I have a very touching testimony in front of me that I would like to pass on.
Jean-René Jeffrey, 77, is a retired philosophy professor at Collège Maisonneuve.
As a child, he hated team sports.
He preferred playing with girls, putting on jewelry and pampering dolls.
youth
One day he saw hair appearing on his body. Wow! He secretly put on artificial breasts and wore dresses.
At the end of high school he wanted to study haute couture, “but I didn’t have the courage,” he writes.
It was a different time, we must not forget that.
He writes : “[…] I noticed that I was fascinated by the boys’ pulpy mouths and their assertive shapes. These new emotions, these unspeakable sensations in my lower abdomen, pleased me and at the same time made me feel guilty.”
When he left home for his post-secondary studies, he discovered a world where sports didn’t take up all the space. He is passionate about theater, cinema, music, etc.
Then one fine day he realized that his “secret garden had withered.” It had been “months,” he said, “since I imagined being a girl.” No more dresses and fake breasts.
“In short, without realizing it, I had become a boy who was comfortable being a boy, even if that boy discovered that he liked boys.”
“I was,” he writes, “one of those atypical boys, more female than male, confused about my gender.”
What would have happened to me now, he wonders, if the only valid option was to quickly assert his difference with a view to a later gender reassignment?
We start with puberty blockers and hormone therapy, often as a precursor to major, irreversible surgery.
However, Zucker, Cantor and other major researchers show that 80% of young people who say they were born the “wrong gender” will come to terms with it as they reach puberty.
But say that, ask for caution, for support before making decisions with serious consequences, and you will be called “transphobic” and also told that your attitude is driving many young people to suicide.
In professional circles and in large parts of the media space there is a uniform regime of thought that does not shy away from intimidating, threatening and denying inappropriate facts.
That’s enough
Am I exaggerating? On October 21, the sexologist and psychotherapist Nicole Desjardins explained on our pages the great discomfort of many professionals in the face of this ideology that trivializes and promotes “gender transition” and is falsely presented as a consensus by its supporters.
She was immediately threatened with complaints against her professional regulations. That has to stop.
I would like to thank Jean-René Jeffrey for allowing me to tell his story.
