Thread by @Bernard_Lane

"Overcoming the flesh: the transgender movement wants to legally abolish physical sex. Risks and side effects are kept silent" | Big-hit 1400-word report in Germany's influential centre-right newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine @faznet #GenderClinics 1/
zeitung.faz.net/faz/feuilleton…

"(The @FDP party & Greens) have presented drafts for a (gender) self-determination law that for long stretches seem as if they were written by the activists themselves. At age 14, everyone should be able to decide each year whether they are legally to be considered man or woman."

Germany is the latest country to launch a dissident LGB group in protest & alarm at what they see as the capture of establishment LGBT organisations by the radical project to topple biological sex & erect self-declared "gender identity" in its place.

https://twitter.com/Bernard_Lane/status/1356379590902509568?s=20

"There are now 15 LGB groups worldwide & 3 more forming," says Bev Jackson of the original @ALLIANCELGB. One driver is fear of backlash when people are alerted to the destabilising social changes pushed by Queer Theory-captured, govt-backed LGBT lobbies.

https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1354774018226855939?s=20

The @faznet article by Thomas Thiel portrays an activist report involving law firm Dentons & Queer lobby @IGLYO as an international template for the self-ID gender change project. Thiel characterises the ambition this way: "Gender transition should become a simple speech act".

Thiel: "Where (gender change involves) surgical and hormonal interventions, medical & legal hurdles are to be removed ... Minors should be able to change sex as early & spontaneously as possible -- without a medical report, an adjustment period (or) parental consent."

"... the concept of ‘gender identity’ (is) central to both (German draft laws), according to which gender assignment is solely a matter of feeling & gender can be completely changed through language."

"On the other hand, however, injunctions are made for surgical and hormonal treatments. The body comes back in through the back door - which has to be concealed as much as possible. The IGLYO paper openly states the goal of 'demedicalizing' the campaign ...

"Sex reassignment procedures are not to appear as painful & risky interventions followed by more surgery & lifelong hormone treatment, but as wish-fulfilment without physical & psychological consequences. Brochures distributed in schools prime children to switch gender ...

"Since 2013, the number of young people who feel they are in the wrong body or want to have their bodies medically changed has increased more than fivefold. Girls are particularly affected ...

" 'The expert observes (with dismay) the growing number of physically healthy adolescent girls, with age-role conflicts typical of puberty or body image disorders, who have not only their breasts amputated but also their uterus & ovaries removed at the age of 14, 15, 16'."

That comment is from child & adolescent psychiatrist Alexander Korte of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, who is troubled by the sudden appearance of teenage-onset gender dysphoria, a global trend chiefly affecting natal girls with a host of problems & difficulties.

In an April 2019 interview Dr Korte crystallised concerns about informed consent & misrepresentation of puberty blockers as a no-regrets option -- concerns amplified in 2020 by the English High Court ruling against the Tavistock GIDS clinic.

theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/keira…

Dr Korte says these drugs suppressing natural hormones deny children "experiences necessary for the formation of their identity, including socio-sexual formation, i.e. relationships. These are necessary experiences also for a homosexual 'coming out'."
gdworkinggroup.org/2019/11/15/int…

In February 2020 Dr Korte was a voice for caution at a public meeting in Berlin called by the German Ethics Council. His presentation (in German) -- ethikrat.org/fileadmin/PDF-…

The council issued a statement blending "gender-affirming" orthodoxy with admissions of risk & uncertainty. It cites the ethical challenge "to support minors on their way to their own gender identity &, at the same time, to protect them from – at times irreversible – harm".

"It is an aggravating factor that some decisions have to be made when the child’s abilities of reasoning & judgment are not yet fully developed. The reasons for the marked increase in the number ... seeking treatment & counselling, of whom a high proportion are female ...

"... are controversial & urgently require further clarification ... the long-term effects of medical treatments need to be further investigated ... "

Statement -- ethikrat.org/fileadmin/Publ…

Group concerned about treatment based on low-quality evidence -- segm.org

Meanwhile, the rise of groups such as @LGBAlliance_DE, insisting on *same-sex* attraction, is awkward for LGBTQ lobbies whose power & funding rest on the image of a progressive "rainbow community" all for the self-identified trans project & medicalised gender change for children.

"LGBTQ+ groups loathe & defame us because we disprove their narrative," says Bev Jackson. "We show it isn’t 'homophobic' to reject gender identity ideology & self-ID. In fact, many of us think the LGBTQ+ movement has itself become homophobic."
lgballiance.org.uk/myths/

Clinics following the medicalised "gender-affirming" model claim these hormonal drugs & surgeries save lives by improving the mental welfare of minors distressed by conflict between biological sex & inner gender identity.

WPATH statement --
wpath.org/media/cms/Docu…