Le Figaro / Le sermon dans les bonnes feuilles d'Eugénie Bastié - Published on 18 February 2025
In ‘Le sermon d'hippocrate’ (Editions de l'Observatoire), child psychiatrist Caroline Eliacheff and psychoanalyst Céline Masson warn of the drift of gender-based medicine, particularly when it comes to minors. A precise and gripping book, it questions a form of medicine that, under the guise of benevolence, no longer treats but validates desires, at the risk of causing irreversible damage.
We show that gender medicine applied to minors reveals civilisational issues that go beyond it. What are we talking about? On the one hand, the minors - mainly girls - who, at the time of adolescence, declare that they want to change sex, or to be a boy, or even not to become a woman; on the other hand, the response given to these young people by the specialised services dedicated to them, the educational establishment and society as a whole. In reality, the number of young people concerned is not negligible, and we quickly became aware of the gap between the official medical discourse and the reality of what families were experiencing.
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