26 years ago, Nadia Brönimann decided to undergo gender reassignment – making her the most famous trans woman in Switzerland – and was the unofficial ambassador of the trans community for years. Then, this summer, she confessed to feeling “trapped in a female role model.” She describes the gender reassignment from back then as the wrong decision.
How is she doing almost three months after the confession? «Since I came out and no longer only identify as a woman, although physically I still am and will remain so for the time being, people have surprisingly listened to me more and more. “I’m happy about this because it’s important,” she told “SonntagsBlick”.
Brönimann would therefore like to raise the issue of gender reassignment at a young age with the general public. Young people should be “protected as best as possible from making bad decisions”. On November 7th, she will speak before the Grand Council of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, the report continues. “I demand that hormones for gender reassignment should not be prescribed to minors, and certainly not medical procedures.” In their eyes, young people have a right to pubertal development.
In Switzerland, says Brönimann, there is a lack of “thorough medical, mental and emotional evaluation”. Gender reassignment surgery is carried out far too early in this country. “Is it really about the urgent, permanent need for gender reassignment or are other psychological problems at the forefront?” Parents also need to be integrated into the process, as they know best whether their child had trans thoughts from a young age or not. “If this is the case, this path may be the right one,” Brönimann continued in “SonntagsBlick”. She also believes that you are not born in the wrong body. “It is family, upbringing, the environment, encounters and experiences that shape us.” This needs to be talked about at all levels.
Social media is also an important point in this debate. If young people are “constantly confirmed in their self-diagnosis of being trans” due to the algorithms, this is a danger. Brönimann: “Gender adjustments degenerate into a woke lifestyle.”
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