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   From: nospam@ix.netcom.com   
      
   French Senators want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s,   
   after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of   
   the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”.   
      
   The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains   
   (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it   
   claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway   
   of experienced trans-activist associations.   
      
   The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses   
   such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense   
   propaganda campaigns on social media.   
      
   Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, an LR senator who led the working group behind   
   the report, concluded that “fashion plays a big role” in the rise of   
   gender reassignment treatments.   
   If this factor and the risks involved are underestimated, she added, “the   
   sexual transition of young people will be considered as one of the   
   greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”.   
      
   LR senators now want to table a Bill by the summer that would effectively   
   ban the medical transition of minors in France by halting the prescription   
   or administration of puberty blockers and hormones to people under the age   
   of 18.   
      
   Sex reassignment surgery could also be banned for minors.   
      
   Reacting to the report, Ypomoni, a French parents’ group, said: “We   
   welcome this return to reason.”   
      
   Maud Vasselle, a mother whose daughter underwent gender transition   
   treatment, told Le Figaro: “A child is not old enough to ask to have her   
   body altered.   
      
   “My daughter just needed the certificate of a psychiatrist, which she   
   obtained after a one-hour consultation. But doctors don’t explain the   
   consequences of puberty blockers,” she added.   
      
   “My daughter didn’t realise that life wasn’t going to be so easy with all   
   these treatments... She was a brilliant little girl but now she’s failing   
   at school. And she is far from having found the solution to her problems.”   
      
   Shocking and ideological   
   Transgender activists and certain health professionals expressed alarm at   
   the report.   
      
   Clément Moreau, the clinical psychologist and coordinator of the mental   
   health unit of the association Espace Santé Trans (Trans Health Space),   
   said the report was “shocking” and called the move “ideological”.   
      
   “Using blockers if necessary or hormones before coming of age reduces the   
   rate of suicidality, depression and anxiety,” he added.   
      
   The French report comes after the NHS banned children from receiving   
   puberty blockers on prescription earlier this month.   
      
   France’s health regulation body, the Haute Autorité de Santé, was already   
   examining a similar move.   
      
   The LR senators want to accelerate the process following the report.   
      
   Citing British, Swedish and American studies, the report said that the   
   number of children identifying themselves as trans has exploded over the   
   past decade.   
      
   One hospital in Paris receives around 40 new requests from minors every   
   year, with 16 per cent of those under the age of 12 and the report points   
   out that many suffer from other issues.   
      
   A quarter of the children seen at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital for   
   gender dysphoria have dropped out of school, 42 per cent have been victims   
   of harassment, and 61 per cent have experienced an episode of depression.   
   One in five has attempted suicide.   
      
   Their conclusions are in line with those of British experts called in to   
   investigate London’s Tavistock clinic over its use of mass gender   
   reassignment surgery on minors.   
      
   David Bell. a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, found that a third   
   of the children consulted at the Tavistock suffered from autistic   
   disorders, and many were victims of family violence or had difficulty in   
   accepting or expressing homosexuality, yet they were rushed into gender   
   transition regardless.   
      
   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/23/french-les-republicains-   
   medical-report-sex-reassignment/   
      
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