Vidyaratha Kissoon’s Hypocrisy on the Role of Science in Addressing

Gender-Identity Disorders and “Sexual Orientation”

Dear Editor,

I refer to the letter “While science has recognized ‘intersex’ the law does not recognize it” (SN 4/4/10) and
would appreciate the opportunity to rebut. It represents a stunning hypocrisy that gay militancy, which
disregarded 120 years of scientific psychiatric research on political whim, is now advocating that “science”
and not “human rights” has a part to play on the issue of transgenderism and sexual orientation!

It is not surprising that the proponents of gay-militancy in Guyana have retreated from the detail in “The
Case Against Cross-dressing and Transgenderism in Guyana”
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/27698238/The-Case-Against-Cross-Dressing-or-Transgender-ism-in-Guyana
; see pgs. 9 and 10 therein) to the concocted verbiage of gay-militant doctrine. Once again, the
intellectual gabble offered by Kissoon helps to reveal the unfathomable duplicity, the cruel deception, and
the massive hoax that gay-militancy … and its “science” … is founded upon.

Firstly, therefore, we should again redirect the Guyanese public to the solid evidence they need to make
responsible decisions, in the process advising that secular clinical (scientific) research agrees completely
with the Biblical position on psycho-sexual deviancy. For a comprehensive treatment on the definitions
that Kissoon "forgot" to educate us about, Please refer to “Q&A on Gender Identity Confusion --
Sexual Behavior Disorders”; http://www.pfox.org/Q&A-gender-identity-confusion.pdf )

Secondly, as to the Sunday-Editor’s unfortunate caption of the letter above, the “science” which Kissoon
claims acknowledges “intersex” also acknowledges, in the 120 years of psychiatry encompassed by and
before Adler, Jung and Freud … that homosexuality, transgenderism, bisexuality, bestiality, lesbianism,
fetishism, sadism are all psycho-sexual and behaviour-based disorders. How then is this part of the
“science” dismissed … or been replaced … without clinical inquiry? Readers would be wise to invest in
perusing the short article “The Removal of Homosexuality from the Psychiatric Manual” by Dr.
Joseph Nicolosi (http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/CSSR/Archival/2001/Nicolosi_71-78.pdf )

Thirdly, readers should get a shocking introduction into the intellectual and political terrorism that
“overthrew” classic scientific investigation into psychosexual and gender-identity disorders … and spawned
a doctrine based on nothing more than “intellectual gibberish” of the sort Kissoon spouts above … by
reading the article “Sexual Politics And Scientific Logic: The Issue Of Homosexuality” by Dr.
Charles W. Socarides, M.D (http://www.pfox.org/Removal_of_homosexuality.html ). An excerpt follows:

“…The devastating clinical fallout from this decision was to follow. Those who would wish to retain
homosexuality as a valid diagnosis have been practically silenced by lectures, meetings, and publications,
both originating within our association and from other sources. Political parties and religious leaders have
been utilized to reinforce this silence. The press has been influenced as well as the media; television and
movies promote homosexuality as an alternative life style as well as censor movies which might show
homosexuality as a disorder. Homosexual sex education has entered our schools and colleges and pro-Gay
activists, homosexual or otherwise, portray their way of life as "normal as apple pie" and intimidate others
with different views…”

Fourthly, therefore, where did Kissoon get his doctrine of “gender-reassignment”? No other place than the
gutter-literature of gay militancy, it seems. Now Dr. Paul McHugh, Distinguished Service Professor of
Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, in 2005, makes the following statements as he considers Kissoon’s
idea of “Surgical Sex” ( http://www.pfox.org/Transgenderism_is_gender_identity_disorder.html ):

“… When the practice of sex-change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind
its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity
Prayer, “God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things
I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Where did they get the idea that our sexual identity
(“gender” was the term they preferred) as men or women was in the category of things that could be
changed? …”

“… We have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by
collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it …”

We can again infer, as before, that Kissoon’s ideology seeks to perpetuate a humongous hoax!

Yours faithfully
Roger Williams
April 4, 2010