EXCLUSIVE: Dr Az Hakeem (pictured) worked at the Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust for 12 years and is the author of Detrans: When Transition Is Not The Solution.
It is unclear how many trans people who have a sex change detransition. Dr Hakeem said trans activists often claim it is one per cent, but this was ‘made up’.
He added the reality is that no one knows, because sex changes are ‘the only medical or surgical intervention for which there is no follow-up data collected or follow-up studies’.
He said 26 per cent of his patients at the Tavistock and Portman regretted transitioning.
Dr Hakeem said: ‘They are left in this situation of being adults with no genitals who the services don’t want to see and the trans community disowns.
By saying trans, Dr Hakeem said, ‘You’re lumping [transexuals] together people who have fetishes – men who get excited about wearing women’s clothes, and then men who fantasise about having a vagina and breasts.’
He added: ‘Kids are all identifying as trans or non-binary.
‘It’s become a new subculture. I was a post-punk goth. The current subculture is not a medical condition.
‘They are not really trans, it’s just the cool thing to do. When I was a teenage goth there was no goth identity clinic, luckily.
Dr Hakeem said it was completely normal for a child to question their gender.
However, instead of asking children why are thinking that, many people are simply agreeing with them, or ‘affirming’ their choice.
He said: ‘There’s a big push for affirmation only. Affirmation is not therapy, it’s a form of grooming.
‘We cart them off to gender clinics and physically castrate them.
‘Proper therapy is asking the child how they came to that conclusion, not just to say “yes you are [trans]”.
‘There’s this myth that people are born in the wrong body.’
He added that the existence of scores of different genders was ‘nonsense’.
‘It’s not evidence based. They have captured schools, the police, universities.
‘It’s a bit like people in a cult. They believe it. They are not psychopathic, malicious people.
‘They have been scared into believing his. If you’re not with them you’re against them.
It is incredibly difficult for me to understand how we got into the position where we ‘affirmed’ a clear mental health diagnosis with some kind of magical properties that set it against the rest of the DSM diagnosis.
Where is the outcry from those who suffer from schizophrenia who are deluded they are Jesus? And where is our support for them?
But when it comes to gender there is no wrong choice. In this one tiny area we are free to be ‘who we really are’.
I remember working with one young woman who ‘did not identify as female’ who rang up one day to cancel her appointment saying she ‘had a heavy period’. I could not say anything to disaffirm her delusion despite her sharing this purely XX biological phenomenon.
Think it’s bad now, wait for those who live ‘little lives’ and identify as babies. One day they will want their right to go to pre school again and get their nappies changed just like real babies do. And do we draw the line there? And if so why? There is no logical consistency.
The damage we have done (collectively as a culture) to these children who came to us for help has all the hallmarks of another Stolen Generation: The Castrated Generation. And the difference is that so many of us were actually shouting out that this is bad medicine but being brutally shut down and cancelled…