Without offering an opinion on this specific case you have to wonder just how many people have had their bodies mutilated to “correct” a cognitive problem only to discover that they have made a terrible mistake…
In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court, the man, 66, said psychiatrists Dr Trudy Kennedy and Dr Chris Grant had advised him that he was suffering from transsexualism, during consultations at Monash Medical Centre’s gender dysphoria clinic between 1993 and 1995.
He said the doctors had told him that gender reassignment surgery, entailing the removal of his penis and testicles and associated cosmetic and hormonal changes, would be appropriate treatment.
The man claimed the doctors had not correctly diagnosed him with transsexualism in line with recognised practice. He said he did not fit the criteria of transsexualism, including being convinced since childhood that he was a member of the opposite sex, finding his genitals disgusting and having a preoccupation with traditionally “female” activities.
He said the doctors had failed to investigate his history, which included being sexually abused by his mother between the ages of eight and 15.
I wrote about a similar case in the UK here and then, like now I am rather concerned by efforts to mutilate the body to match the mind rather than making real efforts to do anything to make the person learn to be happy in their own skin.
Cheers Comrades
Hey, with cases like this, ‘Victorian morals’ could come to have a very different meaning to what it has traditionally meant.