Irish Independent: Children aren't guinea pigs
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sun Feb 08, 2009 at 22:00:00 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=D12DB0A8BEF8D81572490A0700BFD147?diaryId=9400Society has a duty to protect its young, not subject them to scientific experiments, says Eilis O'Hanlon
I read an article from the Irish Independent today, and just had a s short series of tangential thoughts on the piece. So, humor me for quoting a large section of an article I read on the web, and then not writing much about what I quoted. Enh, it happens.
From the Irish Independent (bold emphasis added):
That's what also happened last week when a 16-year-old German boy became the youngest person ever to undergo a sex-change operation. Kim, formerly Tim, Petras had wanted to be a girl since the age of two. Now he is. Or rather, she is. It's the culmination of a process which began at the age of 12, when Kim persuaded doctors that she was really a girl, and was allowed to begin hormone replacement therapy...
The writer of the article quotes a specific clinic as acknowledging that "80 per cent of [children diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID) in Children] do not go on to become transsexuals." So, it sounds really, really bad to accomplish genital reconstruction surgery (GRS) on children diagnosed with GID (Child).
