Berlin Authorities Endorse Forced Psychiatric Treatment of a Transsexual Girl
A German child, who has been living as a girl since she started school nearly seven years ago, is to be committed to the Charité University hospital in Berlin – where she will be “cured” of her transsexualism by being encouraged to take up boyish pursuits. This follows a ruling by the Berlin Court of Appeal that Alex Kaminski (name changed) may be separated from her mother, with whom she now lives, and forcibly moved to a psychiatric ward in the Charité. The court has agreed with the view of a nurse in the Berlin Youth Office and Klaus Beier, the chief medical officer at the Charité that despite living as a girl for many years, Alex’ transsexuality has merely been induced by her mother. Following treatment at the Charité, where behaviours that more closely match behaviours appropriate to the biological sex of the child will be encouraged, Alex would
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Themes
- 1Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life56%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community42%
- 4Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life40%
- 5Sex and gender classificationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict28%
- 6Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community14%
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- 1100%
- 296%
- 312%
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- Transgender identity and history288
- Community and organizing174
- Law and civil rights147
- Healthcare and medicine88
- Culture, identity, and representation87
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization87
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse86
- Family and relationships85
- History, archives, and memory74
- Science, evidence, and expertise66
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