ScotPAG would like to help the Care Inspectorate out. We believe that safeguarding children has always been essential for our public services, and to aid the Care Inspectorate in its comprehension of role and function, we will keep things simple and understandable, indeed at a level that even a five year old could grasp.

In my view, the widespread acceptance of this ideology among impressionable adolescents and young adults has largely been driven by the medical profession’s misleading suggestion that it is possible to change a person’s sex and to surgically construct the genitalia of the opposite sex. Schools and social media promoting gender ideology have contributed by teaching the idea that an individual can be born in the wrong body and that it is possible to change sex.

The third part of our interview with Dr Chrysostom highlights what can only be described as a complete dereliction of duty of care and professional accountability on the part of the medical profession. In addition, this blog provides clear evidence of the failure of the medical profession to explain why vulnerable children and young adults with a range of traumas and psychological conditions, are being treated with life-changing surgeries for their psychological issues.

Q: What are the harms caused by surgery, including phalloplasty, for young women? A: These vulnerable young adolescents and adults are being misled. They are consenting to surgery under the false belief that they will be provided with a functional penis. The very name of the procedure, "phalloplasty" seems designed to perpetuate this illusion.

When did you start to become concerned about ‘gender affirming care’ and what alerted you to this issue? A: For more than a year, I came across parents of patients who were in the process of being referred to gender clinics for so called “’gender affirming care.” ... "Many of these youth, in my opinion, are encouraged to believe through social media indoctrination, that they are born in the wrong body. There is no scientific basis for such an ideology

What is interesting in the 'gender dysphoria' situation is that the dynamics of urgency (or more accurately anxiety), and the fixation on the sexed body are recognisable at all levels. They appear in the urgency of parents presenting their justified concerns to the medical profession, and at schools where the pressure to act, and to get others to affirm naive and troubling fantasies, is met with compliance and further preoccupation with questions of changing the sexed body.