The Federal Public Prosecution Service (MPF) established on Monday, 14, a procedure to investigate the legality of a resolution of the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) that amends the rules for performing medical procedures offered to the trans population, including children and adolescents.
The document prohibits the Pubertal block for children or trans tender variability children or adolescents. It also establishes that cross hormonization can only be started from 18 years – today, therapy can be done from 16 years.
The new resolution was approved on April 8, but has not yet been published in the Official Gazette and has not been in force. Sought the CFM did not comment on the measure or the action of the MPF. There is a press conference scheduled for this Wednesday, 16, in Brasilia, to address the subject.
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Mothers made complaint
“(The procedures) may seem like an unimportant thing for those who do not experience this experience itself, but they are very important, they can be a marker among the adolescent surviving or not. When the born genre characters come, many mental issues come to light and it is very complicated to experience it,” says Regiani Abreu, president of the Mothers Association for diversity.
The procedure was opened by the MPF from a complaint from the entity and a technical note of the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (Antra). Associations point out that trans young people have access to therapeutic procedures such as Puberal block and cross hormone supported by Resolution No. 2,265/2019, which remains valid.
Regional Attorney for Citizen Rights in Acre, Lucas Costa Almeida Dias, gave a period of 15 days for the CFM to provide information on the technical and legal grounds that underpinned the decision. He cites decisions of the Federal Supreme Court that go in the opposite direction and recalls that the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to consider transsexuality a disease.
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PUBERAL BLOCK AND CROSSIZED HORMONIZATION
Puberal blockade, as the name implies, blocks the evolution of puberty, a process responsible for genital development, hair growth and voice change, among other characteristics. The procedure is performed through normally monthly injections.
According to Andrea Hercowitz, pediatrician and hebiatric of the Mothers Association for diversity, the side effects of the blockade are limited. “People who use very long time tend to have a reduction in bone density, but when the hormones of cross hormone enter, the impact is reduced.”
“People who, since childhood, perceive themselves with a different genre from the designated at birth suffer a lot in puberty. Pubertal blockade greatly improves their mental health and offers more time to live with the possibility of being trans, without changing the body,” he adds.
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Cross hormone, on the other hand, is the use of hormones to develop physical characteristics of the genre with which the person identifies himself.
“Lack of access to Puberal blockade greatly increases the impact on mental health, which is already a matter of attention between the trans population,” warns Andrea about the CFM decision. “In addition to self-hormonization, which is often done wrong, with wrong medications-and then, yes, these people are put at risk.”
Sexual reassignment surgeries will only be allowed from 21 years. The resolution also states that trans people who maintain biological reproductive bodies should seek preventive or therapeutic medical care with biological sex specialists, and not according to gender identity.