WARNING: The following column contains deeply graphic descriptions of surgical procedures that take place for anyone undergoing or about to undergo a “Gender Affirming” operation. You are advised to read this privately before sharing it with someone for whom the information may be useful or relevant.
Re-examining The Transgender Explosion
Nearly two years ago, I wrote a column on what I called the Transgender Explosion and wondered how it was that so many boys and girls, young men, and young women, seemed obsessed with the idea of “transitioning” to the opposite sex. I proffered that what we were witnessing has a lot in common with lobotomy, a procedure that enjoyed some prominence when it first appeared. From 1949 to 1952 – its heyday – some 50,000 pre-frontal lobotomies were performed. It was seen by many as a medical miracle used to “cure” difficult patients. By the mid 1960s, and after some 60,000 lobotomies, the procedure had been completely discredited.
It wasn’t, after all, as useful as it had first appeared.
The “procedure” (originally called a “leucotomy”) was invented by Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, who performed the very first such operation by drilling two holes in a patient’s skull and injecting pure alcohol through those holes into the frontal lobe of the patient’s brain, destroying tissue and nerves. Miraculously, the patient became submissive and quiet. Mr. Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his inventive technique for controlling mentally unsound patients.
A year later, Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman, an American physician, began using the procedure and soon modified it. His method was less time-consuming but just as effective. He would insert an ice pick into the inside crease between the eye and the bridge of the nose of a patient, and then slowly turn it as the device reached the brain, destroying tissues and nerves. His new take, which he labeled “lobotomy,” took ten minutes, as opposed to the one-hour or more Moniz’s “leucotomy” took.
Lobotomy became so popular that Dr. Freeman toured psychiatric hospitals demonstrating the remarkable results of the simple operation to crowds of astonished and gullible mental health professionals, ready and eager to try their hands at the procedure.
“Lobotomizing” Gender “Transition” Online and in School
What with the birth and popularity of social media, something similar has taken hold in the world of sexual instability, particularly among youngsters under 18. Soothing descriptions of “gender affirming care” and “gender transition surgery” are given space to promote the “transitioning” process and offering positive reinforcement, and encouragement to confused and vulnerable… let’s call them what they are: children.
And, in a relatively short time, “Gender Affirming Surgery” has become big business. According to a June 2019 report cited in the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine from the American Society for Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), sex-reassignment surgery was the highest growing surgery in 2016-2017.
My column delved into a little history of “gender dysphoria” but stopped short of describing the actual “gender transition” operation and what is involved.
I’m doing that now, for two reasons; 1) because it’s increasingly difficult to find a social-media site that offers anything other than positive and “transgender-affirming” psychological advice, and 2) because too many children and young adults have been mesmerized by these soothing appeals.
Once on this transgender road, it is extremely difficult to get off. Powerful drugs and hormones, along with regular and frequent doctor visits, become a part of everyday existence for anyone who’s chosen to “transition,” even non-surgically.
Records indicate that up to 25% of people who identify as transgender eventually opt for the complete surgical route; the following information outlines some of the details of that “route.”
Ask Your Doctor if the Surgical Route is Right for You!
The first thing one notices about so many of these gender-affirming websites is how soft the introductory language is. For example: “Transgender and intersex people follow many different paths to realize their gender expression (including chest reconstruction and facial feminization surgery),” reads a London hospital website that specializes in these kinds of surgeries. You’ll be advised that people in search of realizing their gender expression “may also decide that bottom surgery – also known as genital surgery, sex reassignment surgery (SR), or preferably, gender confirmation surgery (GCS) – is the right choice for them (italics added).”
The right choice?
Sounds like a harmless prescription medication commercial rather than what it really is: an irreversible, all-inclusive surgical procedure that will change your life forever and turn you into a pill-popping needle-injecting ward of a team of doctors. Your life henceforth will revolve around various infections, medicines, surgeries, and a plethora of doctor visits.
“Bottom Surgery” is necessary to “alleviate” Gender Dysphoria
Really?
You are reassuringly advised that “many individuals view transfeminine bottom surgery as a necessary step toward alleviating their gender dysphoria (italics added).”
Oh, by the way, “the possible risks of transfeminine bottom surgery include, but are not limited to, bleeding, infection, poor healing of incisions, hematoma, nerve injury, stenosis of the vagina, inadequate depth of the vagina, injury to the urinary tract, abnormal connections between the urethra and the skin, painful intercourse and anesthesia risks.”
No need to worry, as “the final results of transfeminine bottom surgery can help alleviate the feelings of gender dysphoria that some individuals may experience.”
There is more: “over time, the new vagina will settle into position and the scar lines will improve, although they'll never disappear completely. There are trade-offs, but most transwomen feel these are small compared to the large improvement in their quality of life and the ability to look and feel like a woman.”
Oh, and doctors do not remove a transgender woman’s prostate gland, and because they don’t, “careful monitoring of prostate health through exam is essential to your long-term health.”
And “if you experience shortness of breath, chest pains, or unusual heartbeats, seek medical attention immediately. Should any of these complications occur, you may require hospitalization and additional treatment.”
Ready for your “bottom surgery?”
Here goes:
You’ve already been fed a menu of female hormones and most likely have also had a number of surgical procedures to turn you from looking like a young man into looking like a young woman.
Now you are ready for the real thing!
Playing God with Surgical Tools
First, you’ll be placed on a gurney and pushed into the operating room; you’ll be completely sedated.
Then your testicles are removed, and the skin along the shaft of the penis is removed from the penile tissue and preserved to create the new vagina.
A small portion of the glans of the penis, along with the corresponding nerves and blood vessels, are dissected off the penile tissue and preserved to create the clitoris.
The remainder of the penile tissues are removed from the body. A space is subsequently created between the bladder and rectum. The skin of the penis that was preserved is inverted and placed into this space. A conformer is placed inside the new vagina to maintain the position of the skin. The urethra and preserved glans of the penis are placed in the female position. The scrotal skin is rearranged and used to create the labia majora.”
Easy, right?
No, but it’s too late to tell your team of doctors that this isn’t what you signed up for.
There is no turning back, but, hey, it may be “right for you.”
There are a number of additional surgical procedures that may also be “right for you.” They include thyroid cartilage reduction (Adam’s Apple), forehead reduction/contouring, jawline/chin contouring, rhinoplasty, voice surgery, and, well as they say in the commercials, lots more.
What has just happened to you is ugly and deforming but, again, you are warmly reassured that “Gender Confirmation Surgery of the Genitalia works by immediately correcting the gender you were assigned with at birth, thereby ensuring your body is perfectly aligned with your gender identity. For many transgender men, having a body that corresponds to the way they feel about themselves is incredibly profound.”
I guess it’s good to be God, I thought, but I just had a conversation with someone who told me no, these “doctors” aren’t playing God; they are doing the work of the Devil.
There is, of course, surgery for women who want to be men. For this, you’ll have to consider whether phalloplasty is right for you. The operation is repulsive and deforming.
If asked, I’ll send a description.
I’m neither a doctor nor a law enforcement officer and don’t claim to be one but introducing the concept of gender transitioning in a positive manner to a child under the age of 18 should be a criminal offense.
The best advice anyone could give to a gender-confused minor would be to tell him or her learn to live with what they’ve got.
Please.