@Greyskybluesky letter to the new Archbishop……..
I have written a letter to the newly appointed Her Grace Archbishop of Canterbury regarding the so-called sex reassignment surgeries-it is as follows:
Our Grace / Dear Archbishop of Canterbury,
Congratulations on your appointment to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury.
I write with grave concern about surgical procedures promoted as “gender-affirming care”—vaginoplasty, castration of normal young men, and phalloplasty—now performed on young people in psychological distress, often diagnosed with a mental health condition called “gender dysphoria” (DSM-5). Never in the history of medicine have such deliberate surgical mutilations been carried out on human beings with mental health conditions (described in DSM-5 psychiatry manual) by a handful of “surgeons”.
As a surgically trained medical professional myself, I must testify: these operations do not create new sexual organs. They destroy healthy structures like the penis and testicles in males, or the labia majora in females in perfectly normal young people causing irreversible harm. What is unfolding is both a medical and moral tragedy that calls for the Church’s clear voice.
- Vaginoplasty – A False Claim
This operation is presented as the creation of a “vagina”. In reality this operation involves stripping of the skin of penis, followed by trisecting the degloved penis longitudinally into three long strips (reminiscent of medieval quartering), calling it disassembly and then slicing across the base of the penis detaching it once and for all with a sharp surgical blade. Then they cut in between the urinary tract and the back passage and create a slit-like space where there is no natural space in an android male pelvis and call it a “vagina”.
In reality, this is a deep surgical wound lined by skin. This structure should not be named as Vaginoplasty as it is clearly misleading the vulnerable adolescent youth. The correct terminology for this procedure will be “Perineal Woundoplasty” (indicative of a wound) or “Perineal Holoplasty” (indicating an artificial hole).
A natural female vagina is an elastic (lamina propria layer is rich in elastic fibres), moist, muscular canal with its own blood supply, glycogen-rich inner lining, lactobacillus flora creating an acidic pH, cervical secretions, and specialized nerves (vaginal plexus). By contrast, this surgical slit like cavity is a contracting wound with no lamina propria or elasticity, prone to infections, odour, and sepsis. To call this structure a “vagina” is profoundly misleading and deceptive.
- Phalloplasty – A Futile Substitute
Phalloplasty is described as giving an “anatomical and functional penis.” In truth:
A flap of skin, fat, and tissue is taken from arm or thigh and shaped into a mound attached to the pubic area.
No erectile tissue exists; natural erections are impossible.
There is no emission, ejaculation phases as happens in a normal physiology of a true Penis of a Man.
The surgically lengthened urethra often leads to strictures, fistulae, infections, and repeated interventions.
These hitherto perfectly normal young people usually become lifelong urology patients.
What results is not a penis, but a mound of skin and fat incapable of manhood’s natural functions.
- The Deception
Both procedures involve the removal of healthy, God-given organs and are falsely portrayed as creating the anatomy of the opposite sex. Consent obtained under such deception cannot be considered valid. This is not medicine, but mutilation—contrary to the healer’s oath to “first, do no harm.” Your Grace, as you are now to be ordained Archbishop of the holy Church, will you speak out against this deception and withhold any support that might allow it to continue?
Children in some UK schools are now being taught that gender is fluid, that they may have been born in the wrong body, and that their true identity can differ from the reality recognised by themselves and their parents. This ideology has become a dangerous conveyor belt — beginning in the Relationships and Sex Education classrooms of our schools and ending on the operating tables of some urologists and plastic surgeons. Nowhere in the Gospel of our Lord is there any justification for such distortions of the truth. Will the Bishops of this nation rise to defend God’s creation — male and female — and bear clear witness to it?
- The Testimony of a Welsh Mother
Recently, a mother from Wales wrote to me in anguish over her son. I am sharing her exact words:
“Thank you joseph, I believe my fight is over for
**(her son’s first name), he had reached the top of the surgery list. I have been in the darkest place and can’t find my way out, my prayers are baron as I can’t think straight.
I truly hope and pray that something will stop the NHS carrying out their evil very soon, before it is all too late. (Tearful Emoji)”
The distressed Welsh mother says she has been in a darkest place and can’t find her way out, even posted a tearful emoji alongside her message. Her spelling and grammatical slips are entirely understandable, given the level of upset she was experiencing while typing.
Her beloved son is about to undergo castration and penile amputation. She watches in despair, powerless as surgeons prepare to deal with him who is misled by ideology taught even in schools. Like countless suffering mothers across our land, she suffers as her child (now an young adult) is led to irreversible harm.
The Welsh mother again wrote to me this week in WhatsApp as follows:
“I am sorry for lack of communication, I am again grateful for being of help and to for your voice. I am not very with it at the moment but happy you have used this. It has affected all areas of our lives, including my own ability to hold down my full-time job, am exhausted and overwhelmed with it all Joseph.
I am sorry to only now be getting back to you. I hope these words get heard because currently, I feel nothing but anger at the government for the
**(not a swearing word) it is. Bless you. (folded hands emoji)”
Her words speak for the continued agony and the desperation she is going through.
- The Witness of Scripture
The truth of the body is written in God’s Word:
“Male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
“I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:13-14)
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have received from God. You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honour God with your bodies.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
Our tradition has upheld the integrity of the body and opposed mutilation. Jesus Christ Himself, even in His agony on the Cross, cared for His sorrowing Mother: “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother. “From that time on, this disciple took her into his home (John 19:26–27). In imitation of Jesus’ compassion, the Church must not remain silent while affected mothers all over this country weep as their so-called “trans” children and adolescents are medically and surgically mutilated. I am aware of many mothers similar to this Welsh mother across this country going through this agony.
Will the bishops of this nation — both Anglican/Protestant and Catholic — show the same compassion to grieving mothers today as our Lord showed to His own Mother from the Cross?”
- A Call to Shepherds
Your voices as bishops are urgently needed. Silence now would be complicity. Young people are being deceived into irreversible mutilation, sterility, lifelong medical dependence, regret, and brokenness.
I humbly appeal that you:
Speak publicly and courageously against these mutilating surgical practices on physically normal human beings.
Call on governments and medical bodies to halt them.
Provide pastoral care for those in gender confusion explaining them regarding the invincibility of God’s creation as a Man and a Woman and telling them as to how beautiful they are in God’s own image.
Support grieving parents, working toward reconciliation with their misled and sometimes estranged children/adolescent youth (18-25), some of them now are young adults (25-32)
The Church must shine as a beacon of truth: the human body is not a mistake to be cut apart, but a gift from Almighty God with its perfection.
With respect and urgency,
Dr. Joseph Chrysostom
MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCSEd
GMC 5199143.