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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

A father has launched a last-minute legal action to stop his 'vulnerable' autistic son undergoing a sex-change operation next week.

The man, who does not want to be named, believes both the child and adult NHS gender services have failed to properly explore his 21-year-old son's 'fragile' mental health and how it impacts his decision-making.

His son is due to undergo 'vaginoplasty' surgery on Saturday, which involves removing male genitalia and creating female parts.

Aged 13, he began attending the scandal-hit Tavistock child gender clinic in London and was prescribed puberty-blocking drugs against his parents' wishes at 16.

Two years later he was transferred to an adult NHS gender clinic in north-west England before being referred for the vaginoplasty procedure when he was 19.

'We were just devastated when we heard he was getting surgery,' his father said.

'He's been through the shambles that is the Tavistock and then on to the adult services, which I think is far less stringent.

'They were continually affirming him. I don't think the adult services have taken into account his autism and fragile mental health. He had a lot of self-harm and at least one suicide attempt that we know of. We're convinced that the puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones actually made his mental health worse.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That article describes the scheduled surgery as removing his male genitalia and creating female parts. Wording like this is completely and utterly misleading. No female parts are created. Male genitalia are removed and an open wound, often lined with part of the colon, in need of permanently ongoing, very painful, dilation is left in its place. The wound is in constant high risk of infection and necrosis. Though this is often unrecognised in the early stages because pain and unpleasant odour are the norm for "neo-vaginas' so the infection is often at a more dangerous stage before it's diagnosed.

Obviously, most of us here know that. But the general public has no idea. Most people know a real vagina isn't created but they have no idea whatsoever that these surgeries are essentially something from a gross out horror film. When journalists use this neat marketing language to describe the surgeries they are complicit in hiding reality and legitimising experimental body modifications so horrific they should be categorised as the worst kind of grievous bodily harm.

[–]JulienMayfair 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I knew a trans woman who suffered with this. She passed pretty well socially, but as I got to know her better, she told me that she regretted surgical transition because the neo-vagina was chronically infected and was sexually non-functional.

Doctors give these patients completely unrealistic ideas of the results of this kind of surgery.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Doctors give these patients completely unrealistic ideas of the results of this kind of surgery.

I think that we may start to see these operations being stopped as organisations like the NHS and other European health providers stop funding them due to the lack of evidence that they’re effective or even safe. I think medical researchers are going to be able to be much more critical of the trans narrative going forward, due to the absolute shitshow that has been occurring at places like Tavistock and the fact that it is all coming out in the press.

We, in Europe, may have passed peak trans. The for-profit nature of medicine in the US may mean that it takes longer for the change to happen there, but the wave of legislation regarding children is a good start.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think Europe is, as a whole, at the same point. The UK is at the forefront of turning the tide. In Ireland we're, collectively, still some way off peaking, though I do know that a lot of people are beyond peaked just largely quiet about it. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens here in the near future, as our way of dealing with the gender "dysphoric" was to refer them to Tavistock as part of an NHS/HSE cooperation.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, you’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have said “European”.

[–]Clownfall 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doctors give these patients completely unrealistic ideas of the results of this kind of surgery.

Not so much the doctors as the armies of online activists who sell transition as a fresh start at life, a fix for any mental healt problem, a chance to become somebody new and wonderful, even with a new 'rainbow family', with no significant risks at all!

On Reddit, the so-called 'trans community' will actively censor honest discussion of poor surgery outcomes, as it goes against the cult mentality of 'affirmation only, at any cost'. A trans person with poor surgical outcomes is almost as bad as a detransitioner to the cult.