About mother Yulia Savinovskikh, deprived of adopted children because of desire to change sex (tragic legal consequences of imperfections of psychiatric classifications)

Abstract

In the article the case of Yulia Savinovskikh from whose family two adoptive juvenile children who have lived within several years with trustees and their own children and received during this time the effective help in therapy of the chronic diseases have been withdrawn, is analyzed. The surgery fact (a bilateral mastectomy) for the purpose of the further sex change which was carried out in Yu. Savinovskikh after approval of her husband and relatives, has formed the basis for withdrawal of children. Justification of the judgment was the instruction on the fact that the transsexualizm belongs to the category of mental disorders in the presence of which the person cant adopt the child or accept him under guardianship. The described case has highlighted aspect, relevant for modern psychiatry, the actual legal equating of behavioural disorders and deviations, to mental with distribution of rights deprivation of such persons.