Reversing Gender Reassignment Surgery

With apologies to Shakespeare, if this be madness, is there any method to it? I am referring to the current debate over transgenderism. Now that the Trump administration is examining whether or not to limit the number of genders to two, decided at birth by biology, you should gird your loins for the coming anguished emotional hurricane.

After all, we have known, for decades now, that nearly three quarters of the children who believe themselves to be transgendered change their minds once they reach adolescence. The solution, proposed by activists-- give them puberty blocking hormones when they are children.

The second problem concerns the high level of suicide among those who have undergone gender reassignment surgery. The number is approximately 25%. The solution, now being offered by some clinics-- is gender reassignment reversal surgery.

The story appeared in the London Telegraph. It was republished in the Canadian paper, The National Post. (via American Digest)

The surgeon leading the world in both gender reassignment and gender assignment surgery is Prof. Miroslav Djordjevic, from Belgrade, Serbia. You will be discouraged to note that Prof. Djordjevic also plies his trade in New York at Mount Sinai Hospital-- which is a leading medical institution.

The problem is men who have been turned into a facsimile of biological women… who now what their external male genitalia reattached. In truth, I am not familiar with the way that this surgery is performed, and I am not that interested in the details. The story does spare us the details. One can only make sense out of this by imagining that some part of the male organ remains attached to the body. One also imagines that testicles cannot be reattached.

Anyway, here’s the story of an increasing number of transgendered males who transitioned into femalehood and who later changed their minds.

Five years ago, Professor Miroslav Djordjevic, the world-leading genital reconstructive surgeon, received a patient at his Belgrade clinic. It was a transgender patient who had surgery at a different clinic to remove male genitalia – and had since changed their mind.

Why did they do so? Professionals have know this for decades: these patients suffer from high levels of suicidal depression:

Those wishing the reversal, Djordjevic says, have spoken to him about crippling levels of depression following their transition and in some cases even contemplated suicide. “It can be a real disaster to hear these stories,” says the 52-year-old. And yet, in the main part, they are not being heard.

You might imagine that a surgeon would reconsider performing gender reassignment surgery. One does not know if this is the case. Doesn’t the Hippocratic oath begin with: First, do no harm.

So much for that.

Of course, the transgender lobby refuses to allow anyone to speak about these issues, no less research them:

Last week, it was alleged that Bath Spa University has turned down an application for research on gender reassignment reversal because it was a subject deemed “potentially politically incorrect”.

Given the media acceptance and even glorification of transgenderism, our culture is producing more and more transgender individuals. It is true in America and it is true in England. (Bath Spa University is in Great Britain.)

The story continues:

James Caspian, a psychotherapist who specializes in working with transgender people, suggested the research after a conversation with Djordjevic in 2014 at a London restaurant where the Serbian told him about the number of reversals he was seeing, and the lack of academic rigour on the subject.

According to Caspian, the university initially approved his proposal to research “detransitioning”. He then amassed some preliminary findings that suggested a growing number of young people – particularly young women – were transitioning their gender and then regretting it.

But after submitting the more detailed proposal to Bath Spa, he discovered he had been referred to the university ethics committee, which rejected it over fears of criticism that might be directed towards the university. Not least on social media from the powerful transgender lobby.

It is a case of pure bullying, one that many people are paying a very high price for. Most importantly, as noted, the cultural climate has put us in the business of producing transgenderism:

To date, all of his reversals have been transgender women aged over 30 wanting to restore their male genitalia. Over the last two decades, the average age of his patients has more than halved, from 45 to 21. While the World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines currently state nobody under the age of 18 should undergo surgery, Prof Djordjevic fears this age limit could soon be reduced to include minors. Were that to happen, he says, he would refuse to abide by the rules. “I’m afraid what will happen five to 10 years later with this person,” he says. “It is more than about surgery; it’s an issue of human rights. I could not accept them as a patient as I’d be afraid what would happen to their mind.”

Referrals to adult and child gender identity clinics in the UK have increased dramatically over the past 10 years. In April, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, the only clinic for adolescents in England, reported 2,016 referrals to its gender identity development service, a 42 per cent rise compared to the previous year, which in itself marked a 104 per cent increase on the year before that.

As I say, now that the Trump administration has declared its intention to challenge the transgenderist orthodoxy, you can expect an outcry. Apparently, Donald Trump is the only politician who refused to be bullied.