HBS INTERNATIONAL focuses on International
Activism for the very basic human rights of children born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome, and
for to spread accurate and updated information about the condition. Health and Human Rights
Resource available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. International Educational Resource
for Harry Benjamin Syndrome.
Political activism, informational resource for professionals, networking,
information resource for everybody. International volunteering-networking. Personal assistance. Medical and Legal archives.
Personal assistance can be provided in English and Spanish languages. This Organization primarily focus in people born
withHarry Benjamin Syndrome, a very rare inborn Intersex condition.
Information - Assistance. The possibility to become volunteer members of the organization for to advance in the human rights of people born with variant
intersex conditions. Volunteer young people needed as there are many youngsters sufferingHarry Benjamin
Syndrome nowadays.
"People need to know that no matter
who you are, transvestite, sufferer of GID, or transsexual man or woman, nobody has the right to force you into the political
scheme known as transgender. Those who push that identity onto you are committing an act of political violence by taking away
your rights and forcing you to accept something that benefits them, not you."
Unlike other intersex conditions, the clinical manifestations of this syndrome are not evident at birth, it becomes evident
later, during childhood, and frequently as early as 2 or 3 years of age. Understanding of the clinical picture and differential
diagnosis of this syndrome is of vital importance for early detection and medical treatment by pediatric endocrinologists
and specialized surgeons in treating this syndrome.
HarryBenjaminSyndrome has
been known in the past with many different names, Transsexualism (ICD-10) being the most commonly used. Today we
know that Harry Benjamin Syndrome is a disorder of sex development (DSD) and the WHO is reclassifying it accordingly.
This website is about Harry Benjamin Syndrome,
the clinical manifestation of what was formerly known as True Transsexualism (Type VI on the diagnosis table of Harry Benjamin). It is an extremely rare condition [1:100,000] which is not related to the sexual ambiguity of transsexuals
in general as the term "transsexual" is used today.
We demand the WHO remove Transsexualism from Section
F (mental disorders) of the ICD, and Reclassify it as Harry Benjamin Syndrome in Section Q of the ICD -Chapter XVII - Section Q.00-Q.99 : Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities. Specifically
we demand inclusion in Section Q.80-Q.8x of the same Chapter, which lists Other congenital malformations. Being the updated
diagnostic nomenclature Harry Benjamin Syndrome [Q.80.x].
Since people with Harry Benjamin Syndrome are conventional in their gender identity and expression,
like most members of society, these people need a physical rehabilitation of their endocrine system and phenotype in order
to function in society as any other average person.
They
are not seeking to defy societal norms of gender or sexuality as is the case of transgender and most who call themselves transsexuals
today, but only to affirm their sex within themselves.
People with Harry Benjamin Syndrome as a group are naturally
opposed to ambiguous groups of sex and/or gender such as transgendered persons and most who call themselves transsexuals.
People with Harry Benjamin Syndrome are not a part of a supposed continuum of gender ambiguity these others purport.
Despite the confusion in terminology with the old concept of True Transsexualism,
persons with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (which in reality is a type of intersex condition) should not be confused with transgenderism
and other ambiguous sexual states in general.
People born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome are persons with a binary gender orientation of either Man or Woman, as any other typical person within society.
Their identity is woman or man, never "transsexual". Therefore they need a complete physical rehabilitation
in order to function sexually and develop socially as any other individual within our society.
People with Harry Benjamin Syndrome repudiate sexual ambiguity
and don't feel identified with sexually ambiguous labels like "transsexual" or "transgender" which neither define nor represent
them.
The research confirmed that Harry Benjamin Syndrome was not a lifestyle
decision, as some had suggested, said another team member, Trudy Kennedy, the director of the Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic
in Melbourne, Australia.
"People who come to our clinic describe how they knew they were different
at a very early age, just three or four years old. This is something that people are born with." - Dr
Trudy Kennedy said. (Read More...)
Harry Benjamin Syndrome, which today is know to be a form
of Intersex inborn condition (physiological) has been formerly know and incorrectly
classified by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as "Gender Identity Disorder" (DSM-IV-TR) and
by the International Classification of Disseases (ICD-10) as "transsexualism" as a "mental disorder", without
any scientifical proof for such a classification of "mental illness" until the current date. This
misclassification of HBS as a "mental disorder" creates a very unfair,
unnecessary and abusive legal, social and medical stigma about people born with this condition. Please, watch the
Video below, that show you the FACTS about the dangerous pseudo-science that is Psychiatry.
PSYCHIATRY: INVENTING MENTAL ILLNESS
There is ZERO reported cases of any
possible "cure" for Harry Benjamin Syndrome patients using psychiatric methods, for the simple reason that Harry Benjamin
Syndrome is not, it never was a psychiatric condition. It is only through the adequate correction of the
body that this condition can be fixed, just as in another form of physical intersex condition, and thus it should be treated by
a real Doctor, not by a psychiatrist. Any form of psychiatric treatment directly addressed to try to correct HBS by psychiatric
means, is contraindicated (See SOC-HBS First Draft, 2006, Charlotte Goiar).
We strongly encourage readers to order the full documentary provided for free by CCHR.ORG in order to learn more about the abuse and fraud of Psychiatric practice nowadays all around the world:
Dr Kevan Wylie, MB, MmedSc, MD, FRCPsych, DSM. (UK)
"Transsexualism (HBS) is now regarded by the world's
leading experts in the field as another of the many biological variations that occur in human sexual formation -an intersex
condition- where the sex indicated by the phenotype and genotype is opposite the morphological sex of the brain. People
with the condition of transsexualism (HBS) are therefore born with both male and female characteristics and, like many others
with atypical sexual development, seek rehabilitation of their phenotype and endocrinology to accord with their dominant sexual
identity; an identity which is determined by the structure of the brain. Transsexualism (HBS) is about
being a particular sex, not doing it. It is also about recognising gender norms, not challenging them." -Karen
Gurney & Eithne Mills. 2005. Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol
12, No #1 & #2
"There should be no escape for medical and legal authorities that
these definitions ought to be corrected and updated when new information becomes available, particularly when our outdated
definitions bring suffering to some of our fellow human beings." - Professor
Louis Gooren, MD. 2004, regarding current terminologies still in use for Harry Benjamin Syndrome (old Transsexualism).
