Does Transsexuality Destroy or Improve Children’s Lives?

Fallon Fox, a transgender woman who was born male and underwent sex reassignment surgery in 2013, has sparked a fierce debate in the mixed martial arts (MMA) world after she fractured the skull of her female opponent, Tamikka Brents, in a brutal match that lasted less than two minutes.

Brents, who needed seven stitches and suffered a concussion, said she had never faced such strength in her career. “I don’t know if it’s because she was born a man or not, but I do know that I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life,” Brents said.

Fox’s revelation of her transgender identity in 2013, after she had already competed in several women’s MMA matches, raised questions about the fairness and safety of allowing transgender athletes to compete against cisgender women who identify with their biological sex.

The California Sports Commission, which oversees MMA events in the state, decided to let Fox continue in the women’s league despite the objections of some critics who argued that Fox had an unfair advantage over her opponents due to her male physiology.

Ashley McGuire, an American writer and commentator, said that Fox’s case was an example of how transgender ideology was undermining the reality of biological sex and harming women’s sports.

“Twenty years ago, if a man hit a woman so hard that he sent her to the hospital, he’d be in prison. Now he can get paid for it,” McGuire said.

McGuire’s view is echoed by some experts who challenge the notion that gender identity is separate from biological sex and that transgender people can change their sex through surgery and hormones.

 

Gender Propaganda

Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, said that “the idea that biological sex and gender identity are independent is clearly absurd. 99.7 percent of human beings have their biological sex and gender identity aligned.”

A 2016 study published in The New Atlantis, a journal of technology and society, also found that there was no scientific evidence to support the claim that gender identity was independent of biological sex.

The study concluded that the hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex—that a person might be “a man trapped in a woman’s body” or “a woman trapped in a man’s body”—is not supported by scientific evidence.

However, transgender activists and supporters maintain that gender identity is a personal and subjective experience that should be respected and affirmed by society.

They argue that transgender people have the right to participate in sports and other activities according to their gender identity, regardless of their biological sex.

They also claim that transgender athletes do not have an inherent advantage over cisgender athletes, and that any differences in performance can be attributed to factors such as training, nutrition, and skill.

Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and a critic of transgenderism, said that this argument was based on a false premise and that encouraging people to undergo sex reassignment surgery was actually harming them instead of helping them.

“Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder,” McHugh said.

He suggested that transgender people should be treated with psychotherapy rather than surgery.

The controversy over Fox’s case highlights the ongoing clash between science and ideology over the issue of gender identity and sex reassignment surgery.

While some people see transgenderism as a progressive and enlightened movement that promotes diversity and inclusion, others see it as a dangerous and irrational phenomenon that denies the facts of nature and threatens the well-being of society.

 

Children Mutilation

Many children who experience gender dysphoria, a condition where they feel uncomfortable with their assigned sex, may grow out of it as they mature, according to some studies.

However, some parents and activists are pushing for medical interventions, such as hormone blockers and surgery, that could have irreversible consequences for their children’s health and well-being.

Two studies, one from Vanderbilt University in the United States and another from Portman Hospital in Britain, found that 70 to 80 percent of children who reported gender dysphoria and did not receive medical or surgical treatment no longer felt that way over time.

This suggests that their problem was a temporary psychological issue that needed counseling and support, not affirmation and encouragement.

Michelle Cretella, an American pediatrician, shared a case study of a boy named Andy, who was between 3 and 5 years old when he started playing with girls’ toys and saying he was a girl.

Cretella did not validate his claim but advised his mother to take him to a psychiatrist. It turned out that Andy’s sister had special needs and required more attention from his parents, which made him feel unloved and unwanted as a boy. With family and psychological therapy, Andy’s condition improved and he abandoned his desire to be a girl.

But in the current climate of gender ideology, Cretella said, Andy’s parents would have heard a different message.

They would have been told that this was Andy’s true identity and personal choice and that they had to change his name and ensure everyone treated him as a girl. They would have also been warned that if they did not do so, Andy would commit suicide.

Moreover, they would have been offered drugs to block his puberty and prepare him for sex reassignment surgery, despite the harm of these interventions.

This approach has led many parents to consent to sex change operations for their children, even when they may not have a genuine case of gender dysphoria.

A study by Kenneth Zucker at the University of Toronto in Canada found that only 3 out of 25 girls who underwent sex change during their childhood actually had gender dysphoria, while the rest were influenced by other factors.

Zucker, who was a respected expert in his field, was fired from his job, and his clinic was shut down by the Canadian government in 2015.

 

Mental Disorder

Some experts have challenged the idea that sex change is a valid and effective solution for people who identify as transgender, arguing that it is a mental disorder that requires psychological intervention rather than surgical alteration.

They cite scientific evidence that shows that sex change operations do not improve the mental health of transgender people but rather increase their risk of suicide and other psychological problems.

These experts challenge the prevailing narrative that sex change is a matter of personal choice and self-expression, and call for more research and dialogue on the nature and causes of transgenderism.

They also urge for more compassion and support for transgender people, who they believe are suffering from a serious mental condition that needs to be addressed.

In his interview with Al-Estiklal, Sherif Salem, a Moroccan psychiatrist, claimed that the media and decision-makers do not provide any service to either the people or the transgender people when they deal with their confusion as a right that should be defended rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment, and prevention.

Salem refers to a study conducted by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which followed 324 people who underwent sex change operations for 30 years.

“The study revealed that starting from 10 years after the sex change operation, transgender people began to experience mental difficulties,” Salem said.

“And most shockingly, the suicide rates increased 19 times among the transgender sample compared to the suicide rates among non-transgender people,” he added.

“Sex change operations are not as radical as people imagine in the first place because they do not change the biological reality of one’s sex.”

Salem noted: “Amputating body parts, feminizing behaviors, or planting feminine appearances—no matter what—all that do not make a man a woman.”

He concluded by saying: “Sex change does not change men into women or vice versa, but rather makes men feminine and women masculine.”