Since 2018, at least ten girls aged between 10 and 14 have gone under the knife in Switzerland to have their healthy breasts surgically removed within the so-called gender affirmative care. The number of young women aged 15 to 19 who have undergone “torsoplasty” to achieve a masculine-looking chest in Switzerland is said to be at least 58, a Swiss association has revealed. Three boys under 18, according to the data published by AMQG, have had their penis amputated during the same period.
AMQG, a Swiss association advocating for a “measured approach towards gender-questioning youth,” has obtained the publicly available figures on “gender affirming surgeries” from the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics. According to the association’s press release, these statistics do not represent the real number of Swiss trans-identifying children and youth operated on, as they “do not include outpatient treatments or operations performed in private clinics.”
In May 2022, a spokesperson of an influential Geneva association “supporting trans kids,” Le Refuge, claimed there were no children given gender surgeries in Switzerland.
“There are no children who undergo surgery, nor teenagers and pre-teens. Sexual reassignments or torsoplasties are done when they come of age, or even after. It is quite rare that they are done before. So there’s no topic around that,” she stated.
The website of another Swiss organization advocating for “gender affirming care” for children and youth, Agnodice, claims the only possible intervention from the age 14 onwards is a mastectomy, and that genital surgery is performed from the age of 18.
Speaking to 4W, Stéphane Mitchell, Vice President of AMQG described their motivation for publishing the data: “We want the debate to be based on facts and figures. What the data shows is that children and teenagers are being mutilated in Swiss hospitals. We will continue to monitor the figures to see if the recent Self-ID law is catching on.”
Source: Switzerland: Minors, Including under 14s Have Undergone Sex-Change Operations