In the “wrong” body – Bergens Tidende

Mom, you can say that I have a boy, because it looks like this. But in my heart I have a girl. ” It said “Lisa” to her mother when she was three years old, according to Saturday’s BT article about children with so-called “gender identity disorder”; an experience of being born in the wrong body.

In Norway psychosomatic department of the hospital treatment only public authority. Today the department has 466 patients, and the number of inquiries, according to the hospital doubled every year for the past five years. At the hospital, children are observed over time, and eventually offered puberty delaying treatment while people over 16 who qualify for a diagnosis of transsexualism are offered sex-change operation.

There are strong indications however that the public offer is rigid and inadequate .

A major criticism of the current treatment regime comes from Luca valley Espeseth, who has told his story in Norwegian documentary “Man without a penis.” “Old-fashioned gender stereo-types Raak us who seek this treatment,” he said in an interview with BT last year.

The view is supported by the Leader of the Queer Youth Line Halvorsrud, in the current BT. She points out that the hospital only offer a “package deal” with full sex change or nothing and mean hospital’s narrow view of gender means that many do not get help.

eZ advocates for the patients to a greater extent gets to decide what treatment they should have. Suggestion is worth listening to. Transmission Individuals should be guaranteed access to hormonal and surgical treatment without first having to obtain a psychiatric diagnosis. It is also essential to ensure proper follow-up of those who do not qualify for treatment.

Another unlucky page of the current trans-policy procedures to change legal gender.

Today required “real sex change”, ie removal of the uterus or testicles, to change the gender of person number. In the clinical setting authorities thus claim for sterilization. The expert group to study the criteria for change of sex in Norway will hopefully arrive at a less discriminatory solution when they put forward their report.

The main challenges in the management of gender identity is not of a formal nature.

Equality Center’s report “Sundry people” concludes that the challenges are mainly related to the lack of knowledge and understanding of the environment in general and health care in particular. Many young people with unclear gender identity struggle to be believed, according eZ.

Unfortunately transsexualism is still taboo. There is an important social mission to demystify gender identity that does not fit into the narrow and traditional understanding. In this respect, the media elements that TV2′s documentary “Born in the wrong body,” which premieres tonight, important contributions to the normalization and awareness.

As Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad wrote in BT on Saturday: “Our mission is to ensure that children who express gender atypical view, are faced with the same naturalness as those that are common. ” Here both parents, kindergartens, schools and front-line health-care system is a very important task.