2023-10-28 04:00:00
I have before my eyes a very touching testimony that I would like to share.
Jean-René Jeffrey, 77, is a retired philosophy professor from Collège Maisonneuve.
As a child, he hated team sports.
He preferred to play with girls, put on jewelry, pamper dolls.
Adolescence
One day, he saw hairs appear on his body. Wow! In secret, he put on fake breasts and wore dresses.
At the end of high school, he wanted to learn haute couture, “but I didn’t dare,” he writes.
It was a different time, let’s not forget that.
He writes : “[…] I had noticed that the pulpiness of the boys’ mouths, as well as their assertive shapes, captivated me. These new emotions, these unspeakable sensations in my lower abdomen delighted me at the same time as they made me feel guilty.”
Leaving home for his post-secondary studies, he discovered a world where sport did not take up all the space. He throws himself with passion into theater, cinema, music, etc.
Then, one fine day, he realized that his “secret garden had withered.” It had been “months,” he said, “since I had imagined myself as a girl.” No more dresses and fake breasts.
“In short, without realizing it, I had become a boy who was comfortable being a boy, even if this boy discovered himself liking boys.”
“I was,” he writes, “one of those atypical boys, more feminine than masculine, confused in my gender.”
What would have happened to me now, he wonders, when the only valid option is to quickly assert one’s difference with a view to a subsequent sex change?
We start with puberty blockers and hormone therapy, often preludes to major, irreversible surgeries.
However, Zucker, Cantor and other eminent researchers demonstrate, he says, that 80% of young people who say they were born with the “wrong sex” will reconcile with it as they progress through adolescence.
But say that, plead for caution, for support before making decisions with serious consequences, and you will be called “transphobic”, in addition to telling you that your attitude is leading lots of young people to suicide.
A single regime of thought – which does not hesitate to intimidate, to threaten, to deny inappropriate facts – reigns in professional circles and in large sections of the media space.
That’s enough
Am I exaggerating? On October 21, in our pages, sexologist and psychotherapist Nicole Desjardins explained the immense discomfort felt by many professionals in the face of this ideology which trivializes and encourages “gender change”, falsely presented by its supporters as creating a consensus.
She was immediately threatened with complaints to her professional order. This must stop.
I thank Jean-René Jeffrey for consenting to my telling his story.
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