The Sermon of Hippocrates… Dangers of Early Medicalization of Minors Who Identify as Trans
- La Petite Sirène
- Jul 22
- 2 min read
January 16, 2025 – Hervé Maisonneuve – Journal and Integrity
It’s a good book—easy to read and well documented. With 256 pages, published by Les Éditions de l’Observatoire, the authors adopt a wise stance based on evidence. The afterword by Professor Didier Sicard is excellent.
The dangers of early medicalization of minors identifying as trans
This is a hot topic, with clashes between different schools of thought. The authors accurately describe practices such as prescribing hormones to block puberty, offering breast removal to young girls, and more… Prescriptions are often outside the approved indications for these drugs, administered to young people who are deeply distressed. The book includes striking testimonies that give insight into this suffering. The authors ask: how can so many doctors implement trans-affirmative ideology at the expense of young people, while claiming to act in their best interest? Why is France so slow to react to the excesses of this kind of medicine?
There are other examples. Rewinding history, the authors provide shocking cases—castration, lobotomy, conversion therapies—where medicine, driven by ideology, harmed women, children, or homosexuals in the name of doing good. Could this be happening again today?
On page 91: To date, no study has confirmed that the benefits of puberty blockers for this indication outweigh the drawbacks. Yet their prescription is increasing, without marketing authorization from the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM).
On page 135, there’s a fitting quote attributed to Sigmund Freud:
“Anyone who promises to free humanity from the difficulties of sex will be hailed as a hero, no matter how absurd his words may be.”
There are numerous references to various publications. I’ve read some, like the open observational study of the Dutch protocol in the New England Journal of Medicine, which doesn’t hold up (Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones). How can the NEJM become so activist? As often, the British are more pragmatic: they support Hilary Cass’s report, which recommends prescribing these hormones within a controlled framework, with clinical study protocols to provide solid evidence.
Alert: France’s HAS infiltrated by trans activists!
It was in June 2023 that Le Figaro alerted us to these upcoming recommendations—still unpublished as of June 2025! Clearly, the French High Authority for Health (HAS) appears to be infiltrated by activists and may produce guidelines not based on solid evidence, which would only add nonsense to an already delicate situation!
This book comes at the right time, as France faces strong opposition, with some doctors acting as activists. I’ve observed the dubious arguments of psychiatrists who want to prescribe these (reimbursed!) hormones without having the competence to provide proper endocrinological follow-up. In the U.S., there is a strong activist movement promoting the Dutch protocol, based more on intuition than on evidence.
Professor D. Sicard’s afterword concludes as follows (page 245):
“This book comes at a crucial moment to denounce a criminal medical activity not without medical and pharmaceutical financial interests, calling for awareness of the threat posed to the future of children and preteens—a future endangered by the liberalism of a society obsessed with non-discrimination.”
The transgender issue is even more serious in the U.S., where Trump-era policies have restricted access to healthcare…
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