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Brazil Lowers Minimum Age For Sex Change Surgery To 18

mymedicplus — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:40:50 +0000

Source: eurasiareview.com

Brazil’s Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) on Thursday (Jan. 9) issued a resolution changing the rules governing procedures directed at transgender people.

The new rules reduce the minimum age for gender reassignment surgery from 21 to 18 years old and stipulate that cross-sex hormone therapy must not be administered until the age of 16.

The move is believed to help monitor the health condition of trans people and train health agents whose job is to offer assistance to this segment of the population.

“This subject has been debated for 15 years. This resolution comes as an enhancement, a maturing of concepts. It deals mainly with the inclusion of the needs of these people in health care, encompassing treatments—like hormone treatment. It also bring surgical procedures up to date,” said CFM head Donizetti Giamberardino at a press conference.

“If no rules are made, you can end up causing a lot more harm and taking inappropriate attitudes, often with no scientific criteria,” he added.

Care for transgender individuals must be offered by a multidisciplinary team of doctors including a pediatrician, if the patient is younger than 18, a psychiatrist, an endocrinologist, a gynecologist, a urologist, a plastic surgeon, and more.

The text says that transgender children and adolescents must receive treatment from a medical team, with no hormone or surgical intervention (see below). An individual treatment plan must be adopted for any procedure.

The execution of surgical and hormone procedures in people diagnosed with some severe forms of psychotic disorders, personality disorders, mental retardation, and global developmental delay was banned.

Hormone therapy

The resolution also bans the use of hormone therapy procedures aimed at blocking hormones in transgender children and adolescents that have not yet reached puberty.

The procedure may be conducted following an evaluation by the medical team or when the child is entering puberty—a period that may vary from 8 to 13 years old for children with female biological sex, and 9 to 14 for children with male biological sex.

In such cases, after the assessment, patients may start taking a substance to inhibit the development of secondary sex characteristics associated with the gender the child or adolescent does not identify themselves as, like breasts, menstruation, a beard, or a deep voice.

Also, cross-sex hormone therapy—when blockers are coupled with hormone replacement—may be administered at 16 or above, experimentally.

From the age of 18 and above, the procedure now requires a special prescription by an endocrinologist, gynecologist, or urologist.

Sexual affirmation

In the resolution, CFM also recognizes identity expressions such as “trans man” and “trans woman,” as well as “travesti” and other phrases linked to gender diversity.

Psychiatrist Leonardo Luz, rapporteur for CFM’s resolution, says the move brings the de-pathologization of transsexuality to the center of the debate and introduces world nomenclature to talk about the subject.

Among the terms updated are “gender incongruence”—used to indicate that an individual’s experienced gender does not match the sex assigned at birth—and “sexual affirmation,” for the hormone or surgical procedure, rather than “sexual reassignment.”

“The council adopts the world nomenclature of gender incongruence and is making strides in care from childhood to adult life and attempts to encourage other professional to seek training and promote education through medical residency programs so that we can have more centers for people who need this kind of assistance,” he declared.

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Brazil lowers minimum age for sex change surgery to 18

mymedicplus — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 06:45:56 +0000

Source: sbignewsnetwork.com

Brazil’s Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) yesterday (Jan. 9) issued a resolution changing the rules governing procedures directed at transgender people.

The new rules reduce the minimum age for gender reassignment surgery from 21 to 18 years old and stipulate that cross-sex hormone therapy must not be administered until the age of 16.

The move is believed to help monitor the health condition of trans people and train health agents whose job is to offer assistance to this segment of the population.

“This subject has been debated for 15 years. This resolution comes as an enhancement, a maturing of concepts. It deals mainly with the inclusion of the needs of these people in health care, encompassing treatments-like hormone treatment. It also bring surgical procedures up to date,” said CFM head Donizetti Giamberardino at a press conference.

“If no rules are made, you can end up causing a lot more harm and taking inappropriate attitudes, often with no scientific criteria,” he added.

Hormone therapy

The resolution also bans the use of hormone therapy procedures aimed at blocking hormones in transgender children and adolescents that have not yet reached puberty.

The procedure may be conducted following an evaluation by the medical team or when the child is entering puberty-a period that may vary from 8 to 13 years old for children with female biological sex, and 9 to 14 for children with male biological sex.

Also, cross-sex hormone therapy-when blockers are coupled with hormone replacement-may be administered at 16 or above, experimentally.

From the age of 18 and above, the procedure now requires a special prescription by an endocrinologist, gynecologist, or urologist.

Sexual affirmation

In the resolution, CFM also recognizes identity expressions such as “trans man” and “trans woman,” as well as “travesti” and other phrases linked to gender diversity.

Among the terms updated are “gender incongruence”-used to indicate that an individual’s experienced gender does not match the sex assigned at birth-and “sexual affirmation,” for the hormone or surgical procedure, rather than “sexual reassignment.”

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South Carolina Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Ban Minors From Getting Sex Change Surgery, Hormone Therapy

mymedicplus — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:54:39 +0000

Source: theepochtimes.com

A newly proposed bill in South Carolina aims to ban anyone under 18 from getting sex-change surgery and also make it illegal for doctors to prescribe hormones to children.

Republican state Rep. Stewart Jones said he filed the bill in response to the case of 7-year-old James Younger in Texas.

The boy’s mother claims that he should become a girl and accused her ex-husband of child abuse for not treating the boy as a girl. Video footage showed the boy when he was 3 talking about how his mother had told him he was a girl. The mother said she wanted to have James undergo sex-change surgery in the future.

James’s father, Jeff Younger, won joint custody of James and his twin brother, Jude, in October, with the case drawing nationwide attention.

“My son doesn’t really know this conflict is going on,” Younger told The Epoch Times before the decision, which included a gag order. “James is trying to basically make his parents love him, and he’s doing whatever it takes for his parents to love him. He dresses as a girl because he wants his mother to love him. Jude is confronted with an ethical challenge as a young man. When he goes to his mother’s home, he is lying. He is struggling with how he is supposed to lie.”

Jones, the South Carolina lawmaker, told The Post and Courier that the push for transgender rights “has almost been weaponized.” The proposed law “is to protect children,” he added.

The law wouldn’t affect adults, Jones noted.

“For a child, it’s a whole different matter,” Jones said. “Somebody under 18, they can’t buy cigarettes and alcohol, and so they shouldn’t be able to have a sex change.”

If the bill, which has no co-sponsors, passes and a doctor provides a banned procedure, the doctor would be reviewed by the state’s Board of Medical Examiners and could lose their license.

The bill is one of several that have been introduced recently across the nation. Legislation banning sex-change surgeries and other associated treatments for minors has been introduced in Alaska, Illinois, and Texas.

A Georgia lawmaker said that she is also working on a bill that would make it a felony to perform sex-reassignment surgery on minor children, including vasectomy, castration, mastectomy, and other varieties of genital mutilation.

Georgia state Rep. Ginny Ehrhart, a Republican, told The Epoch Times her legislation would protect children from being subjected to irreversible procedures when they are young, but wouldn’t affect physicians working with adults who seek a sex change. Georgia law currently allows minors to receive surgery and prescription medicine if a parent consents.

“We’re talking about children that can’t get a tattoo or smoke a cigar or a cigarette in the state of Georgia, but can be castrated and get sterilized,” she said. “The removal of otherwise healthy or non-diseased body parts from minor children would also be prohibited.”

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