Draft presented: Controversial guidelines for trans children – critics fear “medical scandal”

Tobias Banaschewski, medical director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents, also considers the new guidelines to be problematic. This is solely because it defines “treatment algorithms” that are not reliably backed by scientific findings: “We are not talking about adults here who can decide for themselves whether they want to have an operation, but about children and young people who do The body is still developing.” Many young people do not realize that a “transition” means a complete physical change and is often accompanied by serious problems such as incontinence or the loss of sexual functions or even infertility.