# Belgian transman killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 2, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-transman-killed-by-euthanasia-after-a-botched-sex-change-operation/670164 "2013-10-02T05:19:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-transman-killed-by-euthanasia-after-a-botched-sex-change-operation/670164/14 "2013-10-18T00:46:56Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Do you have any evidence that Verhelst’s transsexuality was due to his parent’s treatment of him? Lots of women have grown up with misogynistic parents - arguably, most women throughout history - and yet a very, very, tiny percentage of them identify as transsexual. Grumman doesn’t care very much for transpeople’s decisions about their gender - here’s one example of his thoughts on them, from a past thread. > [@"Gender identity" is mental illness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-identity-is-mental-illness/667011/144): > > Transsexuals are like the religious right: idiots who hold a counterfactual worldview who think it’s hate speech to not treat their worldview as true. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-transman-killed-by-euthanasia-after-a-botched-sex-change-operation/670164)._