Ben Amics demands the elimination of the Gender Identity Consultation of Son Espases for transphobia
Ben Amics denounces the "practical obligation" to go to psychology and that at the first session an informative leaflet from 2010 is handed out which considers trans people as a "disorder"
PalmaThe LGTBI rights organization Ben Amics has demanded this Thursday the closure of the Gender Identity Clinic at the Son Espases hospital for carrying out "systematic transphobic practices", as it has become "the main obstacle to beginning the medical transition".
In a statement released this Thursday, the entity pointed out that it has been collecting various testimonies from those who have passed through this unit, who coincide in pointing out that during the first visit they are given informed consent and a 2010 protocol from the endocrinology area that speaks of "risks" at the start of hormonization and "gender identity disorders".
The LGTBI organization has criticized the "pathologizing terminology" used by Son Espases, which also highlights expressions such as "male hormones" that can generate more "aggression," and also due to the fact that this unit treats "transsexuality as an illness".
"They are breaching the law against LGTBIphobia"
Ben Amics believes that the practices carried out in this unit breach the current law against LGTBIphobia, and has pointed out that the hospital uses "personality tests in psychological consultations and evaluations are carried out" in order to "detect and diagnose possible psychopathologies".
The entity has requested a meeting with the Ministry of Health to explain the "continued breaches" of the law and to request the closure of a unit that "has never been adapted to a non-pathologizing accompaniment perspective".
It has recalled that the association provides accompaniment and going through the Gender Identity Clinic is not mandatory "to get an appointment with Endocrinology".
Furthermore, Ben Amics has stated that trans people must be treated psychologically like any other person in the public health system, not "as if they had a pathology".