Two years ago, Giorgia Meloni was unknowingly applauded from afar by many Portuguese parents when she voted "no" to the election of António Costa as President of the European Council. Meloni was the only European leader to vote against, and the former Portuguese Socialist Prime Minister ended up winning the office he still holds today. The reason these parents have such contempt for Costa is legitimate: their children have been destroyed by the trans industry created by the Gender Self-Determination Law No. 38 passed by António Costa in 2018., which allows adults to change their name and gender without any psychiatric evaluation and minors between 16 and 18 with the consent of legal representatives and a report certifying their capacity to decide, not a diagnosis. Today there are 120 minors undergoing drug treatment.
Today that law, wanted by the socialist government led by António Costa, in coalition with the far left, and which puts on the same level a girl who developed body dysmorphia because she was sexually abused, a fetishist who wants to enter women's spaces, or an opportunist with a criminal record who wants to escape the prison intended for men is being re-evaluated by the center-right and right-wing parties (PSD, CDS and Chega). The aim is to reintroduce the obligation of psychiatric evaluationand discontinue the administration of blockers and hormone therapy in minors.
And in the midst of this process, Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner, decided to interfere and ask the Portuguese state to maintain it, even though it has harmed children and young people, especially girls and women. In Portugal there are six men in women's prisons, some of them with prior convictions for rape.
Why does Türk find all this tolerable? The intervention came at the request of MEP Catarina Martins, of the far-left Bloco de Esquerda party, for whom "trans women are women," as she recently reaffirmed in a meeting in Brussels with Brazilian transsexual Erika Hilton.
But what weight does Türk's request have?
1. Accepting his appeal would be a very serious interference by the UN in Portugal's political dynamics.
2. The current law on gender self-determination WITHOUT psychiatric evaluation, which Türk claims is reasonable, exists in only a third of EU countries. The remaining two-thirds have passed laws in line with scientific evidence, thus requiring mandatory psychiatric evaluation. As it should be.
3. Türk's recommendation, which cites WHO guidelines, is not in line with the UN's own recommendations. Two years ago, another UN report revealed the WHO's complete lack of impartiality on issues affecting the transgender community. This is because, when it developed its guidelines, the vast majority of the 20 members of the WHO panel belonged (or still belong) to LGBT organizations (such as ILGA Europe) and the highly controversial WPATH, which has been implicated in numerous scandals and is currently being sued in the United States.
The real risk therefore is not the UN itself but that an elected majority bow to the request of a lobby trampling on women's rights and the protection of minors.
Marisa Antunes
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