A march was held on Saturday, to demand greater elective health and medical services be provided to Ireland’s transgender community.
The march was organised by ‘Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union’ and ‘Union of Students in Ireland’.
The demands were that the government pay for elective medical procedures such as Hormone Replacement Therapy, which essentially enables a person to mimic the opposite sex, in some ways, by exogenously introducing the hormones of the sex which they identify as, usually testosterone or oestrogen.
The protestors also demanded that no psychiatric diagnosis be necessary before an individual begins hormone replacement therapy or even a genital removal or manipulation surgery, commonly known as a “sex change” operation.
Many experts however, have stated that Transgenderism should be treated as a mental illness, such as body identity integrity disorder. The world’s most preeminent psychiatrist Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, has stated that promoting the acceptance and propagation of a delusion does a disservice to the individual suffering mental illness.
Dr. McHugh goes on to state the sex changes are a biological impossibility and painful and invasive surgery and a lifetime spent taking medication in order to simply appear as the opposite sex can have and does have a seriously detrimental effect quality of life.
Tragically, the suicide rate amongst the Transgender community is so high it can only be matched in human history by Concertation camp survivors, surgery and medication has not alleviated this tragic trend.