I agree with Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves. We are sterilising and surgically mutilating children.
I’ve watched countless videos of ‘gender affirmation’ surgeries gone wrong, including victims developing fistulas (the medical term for ‘hole’) between their colon and surgically constructed vagina allowing gas to pass through. I’ve seen a trans man (a female who had undergone phalloplasty surgery) speak about requiring liposuction on their newly minted penis because it had the girth of a coke can. I’ve seen victims of these surgeries speak of kidney infections due to an inability to fully pass urine, stitches ripping open, colostomy bags, catheters, loss of sexual function, regret and remorse.
We don’t yet have any Australian detransitioners willing to speak publicly about their regret, but they exist.Puberty blockers are not without risk. The most debilitating side effect is reduced bone density. A highly publicised case in Sweden saw an 11-year-old girl develop chronic back pain from extended use of puberty blockers which was later diagnosed as osteopenia – the early stage of osteoporosis.
Another known complication for male to female transitioners is that puberty blockers also block the normal pubertal growth of male genitalia. This issue was made famous by TV reality star, Jazz Jennings. After a course of puberty blockers starting at age 11, followed by cross-sex hormones, it came time for Jazz’s ‘gender confirmation’ surgery. The surgeons discovered there was not enough penile tissue to work with due to stunted growth, but they went ahead anyway. After the initial surgery, the stitches split open requiring emergency intervention. Not happy with the external appearance, Jazz underwent a third ‘cosmetic’ surgery and was finally ‘super happy with the results’.
At the age of 18, Jazz revealed never having experienced an orgasm.
So when Katherine Deves tweeted that children are being ‘surgically mutilated and sterilised’, she was right. We are setting these kids up for a lifetime of health complications, sexual dysfunction, and deep regret. It is a medical scandal in the making and time will vindicate Deves.
Source: Is Deves right about children being harmed? | The Spectator Australia