Dear Mr Eggen,
Last time I wrote to you about the ideas of Dr Leonard Sax concerning gender and transgender issues. I am continuing here with related thoughts.
You probably know about Dr Kenneth Zucker, one of the world's experts on children with gender dysphoria. He was fired from the directorship of The Gender Identity Clinic in Toronto in December of 2015. Dr Sax says this:
"The Canadian Association of Mental Health explained in a press release that Dr Zucker had been terminated because his approach was no longer "in step with the latest thinking". "The latest thinking" refers to what is now called "gender affirmation" an approach to gender dysphoria that might be described as "the customer is always right". If a 6 year old boy tells you that he is actually a girl, "gender affirmation" means that you change his name to a girl's name and send him to school in a dress without any careful investigation to determine what factors might underlie this child's gender dysphoria. "Gender affirmation" represents a triumph of ideology over reality."
"There is today a widespread assumption that if a boy says he is really a girl, or if a girl says she is really a boy, that child will be happier, healthier, and more fulfilled if the grown-ups facilitate a transition to the other sex. There is no long-term study that provides support for this assumption. Not one. And there is compelling evidence that this assumption is often inaccurate."
All of these thoughts are from the 2017 edition of his book, "Why Gender Matters".
What do you think about this, Mr Eggen?
Sincerely,
Catherine van Kampen
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