Peter Guidi
Old Orchard Beach
LD 227
I am offering this testimony as an advisory against adopting LD227.
As you consider LD227, I have personal experience with transgenderism that I would
like to relate to the committee. Before relating this experience I’d like to say that I am
63 years old and experienced low testosterone. As a result, my doctor prescribed
injections of testosterone which I’ve been on for a few years. If you know others in
my circumstance then perhaps they can confirm the significant impact of these
injections. Testosterone impacts more than muscle mass. It impacts one’s thinking
and mood. It significantly increases libido, but also moods, including aggression. I’m
often amazed at its impact on me. As a 200 pound man, one little shot does quite a bit.
I can’t imagine how it messes with the mind of a young woman injecting this drug.
My story. I’ll change a name to protect in anonymity. I employ day labor during the
spring and fall. In the spring of 2022 a young person, will call Sam presented himself
for work. I needed help that morning so I was pleased to meet this young “man”.
Standing in front of me was a young man, about 5’5” with an oversized shirt a knit
cap and a fledgling beard, mostly about the chin. Sam has an engaging smile and blue
eyes.
As an employer I tend to set a person up for the job and leave them alone to get the
work done. And so it was with Sam. The job that morning was washing floors. After
few hours in I went to check on Sam’s progress. As I entered the room, I could see
him on his hands and knees from behind. Sam was washing the floor and as I
approached something seemed out of place. Sam’s shape did not seem “male”, at least
to my experience. It was not obvious to me, but it got me thinking. So, after another
thirty minutes I went back to Sam, this time curious to look more closely. When Sam
stood up, I looked more closely into his eyes, observing his face, and came to the
conclusion that Sam was not a boy. As the day turned into weeks, I engaged Sam
gaining his trust to learn that Sam was indeed a female, Samantha.
Over time Samantha opened up on her struggles, decisions and current path. Over
time I met a few people in her life who added to the story. When I met Sam he was
having a hard time holding a job. Drugs, both medication/illegal along with cannabis
and alcohol were wreaking havoc on his life. Between chaotic interpersonal
relationships and a disastrous family situation his life was a wreck.
It turns out that Samantha is a bisexual, but “dykey” mostly Lesbian young woman.
She preferred short hair, male dress, and was in love with a young woman. But she
was also bisexual and so she tended to “hook up” with random men for anonymous
sex. She’d been raped a number of times, mostly when passed out during drug fueled
parties, her family had abandoned her as “Sam” and by the time I met “him” he was
aggressive and angry.
As disturbing as I found the circumstances, what really angered me was learning that
Planned Parenthood in Biddeford was the place where Samantha learned that
becoming Sam would solve her problems. It was Planned Parenthood who put
Samantha on testosterone and was counseling her to have her breasts removed. I was
blown away. Instead of counseling her to accept herself the way she is and find
someone who loves her, they put her on massive amounts of a drug (with little regard
for her ongoing substance abuse) that I know has a profound impact on a person. I
know this because it has a profound impact on me.
Since I met Sam, I’ve continued to witness more and more destructive behaviors.
Imagine the confusion of a young woman on these drugs, a transgender male, naked
he still has a vagina, sleeping with men because he believes he’s a bisexual male. Sam
is having heterosexual sexual intercourse with men. If this sounds confusing to read,
imagine living through this sort of sexual encounter through the fog of testosterone
and other mood altering meds, weed and booze.
This is the world LD227 will codify. Now, you all may think this is a unique story.
It’s not. Since meeting Sam, I’ve met two other young transgender males (woman
transitioning). Their stories are similar. You may believe that somehow Planned
Parenthood, Doctors or Clinics will or can do better. You are kidding yourself, they
are enabling and allowing this sort of destruction behavior today, it will only get
worse.
As you consider LD227 know that it’s a warning to you. Sam’s life is unlikely to get
better. As he/she ages the impacts of hormones will change, the drugs and lifestyle
will either kill him, or eventually he’ll be left to the ravages of surgery and the debris
of a chaotic personal life exasperated by professionals experimenting with new ideas
on biology. In the end, this is the path LD 227 proposes. I sure hope you all turn your
back on this proposal.
Sincerely
Peter Guidi
https://legislature.maine.gov/testimony/resources/HCIFS20240305Guidi133539589516231913.pdf