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21 January 2023
Insights
Girls, Gender identity
The debate on puberty blockers also opens in Italy - finally!
Breaking the silence is the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, which is calling for an open scientific debate on these treatments, which it defines as 'experimental', not supported by adequate studies and at great ethical risk because they predetermine the fate of girls and boys
Much later than in the Great North of Europe, Great Britain, Australia, and some US states - which have abruptly put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers as a 'therapy' for girls and boys with gender non-conforming behaviour - Italy too is finally breaking its silence with a letter addressed to the government by the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, which calls for caution and the opening of a public scientific discussion. Below we reproduce interviews conducted by Marina Terragni for Il Foglio and [...].
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10 January 2022
Insights
Girls, Gender identity
Unicorns and other 'fabulous' creatures: how to make little girls hate their female bodies
Winged horses, rainbows, the pink-blue of trans flags: the same symbols shared by the LGBT world and childhood. Especially by young girls, led to believe that freedom means becoming like those imaginary and neutral creatures, escaping a female "destiny" represented as suffering and impossibility of choice.
For a long time now we have seen symbols and images spreading among girls and boys that unequivocally refer to the common Pride symbolism. Until a couple of decades ago, the Rainbow flag was the planetary symbol of Peace, peace between men and gods in both the biblical and classical worlds. Similarly, the Unicorn, a fantastic animal of the medieval bestiaries, symbol of Chastity, has found new life thanks to fantasy novels and films, and is spreading among [...]
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