Gay British actor warns against sex change for children
British homosexual actor Rupert Everett has warned parents and clinicians against encouraging children who believe they should be the opposite sex. Speaking from his own experience as a boy, Everett said, “I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn’t then, because I’d be on hormones and I’d be a woman. After I was 15, I never wanted to be a woman again.” Everett’s comments support not only medical evidence but also the psychotherapeutic theories that got Toronto child psychologist Dr. Kenneth Zucker fired last December from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. They also go against the LGBT lobby that insists gender dysphoria is an inherent, medically neutral condition, not a mental illness. Everett made his comments to the Sunday Times , acknowledging that in his own childhood he wanted to be a girl and dressed as such all the time. Had the medical-therapeutic community’s current support for transgenderism prevailed then, along with its willi...