President Donald Trump’s administration recently decided that the Constitution means absolutely nothing. No, that statement is not being made in reference to the way U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been managed, to the way Congress has been ignored or to any other slew of things that may strike a reader’s mind. Instead, it is in reference to the fact that the cowards in Trump’s administration have decided that the roughly 2,200 transgender individuals in federal prisons should be forced to undergo conversion therapy in an attempt to prove that gender dysphoria can be cured.
The program statement that the aforementioned cowards came up with lays out how the federal prison system will forcefully impose conversion therapy on all of its transgender inhabitants. It is well documented that gender dysphoria should be addressed through social and medical affirmations. But the program, guided by Trump’s executive order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” aims to remove all possible affirmations and, instead, force trans people to live in line with their “biological truth.”
Social transition is the easiest thing to allow trans people, people just call them their preferred name and let them wear what they want. Unfortunately, even something this simple is too much to provide, as inmates will “not receive social accommodations,” and if they already have any, the prison will “remove or confiscate the social accommodations.” Obviously, if social affirmations are off the table, medical care is not even a question.
They want to treat gender dysphoria by, first and foremost, not treating gender dysphoria. The paper states, “Identified medical and psychiatric comorbidities should be addressed before treatment for GD proceeds,” and that the comorbidities— that is, the other mental health conditions a patient may have, like depression or anxiety— must be “ruled out as the potential cause of GD” before direct treatment for gender dysphoria can take place. There has never been a documented case of someone having gender dysphoria because they are depressed. Nor has there ever been a documented case of a depressed person with gender dysphoria having their depression cured by ignoring the gender dysphoria.
If someone is determined to deserve treatment for their gender dysphoria, it is made clear that the federal government will not follow any recommended or proven treatment regimen. It is stated that inmates will not be given hormones and will be tapered off if they already have any; and inmates will not receive surgeries but will receive maintenance care if any surgeries have already happened. Treatment will instead prioritize psychotherapy with the goal of “managing the psychological distress/dysphoria.” But if the inmates are not allowed social transitions, there is only one possible way for it to be “managed”: if they are being told to just accept their birth sex and grow past the dysphoria.
This is conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is proven to cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and drastically increase suicidality, and it has been named a kind of torture by a United Nations expert.
Disturbingly, this whole idea of “torture prisoners until they stop saying they belong to a disliked minority” goes completely against the Nuremberg Code. This inhumane experiment being done by the sub-humans of Trump’s administration inarguably violates rules one, three, four, five, seven, nine and ten of the Nuremberg Code. It is cruel. It is hate-driven. It is done without consent. It laughs in the face of science. And it only goes to show that Trump is nothing more than a loser who will do anything he can to make minorities suffer to feel more powerful.
It is proven every single day that the fight for human rights is a fight against Trump.
