cqueer\u201d identity that does not conform to either male or female biological sex classifications. These surgeries cannot remotely be construed as medically necessary. Gender-queer \u201cidentities<\/a>\u201d can include eunuchs, gendervoids, demi boys, pangender etc, etc. There are customized surgeries for them all.<\/p>\n

Eunuchs<\/h5>\n

Chapter 9 in SOC8 is devoted to eunuchs. Eunuchs? You might have thought that the last eunuch died when the last Turkish sultan closed his harem. But no, some fetishists want to be castrated. WPATH doesn\u2019t regard this as a psychological problem.<\/p>\n

SOC8 welcomes eunuchs under its \u201cgender diverse umbrella\u201d. This kind of surgery is deemed legitimate because otherwise clients will engage in sado-masochistic \u201cactions that may cause them great harm,\u201d ie, self-castration. There are apparently two types of eunuch surgery: one removes the testicles (bilateral orchiectomy) and the other eliminates the penis (penectomy).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speculating on the inclusion of the infamous eunuch chapter, Canadian psychologist\u00a0Jordan Peterson<\/a>, in conversation with journalist Michael Schellenberger, who released the files, suggests sadism very likely provided the impetus.<\/p>\n

Nullifications<\/h5>\n

An even more radical variety of non-binary surgery is nullification, which results in an absence of external primary sexual organs.\u201d This \u201cBarbi smoothie<\/a>\u201d surgery entails \u201camputating genitals for a smooth, sexless appearance.\u201d\u00a0 The idea is to achieve a \u201cflat front\u201d or genital-free torso preserving only urethral and anal openings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a double mastectomy, females identifying as nonbinary typically request the skin nipple grafts be destroyed, modified, or moved out of normal alignment. Additionally, they may request some portion of breast mound tissue be retained to allow for day-to-day \u201cfluid\u201d shifts in gender moods. Nullification surgery for a female sacrifices her vagina together with the clitoris and labia.<\/p>\n

Now for something completely different<\/h5>\n

The idea of a \u201csex change\u201d is essentially binary and therefore old-fashioned. There are only two sexes, so there are only two possible sex changes \u2013 male to female and female to male. A gender fluid world opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities. Let me quote this paragraph from SOC8:<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditional surgical requests for nonbinary people [assigned male at birth] include penile-preserving vaginoplasty, vaginoplasty with preservation of the testicle(s), and procedures resulting in an absence of external primary sexual characteristics (i.e., penectomy, scrotectomy, orchiectomy, etc.).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

WPATH Surgeon Dr. Thomas Satterwhite brags in the leaked files of his willingness to undertake these kinky surgeries:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve performed mastectomies\u00a0without nipples<\/a>, or have created chests with varying degrees of remaining breast tissue, or created incision patterns specific to my patient\u2019s wishes. For bottom surgery, I\u2019ve performed\u00a0minimal-depth vaginoplasties<\/a>\u00a0(vulvoplasties),\u00a0phallus-preserving vaginoplasties<\/a>, and\u00a0nullification<\/a>\u00a0procedures. I\u2019m quite comfortable tailoring my operations to serve the needs of each patient.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In other words, you can have bespoke genitalia. A particularly repugnant example is\u00a0bigenital surgery<\/a>\u00a0(penile-preserving vaginoplasty). Yes, this is a Thing. Some folks want both male and female sex organs.<\/p>\n

In fact, a 33-year-old Ontario man is currently in litigation to obtain taxpayer-covered bigenital surgery with Dr Curtis Crane, a specialist transgender surgeon in Austin, Texas. The litigant has refused the binary option, which would remove his penis to construct a vagina; he claims that this would be akin to gay conversion therapy.<\/p>\n

Dr Crane<\/a>, a WPATH member, explains his ethics in a\u00a0promotional video<\/a>\u00a0on his website. \u201cI can\u2019t think of a time that a patient has come up with a surgical request that I haven’t been able to fulfill,\u201d he says. \u201cI had a trans man come to me and he wanted a phalloplasty but he wanted to keep his vagina and I said, well you know no problem. I’ve never been asked to do this and I’ve never there’s certainly not anything published on it and I’ve never seen it but I’m happy to think about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

So he did some \u201csoul-searching\u201d. This was his reasoning: \u201cbeing a trans man or trans woman or non-binary has nothing to do with your anatomy, has nothing to do with what’s between your legs.\u201d Furthermore, he reasoned, \u201cif gender exists on a continuum why then would my surgical treatments be binary? It doesn’t make any sense to recognize that gender exists on a continuum but I’m only going to offer all male options or all female options.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Crane has been the subject of\u00a0multiple lawsuits<\/a>. One of his former patients,\u00a0Scott Newgent<\/a>, warns that these innovative genital surgeries can result in a lifetime of complications not easily resolved even when \u201crepair\u201d surgeons are willing to tackle the botched results from the original surgeon\u2019s mistakes. Newgent strives to make the public aware that surgeons like Crane are conducting \u201csheer experimentalism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, this is only the beginning. Non-binary psychotherapist\u00a0Laura A. Jacobs<\/a>\u00a0served on the committee drafting SOC8. She complains that all modifications are modelled on \u201ccis bodies\u201d. Why not be\u00a0more creative<\/a>, she asks. \u201cDo we have to stick to penis and vagina norms? Can we have genitalia that looks like flowers or abstract sculpture? Can we have multiple? Can they be interchangeable?\u201d<\/p>\n

Child and adolescent psychotherapist\u00a0Dr. Elliot Kaminetzky<\/a>\u00a0poses the obvious question: \u201cAt what point do we stop pretending this is healthcare?\u201d President Biden, are you listening?<\/p>\n

The good news: WPATH is on the way out<\/h5>\n

In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, surgeons gave thousands of people a kind of brain surgery called a lobotomy. The originator of the procedure received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949. It was billed as a wonder cure for mental illness \u2013 and even for homosexuality. Too late, doctors decided that lobotomies were almost completely bogus. Nowadays it is a byword for medical malpractice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe horrifying story of lobotomy should have served as a cautionary tale for the medical world, illustrating the dire consequences that can occur when doctors swiftly embrace novel, innovative procedures without first subjecting them to thorough scientific scrutiny to establish their value, safety, and effectiveness,\u201d says\u00a0Mia Hughes<\/a>, the author of the WPATH files report.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, doctors seem to be less enthusiastic about transgender surgeries in recent months. Over the last year, membership of WPATH appears to have\u00a0fallen by 60 percent<\/a>, perhaps as a result of scandals and the repudiation of its methods by British and European medical authorities. Something is in the air.<\/p>\n

WPATH is beginning to look increasingly like the defunct American Pain Society (APS). This organization established\u00a0a subjective rating scale<\/a>\u00a0used to prescribe pain medications. It quickly took hold throughout the healthcare system \u2013 and it helped fuel the opioid epidemic. By 2019 the APS had\u00a0closed<\/a>, facing allegations that it colluded with opioid producers.<\/p>\n

WPATH may meet a similar fate. It can\u2019t come too soon.\u00a0Dr David Bell<\/a>, a psychoanalyst and former staff governor of the main gender\u00a0 clinic in the UK, the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service foundation trust, declared: \u201cI do not know how any responsible medical authority can do anything after the release of these files but break off all ties with WPATH, and indeed condemn its continued existence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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