Centre-right French politicians want gender transition treatments for under-18s banned, based on a report they commissioned which described sex reassignment in minors as potentially ‘one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine’, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals they claim are indoctrinated by a ‘trans-affirmative’ ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.
Citing a ‘tense scientific and medical debate‘, the authors of the report accuse such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors through intense propaganda campaigns on social media.
LR senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, who led the working group behind the report, concluded that ‘fashion plays a big role’ in the rise of gender reassignment treatments.
If this factor and the risks involved are underestimated, she added, ‘the sexual transition of young people will be considered as one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine’.
LR senators now want legislation to ban the medical transition of minors in France by halting the use of puberty blockers and hormones to people under 18.
The report, citing British, Swedish and American studies, said that the number of children identifying themselves as trans had surged over the past decade.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the conclusions of the French report are in line with those of British experts who investigated London’s Tavistock clinic over its use of mass gender reassignment surgery on minors.
David Bell, a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, found that a third of the children consulted at the Tavistock suffered from autistic disorders, and many were victims of family violence or had difficulty in accepting or expressing homosexuality, yet they were rushed into gender transition regardless.
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