One of the Darkest Chapters in Medicine

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Victory Girls
Marta Hernandez
Nov. 20, 2018

I was having dinner with a childhood friend (also an immigrant) a few weeks ago. She’s a female and about as liberal a person that I know. She was telling me about her stepson, who decided a couple of years ago that he was trans, and being a good progressive couple, she and her husband immediately sought to get the boy some help. Thankfully that help did not come in the form of gender reassignment surgery – something that British psychiatrist Bob Winters has recently described as “one of the darkest chapters in medicine.”

My friend doesn’t remember the dark days of our childhood because she and her family escaped when she was tiny, so she and I have very different perspectives on life. This is probably why she is very much progressive – she doesn’t remember our childhood in our nation of birth, or the hell we went through trying to escape that socialist shithole. She and I have a great relationship, and we can actually talk politics without wanting to throat punch one another, but I will admit that when she was telling me about her stepson, I feared they would be making a decision that would destroy that child’s life.

So when I read Dr. Winters’ column, I thought about this poor kid, and I was grateful that my friend and her husband’s reaction wasn’t to snip off the boy’s giblets, but rather to get him into counseling.

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