The letter from the Italian Psychoanalytic Society is consistent with the critical stance towards puberty blockers expressed by experts and scientific societies worldwideI
ll.ma Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni,
The executive of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society expresses great concern about the use of drugs aimed at producing an arrest of pubertal development in boys of both sexes who have been diagnosed with ‘gender dysphoria’, i.e. not recognising themselves as their biological sex.
Contraindications to this treatment must be seriously considered:
- The diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria’ in prepubertal age is based on the statements of the individuals concerned and cannot be carefully assessed as long as the development of sexual identity is still in progress.
- Only a minority of boys who state that they do not identify with their sex confirm this position in adolescence, after puberty.
- Suspending or preventing a subject’s psychosexual development pending the maturation of a stable identity definition is contradictory to the fact that this development is a central factor in the definition process.
- Even in cases where the declared ‘gender dysphoria’ in prepuberty is confirmed in adolescence, the developmental arrest cannot result in a body that is sexually different from the original one. The sexual development of one’s own body even when it contradicts an opposite internal orientation allows an erotic fulfilment that a ‘blocked’ or manipulated body does not offer.
The current experimentation eludes careful scientific evaluation accompanied by in-depth reflection on psychic development and gives rise to serious perplexity. It is important to initiate a rigorous scientific discussion on the issue of boys with gender problems, to which the Italian Psychoanalytic Society will gladly contribute.
On behalf of the Executive of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society
The President
Sarantis Thanopulos
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