- Why are intersex children subjected to unconsented traumatic genital surgery to prevent the "cognitive dissonence" of gender ambiguity which is assumed to result from their unacceptable genitals while phenotypically normal adult males who have been effectively socialized as men generally become very gender variant as a result of voluntary transsexual medicalization?
- Why is the "gender expression" of spontaneously feminine boys labeled Childhood Gender Identity Disorder and most often therapeutically discouraged and the "gender expression" of adult male crossdressers and autogynephilics socially and legally sanctioned?
- Why do the treatment protocols for m2f transsexuals fail to address treatment of extremely feminine boys at a meaningful age, when it will help them achieve good social and sexual function as girls, while facilitating feminization of adult men who will become less socially and sexually functional as a result?
- Why are intersex children of all socio-economic backgrounds subjected to unasked for destructive surgery early to "correct" their bodies and gender development before they can express gendered behavior, while hsts transkids expressing early and unambiguous feminine gender behavior are denied obviously helpful medical procedures as teenagers because they are "too young"?
This article, seemingly compelling at first, comes out with all sorts of mischaracterizations of the motivations of m2f transsexuals and doesn't even attempt to discover why some m2f's wait so long.
Google "transkids hoax"
返信削除By the way. The diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorder in Childhood is more political than anything.
返信削除Its a cosmo quiz with 5 questions and 4 have to be correct.
Its only correct in 5% to 10% of the cases and I think mainly a tool from Zucker, Bailey and others who established it, to "treat" unconforming behaviour in (cis) children.
A "know your place" pathology like the histeria for woman in the early last century.
I hope they soon find better criteria for diagnosing transsexuality in childhood to spare as many as possible from the horrors of a false puperty (And spare cis-children from corrective treatment a la Zucker) But with that DSM V Workgroup :-s
I've just seen, the writing is from Kiira Triea. She, together with Bailey tried to discredit the post mortem studies:
返信削除http://intersexusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/oii-investigation-introduction-and-part.html
The whole idea (of changes from HRT being the cause) is lost when the fMRT Studies came out which where done on pre-HRT people.
Interesting person.