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.