Undoubtedly interesting is the effort of Antonis Samaras to enrich the political debate in the country by criticizing the national health organization and, by extension, the government for adopting the view that there is in society a pluralism of genders, where everyone chooses what they like - in this case the choice beyond "male" and "female" for the EOPYY is also "other" and "undefined".
Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with the former prime minister, it is encouraging that a politician was found who "raised" an issue that goes beyond the commonplace of everyday petty politics.
His criticism, however, that these views undermine the values of the Greek family constitutes a very small part of the problem. The big problem, I believe, lies elsewhere.
Self-identification and science
The most serious problem with these views is that they try to banish biology – and consequently science – and remove it from the effort to understand and define the human species and its behavior.
When someone argues that the issue of gender is a matter of "self-identification," they are essentially denying the central role of science in determining what exists in the world - from photons to cells. This therefore creates reasonable questions when a scientific body such as EOPYY promotes these views.
The issue therefore is not whether one believes that there are 2 or 102 genders. The issue is where these narratives stem from. Do they stem from the realm of science, i.e. biology, and treat the human being as matter shaped by the millions of years of evolution and subject to the same natural laws as the rest of the world, or do they stem from the realm of subjective beliefs (political, religious, ideological), in which case they may be interesting from a literary point of view, but they have no place in scientific organizations.
Scientific obscurantism
The theory of the pluralism of genders does not represent an "extremity" that threatens the traditional family. It represents the scientific obscurantism that threatens humanity's greatest achievement: science.
But let us be fair. It is not only the theory of the pluralism of genders that aims to marginalize the scientific narrative about the human being and their constitution. Equally destructive to the scientific conception of the world are the narratives of many religions about the creation of the world and of man, which, however, are accepted and supported by states.
The political intervention
Particularly interesting in the whole story was the intervention of Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who tried in every way to downplay the issue. Not because the issue lacked interest, but because with his well-known shrewdness he realized earlier than anyone else what the Pandora's box opened by Mr. Samaras concealed.
Because in a country like Greece, where until recently (around 2023) a student could finish secondary education without being taught anything about the science of evolution and Charles Darwin, scientific obscurantism is not a monopoly of the followers of "woke" ideology.