Elon Musk is against transitional surgery for minors

by time news

2023-04-26 01:40:30

the billionaire Elon Muskgift from Tesla and Twitter, criticized the wave of trans surgeries on young people. But it doesn’t stop there. According to a report published on Tuesday, the 25th, by Fox News, the businessman said that the doctors responsible for surgeries of this type in someone with a “tender age” should face life imprisonment.

The controversy refers especially to “laparoscopic vaginoplasty with intestinal graft”, also known as “vaginoplasty”, which is female sex reassignment surgery. After the surgical procedure, the trans woman no longer has the ability to produce sperm.

“Mature, consenting adults should do whatever they want as long as they don’t harm anyone else,” Musk said in response to a report on the website. Post Millenial, who reported a case of an 18-year-old transgender man who suffered multiple organ failure after undergoing a “vaginoplasty”. “But this child was too young for any kind of consent.”

The trans dilemma

Elon Musk was one of the founders of the company OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT | Photo: Disclosure / Space X

In the United States, where Elon Musk lives, majority is only reached at 21 years old. The rule is different from that verified in Brazil, where those aged 18 reach the age of majority.

“Every child goes through an identity crisis, but it is wrong to choose a permanent solution that sterilizes them for life before they can consent for themselves,” Musk wrote on Twitter.

The businessman added that people transgender die more by suicide. He also said that they have “an increased risk of suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalization”, based on a Swedish study published in February 2011. “I repeat my statement that any parent or doctor who does this should go to prison for life”, he stressed.

Read more: “A Gross Woman Parody,” article by Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, published in West Magazine Issue 160

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