Gender language hides the horror

The disturbing reality of gender interventions is hidden by benign sounding words

Why are we hiding the disturbing reality of gender interventions with benign sounding words, like ‘affirmation’, ‘top surgery’, ‘bottom surgery’, ‘blockers’ and ‘HRT’?

Is this to maintain the fantasy of sex change over reality of the loss of sex organs?

Exogenous hormones side effects or ‘HRT’?

‘Gender affirming medications’, ‘gender affirming hormones’, or ‘hormone replacement therapy’ (HRT)? In fact these are ‘cross sex’ or, more accurately, ‘wrong sex hormones’.

Should we instead call them ‘harmful exogenous hormones’ or ‘toxic chemicals’, given the harms they cause in the wrong sex body?

The NHS is reviewing their use in under 18s, but this is not enough. Read CAN-SG's blog here.

Puberty disrupters or ‘puberty blockers’?

What about puberty blockers? Are these to give pause, giving ‘time to think’?

Or are they poisons that prevent the child’s brain from developing, preventing the very process that helps a child grow out of their sex confusion?

These interventions prevent a child’s brain from developing, stopping the child from going through the “I hate you mum” stage of brain reorganisation which is needed for the child to develop appreciation of the separation of reality from fantasy, that they are their sex and this cannot change.

Fetish or ‘feminisation’?

Spironolactone is a diuretic used to treat heart failure and liver cirrhosis. It has a side effect of causing gynaecomastia – growth of breast tissue – in men and reduced libido through an antiandrogen effect, which is suppression of testosterone levels. It has also been used to treat women with acne.

Giving males spironolactone as a ‘feminisation’ treatment is a way of pretending to a boy or young man that they are being treated for gender dysphoria. In fact it is just a way to give a male what he wants – some breasts of his own to play with.

It does not change his sex.

Breast amputation or ‘top surgery’?

‘Top surgery’ is a phrase which minimises the impact of surgery for women who identify as ‘transmen’ - a bilateral mastectomy, which is the amputation of their healthy breasts. This major surgical intervention strips the nerves from a woman’s chest to leave their skin lacking in physical sensation. It removes both the sexual function and breastfeeding function from women, who often have this done in their teens or twenties.

It can be compared to the harmful practice of breast binding or breast ironing, which happens in some parts of the world to slow down the appearances of puberty in young women to prevent male predation. See our article here on breast binding.

FGM or ‘bottom surgery’?

‘Phalloplasty’ is surgery to create the appearance of a penis in a woman who identifies as a ‘trans man’. Its meaning is ‘the act of forming a penis’ but this is a lie. A skin tube, grafted from skin elsewhere on the body, often their arm, is attached to the pubis bone. This graft often fails and the person will not be able to urinate standing up nor experience sexual sensation.

If the skin graft survives, the surgeon may install a pump to mimic an erection, but there is no sensation and it offers no chance of normal adult sexual function and no ability to orgasm.

When a girl in Africa has her clitoris removed or her vulva sewn up we call it FGM - female genital mutilation. This is illegal. Anyone performing or facilitating such abuse in the UK faces prison.

Why is it legal to remove the uterus and vagina of a young woman the UK, under the guise of ‘gender medicine’, before she might even have ever had sex? Why is this condoned by NHS gender clinics rather than condemned as FGM?

Castration and penile amputation or ‘bottom surgery’?

‘Bottom surgery’ for males is referred to as ‘vaginoplasty’ – but this surgery does not create a vagina.

It is surgical castration - the removal of the testicles - and penile amputation.

A blind-ending hole is created in the perineum for the purpose of penetration. This open wound needs regular dilation otherwise the body will heal up and the hole will close. It will also affect continence – the ability to control their own bladder or bowel.

This opening will have little sexual function, and could in fact tear during sex. Is this in fact male genital mutilation?

Is it time to use the term Trans Genital Mutilation?

See the article by Dr Joseph Chrysostom on the medical deception of gender reassignment.

The latest figures suggest that around 100 women underwent some sort of genital surgery in the UK in 2023. There were 875 men who had their genitals amputated.

Should we use accurate language to describe this as genital mutilation? Many argue that we should, as it is the destruction of adult sexual function.

This surgery is being carried out on the bodies of healthy people, performed by NHS surgeons in the UK.

This must STOP.

Support for detransitioned people

What can we do to support those people who have been through ‘gender reassignment surgery’, who consented to surgery without realising what they were consenting to, but now realise they could never change sex? Surgical reconstruction is not possible for most detransitioners and they can be left with a desexed body.

The NHS must now step up to provide those people who underwent this mutilation with the physical and mental support they need to learn to come to terms with what has happened to them.

These surgical procedures must be made illegal.

Now