Professor of psychiatry, doctor of medical sciences Alexander Kotsyubinsky sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to stop the process of entry into force of the law on the ban on gender reassignment, adopted on July 14 by the State Duma in the third reading.
According to the professor, this law poses a threat to the health and even life of “people suffering from a personality disorder – transgender (transsessuality)”.
“A feature of transgenderism is that this phenomenon, like many other personality disorders, is not amenable to “treatment” in the traditional sense of the word: “I took a pill – got better, went to a doctor’s consultation – and everything got better,” notes Alexander Kotsyubinsky . He explains that real, and not contrived, so-called nuclear transgenderness is “a lifelong personality trait” that “generates a painful experience for a person, starting from early childhood, of a state of rejection of his own body.”
According to the professor, “in order to minimize the suffering caused by this disorder, it is only possible to perform sex correction, including hormonal-surgical means.” “Of course, all this should take place after a full-fledged psychiatric examination and exclusively in adulthood, when a person has already passed all the stages of sexual and psychological self-identification,” the psychiatrist emphasizes.
In his opinion, the decision to ban gender reassignment is based on “a not entirely scientific understanding of the transgender phenomenon.” In this regard, the professor of psychiatry asks the president to do “everything in his power” so that the law does not come into force.
Source: Rosbalt
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