(LifeSiteNews) — A report presented on June 25 by the United Nations’ special rapporteur on violence against women warns of emerging forms of sex-based violence, including medical procedures related to “gender transitions” in minors.
“Allowing children access to such procedures not only violates their right to safety, security and freedom from violence, but also disregards their human right to the highest standards of health and goes against their best interests,” the report says.
Titled “Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues,” the report acknowledges the “concerted international push to delink the definition of men and women from their biological sex,” which then essentially erases the legal definition of a woman.
According to the report, redefining legal categories of “man” and “woman” apart from biological sex may result in the erasure of women’s legal identity and protections.
“The erasure of sex as a distinct vector of analysis within law and policy obscures the unique vulnerabilities of females, increasing the risk of exploitation,” the report says.
The report associates this erasure with increased vulnerability to exploitation, particularly in the context of medical “transitions” among children.
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It also states that the “long-lasting and harmful consequences of social and medical transitioning of children, including girls, are being increasingly documented.”
Giorgio Mazzoli, director of UN advocacy at the Christian legal group ADF International, expressed his gratitude that the UN had recognized how the “erosion of legal clarity on sex” has led to the exploitation of young girls.
“The report underscores how the erosion of legal clarity around sex, an objective and immutable biological reality, has had devastating implications for the dignity, safety and rights of women and girls,” Mazzoli said.
The UN report also expounds on some of the specific risks associated with “gender reassignment” surgeries, noting “persistence or intensification of psychological distress; persistence of body dissatisfaction; infertility, early onset of the menopause and an increase in the risk of osteoporosis; sexual dysfunction; and loss of the ability to breastfeed in cases of breast mastectomy (to mention a few).”
The report comes amid an international campaign to condemn gender ideology as harmful, a stance recently highlighted in the Supreme Court case United States of America v. Skrmetti.
In this case, the court ruled in favor of Tennessee’s law, which protects minors from undergoing “gender transitions,” including surgeries, puberty blockers, or cross-sex hormone drugs.
The case also points out the number of countries that have already placed restrictive measures on these types of “transitions” based on their overwhelming danger to children, especially girls. Some of those countries include Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Hungary, and Slovakia.
