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=9400 (http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=D12DB0A8BEF8D81572490A0700BFD147?diaryId=9400)
Society 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).
The website allows no comments. So this drivel is out there, unchallenged.
=K