Source: Women are Human
BR — Blumenau, Santa Catarina. Two boys who, since childhood, had been subjected to harassment from peers over their ‘pretty’ looks and less than ‘masculine’ behaviors have recently become the world’s first twins to jointly undergo surgery intended to make them physically resemble the other sex. The tragic story is being celebrated as ‘liberating’ in the national and international press.
“My friends threw notebooks in my head for being feminine,” Mayla Phoebe said of his childhood in Tapira, Brazil. “Since I was a child, I felt it wasn’t mine when I looked at my (male) genitals.”
Despite a very supportive family, Mayla Phoebe and his identical twin brother Sofia Albuquerck each attempted suicide over the bullying.
The twins eventually confessed to their families that they wanted to be girls.
At the age of 15, the boys began ingesting cross-sex hormones via contraceptives, though the press refers to this drug misuse as “hormonal therapy.”
The twins had silicone prosthesis put in at age 19.
The maternal grandfather of Sofia and Mayla said he had been heartbroken every time his grandsons were bullied. When he learned the boys were identifying as girls and wanted to undergo ‘gender-affirming’ plastic surgery, the grandfather sold his house to fund their procedures.
Doctors José Carlos Martins Junior and Cláudio Eduardo, who run Transgender Center Brazil, the only ‘gender’ surgery and facial feminization clinic in the country, performed the four hour, 40 minute-long operations on the 19-year-olds on February 10 and 11.
The grandfather said he “smiled” when the teens’ cosmetic surgery was completed successfully.
Mayla, an aspiring doctor in the third year of medicine, now says he wishes to help “other trans girls be themselves.” He has already received an internship proposal from a doctor who performed his and his twin’s surgeries.
Brazil’s NSC Total framed the twins’ drastic and permanent change to their exterior as “liberating.”
Insight Korea gushed over how the twins may now show off “sexy expressions” and bodies in bikinis.
The study “Deep vein thrombosis in a transgender woman,” which is published in the databases of the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that “high doses of estrogen,” including for “transgender treatment,” increases “the chances of getting blood clots,” a condition that is “often the cause of sudden death and strokes.”
In December, the UK government determined based on evidence from researchers that ‘almost all’ children grow out of gender dysphoria and that suicide rates are higher amongst those who receive medical intervention than those who ‘wait and see’. As a result of this and findings that clinical interventions have long-term consequences to the health of children, the UK High Court made it difficult for children under 16 to obtain puberty blockers.
