Sheila Jeffreys has for years claimed that trans surgery is the product of some malevolent conspiracy:
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people’s rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born, what Janice Raymond refers to as their “native” bodies. It represents an attack on the body to rectify a political condition, “gender” dissatisfaction in a male supremacist society based upon a false and politically constructed notion of gender difference.Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism. – Sheila Jeffreys, TERF opinion leader, author and speaker
Let’s fact check this claim. What follows is an interview I did with the out gay individual who collaborated with with the lesbians from Jeffreys’ community to create the first gender treatment center in Sheila Jeffreys’ country of Australia.