Society Feministes de Catalunya warns of the increase in minors who want to change their gender attended by public health
"As feminists we know that trans childhood does not exist, that it is a construction that is induced from schools or digital culture."
In this way, the president of Feministes de Catalunya, the doctor and professor of Social Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Silvia Carrasco
, wanted to warn of the risks detected by the entity regarding the application of various regulations approved in several Spanish autonomous communities "that force the introduction of unscientific ideas about sex change" in the classroom.
Feministes de Catalunya presented a report to Parliament in which it warned that the Servei Trànsit of the Institut Català de la Salut, specialized in caring for people with gender dysphoria by age and sex, has gone from caring mainly for adult men to adolescent girls between 2012 and 2020. Of the total number of people who have passed through this service in these eight years, a third were minors and two thirds were under 25 years of age, although the report highlights that "the incidence in minors has been increasing in time".
Currently, approximately 40% of the people served are eighteen years old or younger.
Silvia Carrasco points out that this report shows a "disproportionate and incomprehensible growth" and urged the political representatives of the Parliament to create an investigation commission, similar to that of other European countries such as the United Kingdom, Sweden or Finland, which have prohibited the treatment of under 25 years of age or have reintroduced that minors must follow a psychological and psychiatric evaluation before changing their sex.
The report indicates that minors suffer great pressure through social networks and digital culture, although in the case of Spain there is also incitement by the educational policies of various regional governments.
The entity speaks of 15 protocols, in which schools are "forced" to "introduce anti-scientific ideas about sex change that is completed with an induction to doubt one's own sexual and gender identity in childhood from the school system ".
transactivists
In addition, Feministes indicates that the schools "open the door to transactivist organizations that come to spread these ideas, which has happened before in other countries."
In this way, they consider that girls are more exposed to these ideas of sex change since they "flee from femininity, flee from an increasingly hostile environment, more full of sexual violence and that forces them to comply with unrealizable ideal patterns in relation to her body, her identity and the demands of what it means to be a woman in the 21st century".
In the book 'Coeducation kidnapped.
Feminist critique of the penetration of transgender ideas in education' (Ediciones Octaedro), coordinated by Dr. Silvia Carrasco and prepared together with researchers
Ana Hidalgo Urtiaga, Araceli Muñoz de Lacalle and Marina Pibernat Vila
, it is narrated that Andalusia, Catalonia, The Basque Country, Navarre, the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands and Galicia are the communities with "the highest level of regulatory deployment and mandatory implementation of trans educational laws and protocols."
Its protocols mark from the monitoring of compliance in the centers to the production of materials and teacher training.
They even updated the regulations a couple of years ago, the study indicates, since they went "from a terminology that still referred to students and "transsexual minors" to a predominance of transgender expression and, in many cases, simply "trans *”, with an asterisk that does not define anything in particular beyond subjective gender identity".
"The first educational protocol to "respect the gender identity freely determined by transsexual students" was approved in Andalusia in May 2015 under the PSOE government" and in 2021 the PP government and Ciudadanos enabled an application to "facilitate the students the recognition of gender identity”,
puberty blockers
Silvia Carrasco recalls that in the report presented in the Parliament there is evidence that in the Catalan Trànsit Service there are requests for sex change even from minors under two years of age and that it is unknown if these centers, scattered throughout Catalonia, are referred from paediatrics, services social or from schools, since they have not been informed.
In these Trànsit units, people are treated exclusively "in an endocrinological way", which I can suppose administering hormones to adolescents that block puberty, which can pose a "physical and psychological" risk for the young person.
From Feministes it is regretted that in this service the affirmative model is applied following the regional regulations from an equality law of 2007 that "regulated a medicolegal fiction in adult men, to whom it seemed that they had no more psychiatric and medical response to do a change in the registry mention of sex".
Thus, they consider that currently "we have passed to the imposition of the idea that there is trans childhood or trans people" when it is an "ideology that is not true".
For this reason, they assure that along with the educational protocols there are also the toilets that follow the same model by which a person can decide to change sex after self-examination, without any type of diagnosis or evaluation.
The feminists assure that the 'Trans Law' that the Government is preparing will "consolidate" these norms that the autonomous governments already apply and will be the "coup de grâce" to the change in model that they have noticed with their study that "more and more adolescent girls" They will want to change sex.
In addition, they consider that the situation could skyrocket after the pandemic, since with the confinement and the exposure of children and adolescents to social networks, the so-called "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" has skyrocketed: "There are many adolescents who, due to social contagion within of a classroom decide to feel like men from one day to the next".
More adolescents served
The Feminstes de Catalunya report based on the data provided by the Department of Health of the Generalitat on the Trànsit service highlights that between 2012 and 2020 the number of people served has increased by more than 667%.
Women represent 52% of all cases, a percentage that has been increasing significantly over the years, although until 2017 there were more men, although Salut has not recorded the sex of users for a few years.
In addition, they recall that while in the first years of the Servei Trànsit the predominant age group was over 30 years of age, in recent years the age groups of 15 to 24 years have skyrocketed, becoming the majority (among both add up to more than half of the total cases, 53.1%).
On the contrary, people over 30 years of age who accounted for more than 60% of the cases the first two years, while in 2020 they were only 16% of the new annual cases.
Of the total number of people served between 2012 and 2020, one third (32.9%) were minors and two thirds (63.7%) were under 25 years of age.
In 2019 and 2020, minors accounted for almost 40% of the new annual cases.
The average age of the people attended has decreased 12 years since the beginning of the series, from 34 to 22 years.
Among the conclusions of the report is that when the Servei Trànsit was created, it was responding to a phenomenon that mainly affected adult men.
However, this phenomenon affects more and more people, mainly women and minors, a situation similar to other European countries.
Feministas regrets that the information provided by Salut "is partial and does not allow further investigation into the determinants of these trends, or to understand the treatment trajectories of the people served. The difference between the figures from the different sources also suggests that the information does not is collecting rigorously and systematically".
For this reason, they demand an objective study from the Parliament.
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