12 Year-old Boy Undergoing “Sex Change” in Order to Prevent Damage to his Personality
There appears to be growing concensus among the elite in the psychiatric community who contradict the logic of using evidence based medicine to appropriately diagnose and effectively treat patients afflicted with gender dysphoria; choosing, instead, to collaborate with the illness and authorize a cosmetic mutilation commonly called a sex change operation. The scientific facts are that chromosomes, not genitals or cognitive discernment, determine gender. While in the womb, prenatal hormones shape the brains of the child, so rest assured, there is no invasion of a body waiting to trap a brain of it’s opposite sex.
Given the scientific evidence of gender development vs. a two year old insisting that he is a girl, I tend to support science. Unfortunately, there is resistance to provide any type of documented, long term follow up for those who undergo a sex change. I wonder why that is? Could it be the physicians and therapists who support this type of intervention ignore the facts that point to the appropriate diagnosis of Gender Identity DISORDER, so subsequently, they leave an illness untreated?
As for a story of the 12 year old boy who is undergoing hormonal therapy in order to protect his personality, I’m trying to understand how a denial of reality and deception used in conjunction with hormonal injections are supposed to nuture a healthy personality. As for the theory of a male being trapped in a female’s body, why do you suppose some men who have had their gentalia removed to become a pseudo-woman have wives and girlfriends? Thankfully, I don’t get “it”.
Catholic teaching in this area is clear. It is impossible to “change” a person’ sex.
Some relevant posts that we have done on this issue include: Extreme Makeover: The Tragic Edition and Sex and Human Personhood: Sex Differences.
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Two thougthts. This is sooo Cartesian. The idea that this child is in the wrong body is so bizarre.
Second, what must have happened to this child to make him want to be a female. I just can’t see how any male would have any concept of what it is like to live as a female, and to think that this child wants this done is almost as bad as having adults supporting him in this horrible endeavor.
On a lighter note, I loved seeing my scorpion and duck on the blog roll to the right. Thanks!
Comment by dadwithnoisykids — January 29, 2007 @ 11:31 pm
Kim’s puberty blocking treatment is such good news! This way, she’ll have her options preserved should she change her mind when she is older. Nothing irreversible is being done…that’s what is so great about this.
Praise the Lord for giving us humans the minds and motivations to ease suffering in all it’s forms.
Whatever our relationship between our genders and bodies, we are all God’s children.
Comment by Alyssa — March 1, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
Alyssa - regardless of the motivations, unfortunately here these minds are being misused. Human nature is given to us by God; we cannot try to manipulate our bodies as though they had no connection to our souls. What they are doing is disrupting the boy’s natural development because they can. Since these doctors apparently do not have a complete understanding of the human person, the are potentially causing irreparable damage to this young boy. Furthermore, by assuming a distorted view of sex difference, they are leaving untreated the underlying problem associated with the boy’s dysfunction. Modern medicine is a blessing but when it is applied by doctors with a Cartesian view of reality, it can quickly become a curse as well.
Comment by David — March 1, 2007 @ 1:36 pm