by Jean Mondoro, LifeSite News:
‘We’re right in the middle of an extraordinary medical atrocity,’ said Dr. Michael Egnor.
A pro-life pediatric surgeon and medical school professor recently spoke out against the ongoing trend of addressing gender dysphoria with hormonal and surgical interventions, calling the practices “a medical atrocity” and malpractice.
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Dr. Michael Egnor, a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the Stony Brook University’s medical school in New York, spoke with The Federalist editor Emily Jashinky during a podcast interview on Friday about the issue of so-called “gender transitions” in modern medicine
“Something I’ve come to realize with the growth of ‘gender affirming surgery’ and ‘gender affirming medical care’ is that we’re right in the middle of an extraordinary medical atrocity, and I really felt that I had to speak out,” Egnor said in the interview.
“I’m very pro-life, I very much oppose abortion, I think that’s a medical atrocity,” he added, going on to express similar views regarding the steps taken to “affirm” a person’s “gender identity.”
As a professor, the doctor explained that he discusses various medical experiments which occurred in the past and are now condemned, such as those conducted by Nazis.
“We point out that at the time, all of these atrocities were widely accepted in the medical community,” he said. “Eugenics was taught in practically all medical schools for many years.”
Egnor recalled that he tells medical students “We’re doing bad things that people will be talking about in 50 years and we don’t necessarily know what they are because we’re right in the middle of it.”
‘Gender transitions’ are medical malpractice, ‘very dangerous’
The doctor, who has also written an article for The Federalist on the same topic, stated that he would classify so-called “gender affirming care” as malpractice even though the technical definition of malpractice emphasizes medical practices which are not common. By this definition, he said, mutilation for the sake of a “gender identity” is easily not considered an ethical issue, due to how common it is today.
Egnor classified gender dysphoria as a “psychiatric illness” which should not be treated with hormonal or surgical intervention.
He compared gender-confused patients to those who, as a result of a psychiatric diagnosis, request amputations and other forms of damaging a healthy body. Doctors who agree to perform these surgeries would be imprisoned.
“We don’t do what mentally ill people want us to do just to satisfy their mental illness,” Egnor said. “The reality is that ‘trans men’ are women and ‘trans women’ are men, and we should help them try to deal with that.”
However, he added that the “proper treatment” for those suffering from gender dysphoria “is not mutilation or castration.”
Egnor described hormonal and surgical intervention as “very dangerous” and “very inappropriate.” Puberty blockers, he said, can cause a variety of negative side effects among children, including depression, suicidality, and unknown impacts to fertility later in life.
