The state changed their gender – then they grew up and regretted it

Published 25 May 2024 at 07.44

Book. A sexual political sect consisting of experimental doctors, brainwashed parents and trans activists from the RFSL has caused a record number of children to change sex. Jonas De Geer has read Karin Mattisson and Carolina Jemsby's urgent book Ånger – a reportage from inside the transcare center about the children who became adults – and regretted it.

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Regrets – a report from inside trans care.

Authors: Karin Mattisson and Carolina Jemsby

Published: Mondial 2024

Number of pages: 234
< br>Price: SEK 263

They are young women in their 20s. They are breastless, have male voices and grow beards. They are neither transvestites nor suffer from any congenital hormonal disorder. But as children they have been led to believe that they need to change sex.

Within the so-called trans care, they have been prepared for several years, first with leading psychologists, then with strong hormones of various kinds to finally get breasts removed. It is called “gender confirmation” treatment.

Back then they were lost teenagers, if even that. Now, as adults, they regret it. Although it is in many ways late; their bodies have been internally destroyed and mutilated to the point that they will never be able to be restored. In addition, they are usually met with incomprehension or sheer reluctance from the healthcare system and other authorities.

It is this until now largely invisible group that has given the title to Ånger – a reportage from within trans care, by reporters Karin Mattisson and Carolina Jemsby. They have previously produced attention-grabbing reports on “transcare” for SVT's Uppdrag Granskning, and the present book is both a summary and follow-up of many years of work. Jemsby and Mattisson do not question the reasonableness of gender change, or “transition”, per se. The book is not an entry in any culture war.

That mental illness among young people has increased sharply in recent decades is widely known. The diagnoses (autism spectrum disorders, adhd, etc) change and overlap, but the fact that many young people today are lost and feel bad is beyond all doubt.

However, one diagnosis, gender dysphoria, the experience of being “born in the wrong sex”, stands out in several ways. Over the course of the decade, the number of cases of girls and young women aged 10 to 19 who were treated for gender dysphoria increased twentyfold in Sweden. A corresponding increase took place in Great Britain.

What is the reason for this? Well, nobody really knows, is the usual answer, even from those who are supposed to be experts in the field.

During this time, transsexualism was indeed glorified in the world's media: 2015 was named “the year of trans visibility” by Vogue, former track and field star Bruce Jenner, married into the Kardashian family, transformed himself into Caitlyn, I am Jazz premiered, a reality soap about the trans teenager Jazz Jennings, a 14-year-old boy who was supported by his parents in being a girl since he turned five, the actor Laverne Cox was named by People as the world's most beautiful woman.

So there has been no shortage of role models. It is probably also hardly a coincidence that this epidemic spread of gender dysphoria took off at the beginning of the last decade, with the arrival of the smartphone and social media.

This is roughly how it can happen, in short: A girl feels unwell, typically in connection with puberty. She suffers from the changes in her own body, doesn't feel like other girls. Maybe she even wishes she had been a guy. She and her parents eventually end up at Child and Youth Psychiatry, BUP, often via a school doctor or counsellor. There, people have often been quick to diagnose gender dysphoria, which was fashionable for a while, after which the girl is referred to their special clinic for children who are going to change sex, KID (gender incongruence and gender dysphoria). Once there, you are usually only “confirming” and the result is that the child first receives stop hormones to pause puberty and later the male sex hormone, testosterone, which must be taken out of life in order to function. Finally, the breasts are removed (mastectomy).

These interventions are neither risk-free nor without, in some cases, devastating side effects, but they are deemed necessary because the patient otherwise risks suicide. A claim that has been repeated in various variations by both the media and ministers, but which has proven to be completely unfounded. The Public Health Authority claimed in an investigation (SOU 2014:91) that 40 percent of all young people waiting for gender-correcting treatment tried to kill themselves, but neither the authority nor any of the doctors, lawyers or activists who contributed to the investigation have been able to answer from where the task will come.

