On Tuesday, 23 July, the Parliamentary Committee on Petitions examined a draft law designed by the Ordo Iuris Institute on the prohibition of transit, which is an operation alleged "sex change" for minors, incapacitated and suffering from intellectual disorders preventing informed consent.
During the committee meeting, the Institute was represented by a associate of the Management Board of Ordo Iuris – Adw. Rafał Dorosiński, who is besides co-author of the project, submitted in the Sejm over a year ago, in July 2023.
After the debate, the task was unanimously submitted for further action in the committee on substantive issues – the wellness Committee and the Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
On Tuesday, 23 July 2024, at 1 p.m., the Parliamentary Committee on Petitions examined positively the bill on the amendment of the Act on Doctors and Dentists, registered on 8 August 2023. This task was submitted at the Sejm on 12 July 2023 by the Ordo Iuris Legal Culture Institute Foundation, under the motto "Stop kid mutilation".
After a more than average dimension of time for this body, due to the fact that half an hr of debate, the task was unanimously submitted to further work in the committee on substantive issues – the wellness Committee and the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, where it will be conducted with the position of a committee project, i.e. a cross-party one.
The draft provides for the prohibition of ‘transition’, i.e. the operation of the alleged ‘sex change’ for minors, incapacitated or suffering from intellectual disorders preventing informed consent – by adding a fresh Article 34a to the Act on Doctor and Dentist Competition and adding paragraph 2a to Article 58. In accordance with the proposed Article 34a, unacceptable to a minor, partially or wholly incapacitated, or who has been found to have ‘a neurodevelopmental disorder, illness or intellectual disorder, including personality disorder or for another reasons incapable of conscious consent, despite their full capacity for legal action’, would henceforth be ‘the conduct of an operation or another medical action to get sexual characteristics typical of a male or female patient diagnosed at birth’, in peculiar ‘the removal of sexual glands, the usage of sex hormones and their analogues, the interference in the functioning of the sexual glands and the action of sex hormones produced by them, the removal or improvement of secondary and tertiary sexual features’. The proposed Article 58(2) provides, on the another hand, for the introduction of a word of imprisonment of up to 3 years for persons carrying out an operation or another medical activities referred to in Article 34a.
An extended 37-page justification was attached to a comparatively short project. It points out that “in fresh years, in many countries around the world, especially in Europe and North America, there has been a drastic increase in the number of minors declaring recognition with the other sex of birth. peculiarly alarming are the statistic of reports to specialist medical centres performing hormonal and surgical interventions on children, as a consequence "in Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom and in 19 [currently 25] U.S. medical interventions aimed at bringing the patient to the other sex have been stopped or radically reduced. In another countries, far-reaching caution in their usage was recommended, highlighting the experimental nature of the above model. In the light of the above, the deficiency of regulations in Poland to defend minors from activities disrupting their sexual development, having the characteristics of an experimentation and having irreversible consequences for their wellness and life creates the request for legislative intervention."
During the press conference where the task was presented, prof. Joanna Smyczyńska, a children's endocrinologist, besides spoke, stressing the inadequacy of the word "sex change": From a medical point of view, something like “sex change” is simply not possible. We can't change the genetic information we have in all cell for life. We can't change the sex glands we have..
Adw. Rafał Dorosinski, associate of the Ordo Iuris Management Board, pointed out the scale of the problem: In the United States and Europe, in the last 10 years, the number of cases of targeting young people, children, teenagers to alleged sex clinics, dealing with sexual transit, has increased by hundreds and even thousands of percent. In Sweden, the UK, Italy, France, the number of specified cases has risen.
President Ordo Iuris Adw. Jerzy Kwasniewski stressed that public awareness of what is alleged "transaction" is increasing: We increasingly realize that a young man subject to cultural pressure, fashion pressure, who we refuse to smoke, buy alcohol, cannot give informed consent to undergo irreparable physical changes by depriving him of his fertility ability.
Source: Ordo Iuris Institute
