Ban therapy? – Transgender NGO accuses Nehammer of “abuse”.

There was much discussion in the run-up to and after the presentation of the “Austria Plan”, which is seen by political scientists and media experts as an unofficial campaign kick-off for the National Council elections, about the ÖVP’s tax reform plans and integration policy. Now the Chancellor’s party’s ‘child protection package’ is also being criticized.

ÖVP: “Hype around gender issues and ideologies”
In this context, the ÖVP speaks of a “current hype around gender issues and ideologies”, which pose a major challenge for minors. Because: “There is a risk that minors will be tempted to follow questionable therapies – with incalculable consequences for their future lives.” The Nehammer party wants to ban these “medically and ethically” controversial therapies for people under the age of 18. Unless it concerns a medically necessary procedure.

TransX chairman Eva Fels now accuses the chancellor of ‘not tackling the issue seriously’. She points to the fact that according to the current legal situation, only fully and partially reversible hormonal interventions are possible until the age of 18, and emphasizes: “The assumption that children, driven by ‘hype’, allow themselves to be ‘deceived’ into hormone treatments is absurd.

Transgender people: “Suicide is often the only way out”
Anyone who wants to ban hormonal treatments for minors knows nothing about the suffering “children undergo as their bodies develop into what they do not want to become, what they are not. Suicide often seems to be the only way out,” Fels continued. In a broadcast on Monday, she called on Nehammer’s party members to reject “this inhumane, transphobic policy.”