Most parents, strangely enough, seem to agree to their children being prescribed something as drastic as gender reassignment fairly easily, but those who bother risk incurring a concern report to the social authorities, who may decide to confiscate their children and place them in a “trans-friendly ” home.

Additionally, many, if not most, of these children have other diagnoses. Not least autism is common, but it is often taken into account little or not at all. A researcher ponders:

“Could it be that children with autism see the world as more black and white? If the child, who does not feel like a typical girl, then concludes that he is instead a boy. Could it perhaps even be the case that children with a psychiatric problem look to trans care to get help to avoid being themselves? That they think their lives will be better if they just change their gender? In that case, a gigantic maltreatment is now taking place, where young people are subjected to an experiment, based on a self-diagnosis that the healthcare system unknowingly confirms, in the desire to be good and accepting.”

Not exactly a far-fetched concern, one might think, but nevertheless a forbidden line of thought for many in this very special business.

It is noticeable that the authors are really trying not to demonize those active in trans care and the circles around it, but it is hopeless, because what they describe is inevitably a sexual political sect, within which one is extremely sensitive to anything that can be suspected as criticism, where a “those who are not with us are against us” mentality prevails, where one does not shy away from obscuring inconvenient facts, lying if necessary and in various ways intimidating inconvenient people into silence. What emerges is an unsightly mix of doctors who are driven not only by professional desire for experimentation, but also by ideological motives, i.e. activists in white coats. There are politically correct parents from environments where it is prestigious to have a trans child (such exist) and in the middle of it all the gender Bolsheviks in the RFSL who seem to be omnipresent in these contexts, whether as a referral body, whether as lecturers, whether as support and advisors to impatient parents.

A parent who is blessed in spirit says: “What is happening now is the revolution of our time. The gender revolution! First came the workers' revolution, then the women's, and now the gender; the unnatural division into girls and boys, women and men, which has existed until now must be dissolved. No one should have to be forced into a collective gender identity anymore.”

That RFSL commits itself so strongly to “transgenders” is something relatively new. They only became one of the association's target groups in 2001. A couple, three decades earlier, leading figures in the RFSL had tried to spearhead pedophilia, but the climate was too unfavorable for that in the 80s, so those initiatives were put on hold. After the turn of the millennium, the time was not yet ripe for children's right to sex with adults, but on the other hand for their right to change gender. Now children with mental problems could be used at least for sexual political purposes.

In recent years, more and more people have begun to question the reasonableness of carrying out as many and as early sex changes as possible. More and more are testifying about how they have had their bodies and their lives destroyed. Several endocrinologists and psychiatrists have turned a deaf ear and become more restrictive, but the adepts of the trans cult ignore it and carry on as if nothing had happened and they still have considerable influence in the corridors of power. Last month, the Riksdag voted through a proposal to lower the age for changing legal gender from 18 to 16. The moderates voted with the left bloc, even though the government and cooperation parties KD and SD were against it and despite the fact that the proposal was disapproved by both the party's voters and the majority of the Riksdag group. The party whip, however, was harsh on this issue and only one member dared to vote against the party line when it came to this.

The party's representatives believed that it was petty to suggest to a vulnerable group such a small change that could make such an enormous difference in their lives. But changing legal gender can solidify an incorrect gender identity in a 16-year-old, which can have profoundly tragic consequences after a few years. An awful lot happens in most people's development between the ages of 16 and 18.

We are reminded of research that shows that 80 percent of all minors who identify as trans end it after puberty. They eventually land in their biological gender if left alone. But of those given stop hormones, almost all later undergo an irreversible sex change. Instead of helping children who are unwell, people in “trans care” have gone in with satanic enthusiasm to confirm an incorrect gender identity, in order to be able to perform interventions that will make it irreversible.

History's verdict on those responsible teaches don't be gracious.

Remorse is hard to lay down. It is an easy-to-read book about a heavy, but urgent matter. It should be mandatory reading for anyone working with children and young people and definitely for all children and parents who come into contact with BUP.

JONAS DE GEER

Jonas De Geer is a freelance writer