No barriers have been put in place against gender ideology.
Critical reflections on the bill on puberty blockers and hormones.
The Council of Ministers has approved a bill introducing provisions for the “appropriate prescription” and “correct use” of puberty blockers and hormones in “gender transition” pathways for minors. The measure was presented by Health Minister Orazio Schillaci and Minister for Family, Birth and Equal Opportunities Maria Eugenia Roccella. The bill provides for provisions for “effective data monitoring” and the administration of drugs will be permitted following a “specific diagnosis” made by a multidisciplinary team and after psychological, psychotherapeutic and, if necessary, psychiatric treatment has already been carried out. All this will be subject to the approval of the Ethics Committee.
The measure also establishes a register for the prescription of drugs by the AIFA (Italian Medicines Agency) with subsequent “monitoring”. Finally, a technical committee will be set up to evaluate the AIFA’s six-monthly report. The Italian Medicines Agency will be responsible for this. Remembering the role of the AIFA during the pandemic narrative and its authorisations of mRNA gene serums, what can we possibly expect for triptorelin?
In fact, we are not moving away from the paradigm of producing a certain narrative that is emergency-based, medicalising, genetic or of another nature, relying for an assessment of the harmful consequences on those who are an integral part of the process of normalising certain therapies, the interests at stake and the underlying ideology: the companies that produce them, the research sectors that feed off these developments, the technical committees of experts and the various bioethical committees that endorse them, the professional associations that approve and support them, the regulatory bodies that authorise them, the whole world that finances and promotes them… in short, those who have every interest in their dissemination and in the transformations that will result, not only as harmful consequences, but also as consequences within society on how ethical principles will be perceived and considered and on the points of no return in the collapse of the last barriers defending the bodies and processes that sustain life.
For our part, we affirm: no “prescriptive appropriateness”, no “correct use”, no “monitoring”. Could one ever claim the correct use of a sterilising drug based on the great deception of a supposed “gender identity”? Triptorelin and hormones must be stopped in their administration and also in their use for research purposes.
Bodies must not be destroyed and experimented on. Drug treatments with triptorelin (used in America to chemically castrate paedophiles, it should be remembered) and subsequently with hormones of the opposite sex are in fact sterilisation.
It is no coincidence that there has been an increase in requests for cryopreservation of eggs and sperm before embarking on the transition process. Those who wish to become parents in the future will only be able to do so by resorting to artificial reproduction centres.
There are already enough studies demonstrating the irreversible damage caused by these drugs, even if they have not been taken into account by the National Bioethics Committee, which, when asked about the use of triptorelin in its opinion last November, stated that, given “the insufficient scientific data on the use of puberty blockers”, it is necessary to “proceed with trials of this medicine” and that there is “uncertainty about the risk/benefit ratio of puberty blocking with triptorelin”. But we are not surprised by this, as ethics is not part of the laboratory paradigm and, for some time now, various bioethical assessments have in fact served to advance all kinds of technological and scientific developments, even in areas that affect our bodies and the processes of life itself.
We recall the final report on transitions in minors by paediatrician Hilary Cass: a definitive condemnation of the affirmative approach that provides for the blocking of puberty at age 12 (or even 10), the administration of hormones of the opposite sex at age 16, and possible surgical mutilation at age 18. This report contributed to the closure, after numerous complaints, of the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic. We also recall the research by Lisa Littman, which shows that cases of “rapid onset gender dysphoria” regress when adolescents are removed from social media, where a real social contagion spreads.
With the assumptions of the Bioethics Committee’s opinion and the assumptions of this bill, will it be possible to stem the start of so-called transition pathways for minors? How can this bill be a solid barrier if the concepts of “gender identity”, “gender dysphoria” and “affirmative approach” are not questioned? Some say it is a limit to drift, but in the face of drift, setting a limit without eradicating its premises only means that over time this limit will inevitably shift. In the face of drift, we can only counter with a courageous ethical position that leaves no room for interpretation, slippage, reconfiguration or loopholes. No to puberty blockers, hormones and surgical mutilation for children and adolescents, because of their irreversible consequences and because of what they represent as a redesign of the human being.
In the field of life sciences, we have already seen where regulations, restrictions, borderline cases, exceptions, risk/benefit assessments and informed consent lead: to continuing in the direction we have taken. The point, which no one has the courage to address, is that the entire gender ideology system should be demolished, affirming forcefully that there is no such thing as “gender identity”, that there are no trans children and adolescents, that we are born male or female and that no one is born in the wrong body.
Gender ideology is a ramified system that modifies and reconfigures the perception of one’s body and reality. This ideology must be placed within the transhumanist advance of the demolition and reconfiguration of the human being and life. It leads to dissociation from the body, the spirit, nature and reality. It leads to the dissolution of sexual roots, artificial reproduction and genetic tinkering. It is part of the process of denying the human being as such, ready for genetic modification, brain implants, in vitro life and a laboratory world. It artificially reconfigures what will be considered man, woman, procreation, reality, nature, artificial, machine and human being1. Just as a genetic chimera cannot be sent back, the demolition of meaning and the subsequent demolition of bodies are designed to replace the present reality and become the only possible reality. Bodies are inviolable and unavailable; they are not living laboratories in the hands of transhumanist and eugenicist technocrats.
This bill makes it clear that, regardless of the colour of governments, we have simple internal variations of the same advancement of a techno-scientific, cybernetic and transhuman system, which also serve to create a false opposition between left and right in the usual game of roles, both progressive, Promethean and technocratic. The right pretends to oppose certain developments and then effectively normalises them, freeing them from their suspension phase and returning them in a permanent form. Simply from perhaps different points of view, the same plan, the same process is renewed, supported and consolidated, working on details and nuances to leave the main construct unchanged, made assimilable by the political ideology of the moment. A real alternative and a real critique must be sought elsewhere. Elsewhere than in political calculations and interests of all kinds and in the programmes of technocrats. Outside the clinics of “gender identity” and artificial reproduction and outside the laboratories of manipulation of living beings.
Silvia Guerini, 5 August 2025,
www.resistenzealnanomondo.org
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1 For further information:
Silvia Guerini, Dal corpo neutro al cyborg postumano (From the neutral body to the posthuman cyborg), Asterios editore, 2023.
Silvia Guerini, Costantino Ragusa (eds.), AA.VV. I figli della macchina. Biotecnologie, riproduzione artificiale, eugenetica (The children of the machine. Biotechnology, artificial reproduction, eugenics), Asterios editore, 2023.
Il mondo nuovo 2.0 (The New World 2.0), YouTube channel by Elisa Boscarol.
Janice Raymond, edited by Silvia Guerini, Una sfida al transgenderismo (A Challenge to Transgenderism), Acro-Polis edizioni, 2025.
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