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EDITOR’S NOTE:<\/strong> Will Hall is executive editor of the Louisiana <\/em>Baptist Message (LBM). This article was first published on the LBM website here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

CORRECTED, JUNE 10, TO CLARIFY INFORMATION ABOUT DR. AZ HAKEEM IN PARAGRAPH FOUR.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) \u2013<\/strong> In a stunning interview on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Dr. Az Hakeem, who was identified as \u201cthe only psychiatrist in the UK to specialize in working psychotherapeutically with gender dysphoria patients, which he has done for 23 years,\u201d declared, \u201cGender ideology is made up. It\u2019s a social construct. It\u2019s a cult belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interview was conducted, May 12, by Andr\u00e9 Moreau, an Emmy-winning journalist who anchors the half-hour LPB television newsmagazine \u201cLouisiana: The State We\u2019re In.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreau only asked two questions during the six-minute segment, inquiring about what had prompted the change in numbers of children who were transitioning, and what the statistics about transitioning procedures looked like.<\/p>\n

TRUTH<\/h3>\n

Hakeem, whose testimony helped catalyze the National Health Service of England to commission the Cass Review which advises the country\u2019s medical community about the transgender crisis in the country, said the surge is \u201ca current form of youth subculture, you know, like punks and goths.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst thing we can do is presume it\u2019s a medical condition,\u201d he emphasized, adding, \u201cand it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

MYTHS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Hakeem also debunked three myths being spread by transgender activists.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, one myth is that people are born in the wrong body,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence that that\u2019s the case. Brains of people with gender dysphoria are exactly the same as people without.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody is born in the wrong body,\u201d Moreau continued. \u201cThere are lots of psychological conditions where people are very unhappy with their body, whether it\u2019s anorexia, body dysmorphia. But we always treat those psychologically. We never collude with the anorexic and say, \u2018Yes. You need to be thinner.\u2019\u00a0We never collude with the body dysmorphic, saying, \u2018Yes. Your body is all wrong.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

He also warned about the permanence of current treatments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a myth that the medications that we call \u2018puberty blockers\u2019 are reversible,\u201d Hakeem said. \u201cThey\u2019re not. \u2018Puberty blockers\u2019 is a sanitized term for chemical castration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re uncertain or not sure about your physical sex, then at least going through puberty will reinforce what you are,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe risk is if you\u2019re not certain about your sex, and then you don\u2019t go through puberty, then that just reinforces that you\u2019re not really a boy or a girl. \u201c<\/p>\n

He said that sort of situation is \u201cunhelpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also addressed the argument by transgender advocates that transitioning procedures are \u201clifesaving.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s another myth that if you don\u2019t give these children puberty blockers, they\u2019re at a high risk of suicide. That\u2019s a myth,\u201d Hakeem said. \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of that whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

FACTS V. FANTASY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Hakeem said he found that 100 percent of the males he treated \u201cwere on the autistic spectrum.\u201d Meanwhile, female patients had either \u201ca high incidence of trauma, often sexual trauma\u201d or \u201ca degree of homophobia \u2026 lesbophobia\u201d in their social circles and so transgenderism \u201cwas a way of escaping from that with a fantasy solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consequently, he has concluded that gender ideology \u201cis the current new religion. It\u2019s part of social justice theory, all those other things. Gender is a social construct.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have sex. We have male and female sexes. And some people are hermaphrodite, a very small number,\u201d Hakeem advised. \u201cBut gender is a social construct. The idea that gender ideology is replacing biological sex is very unfortunate. It\u2019s not helpful because it doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

DATA AVERSE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Finally, Hakeem repudiated the lack of data given the severe rise in gender dysphoria among England\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if you go to hospital for a minor procedure, like a fingernail operation, there\u2019ll be tons of outcome data along that,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cFor some reason, giving children chemical castration and cross sex hormones, there is no data.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the big criticism of the main clinic in the UK, the Tavistock GIDS [Gender identity Development Service] Clinic,\u201d Hakeem said, \u201cwas \u2018Why aren\u2019t you collecting data?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there seems to be a resistance to collecting data, which is very, very suspicious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

LAGNIAPPE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Only two weeks after the\u00a0segment with Hakeem aired, Louisiana Public Broadcasting announced, May 25, that Moreau would be retiring, with his final broadcast scheduled for the next day. LPB described that last show as a\u00a0\u201clook back at Moreau\u2019s impressive 40-year career in broadcasting that led to a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview on Louisiana Public Broadcasting below:<\/p>\n