Here’s how it goes now. You’re in a family therapy session and the psychologist looks at you somberly and says “What you need to do now is accept that this is not your son, it’s your daughter. This may be hard, but after mourning for your son, in time you will accept your daughter and all will be well!”
I'm just going to post this link here, to the important criticism of medicalized treatment of GD by leading trans-psychologists: https://wapo.st/3EelVvm
The problem is that courts and schools and governments are allowing this to happen without consulting parents or without consent and by removing the child and framing the parents as 'abusers'
This is an excellent piece which manages to capture how I am feeling about all of this. I am single Father to a vulnerable teenage girl who has gone through things I wouldn't wish on anyone thanks to an abusive mother whom I have only recently been able to rescue her from. She is questioning everything at the moment and the last thing on earth that she needs is exposure to any of this cynical abusive nonsense/(nonce sense)? It is the very fact that her School absolutely refused to "keep secrets" on behalf of her mother that enabled me to intervene and prevent further abuse. How dare anyone attempt to undermine these long established child and parental rights and safeguarding principals. Article 2 of the section Fundamental Freedoms from the European Commission on Human Rights states: "In the exercise
of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to
teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such
education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and
philosophical convictions" - this is NOT up for debate!
Don’t know where you got the idea, but your opening has nothing to do with Family Therapy. And generally. Family therapists are psychotherapists. I know a lot of family therapists and can’t imagine any of them talking in this way. Psychotherapy is exactly what is needed by young people and their families struggling with sexual identity issues. Gender dysphoria is too challenging to be left to the ideologues or the pushers of testosterone.
Sorry but how on earth is anyone ever going to'prove' something which is so deeply emotional, personal and human ? If someone just feels bad do they need to prove it? No. You just trust their Word. Why would they make it up? Scientific proof is of very little use in a whole swathe of the human experience.
Exactly right. Why are people buying into this absurdity? If some adult wants to take the bold, risky move of medically altering their body to appear as the opposite sex, and if they believe this will make them feel more comfortable (I think they usually do this because they don’t feel comfortable bucking gender stereotypes and I feel for them and wish they could feel comfortable to express being without medical intervention but understand that society may not accept a woman acting very masculine or, more often, a man being very feminine and may not “treat him like a lady” without him looking like a lady), that’s their choice and good luck to them. I wish them well. However, there is no proof and no logical basis to believe that this is the one and only treatment for anyone - particularly a confused teenager - who feels uncomfortable with their sexed body. Discomfort and confusion are the hallmarks of teenagers - and the idea that teenagers should be medically altered based on those feelings makes me extremely uneasy. Allowing for gender non-conformity -let your son play with Barbies and wear princess dresses or your teenage daughter cut her hair short and wear masculine clothes - should theoretically go a long way toward eliminating feelings of discomfort. Time and maturity should resolve the rest of the problems for almost everyone. If there are a few adults who still simply cannot be happy without medical alterations, again, let them do it and live happily. There is no reason to medically alter teenagers. Amd no reason to tell small children they were born in the wrong body or that they are “really” a boy or girl, despite their biological reality. We need to stop and think and be careful before we pump synthetic hormones through our teenagers’ bodies. Thank you, Pitt
I'm just going to post this link here, to the important criticism of medicalized treatment of GD by leading trans-psychologists: https://wapo.st/3EelVvm
please make your objections and rejections as publicly wide as possible, so that other parents get it!
The problem is that courts and schools and governments are allowing this to happen without consulting parents or without consent and by removing the child and framing the parents as 'abusers'
This is an excellent piece which manages to capture how I am feeling about all of this. I am single Father to a vulnerable teenage girl who has gone through things I wouldn't wish on anyone thanks to an abusive mother whom I have only recently been able to rescue her from. She is questioning everything at the moment and the last thing on earth that she needs is exposure to any of this cynical abusive nonsense/(nonce sense)? It is the very fact that her School absolutely refused to "keep secrets" on behalf of her mother that enabled me to intervene and prevent further abuse. How dare anyone attempt to undermine these long established child and parental rights and safeguarding principals. Article 2 of the section Fundamental Freedoms from the European Commission on Human Rights states: "In the exercise
of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to
teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such
education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and
philosophical convictions" - this is NOT up for debate!
Thank you for writing this!
If you read comments on twitter they most certainly are not buying it Karen. It's overwhelming the opposition to trans, so there is hope!~
Don’t know where you got the idea, but your opening has nothing to do with Family Therapy. And generally. Family therapists are psychotherapists. I know a lot of family therapists and can’t imagine any of them talking in this way. Psychotherapy is exactly what is needed by young people and their families struggling with sexual identity issues. Gender dysphoria is too challenging to be left to the ideologues or the pushers of testosterone.
This is the best article that I have read for a while. Easy to understand and powerful. I will be using this quite often. Thank you
Sorry but how on earth is anyone ever going to'prove' something which is so deeply emotional, personal and human ? If someone just feels bad do they need to prove it? No. You just trust their Word. Why would they make it up? Scientific proof is of very little use in a whole swathe of the human experience.
These posts are heroic.
Brilliant, I have a few gender clinicians I’ll be mailing this to.
Pop that trans bubble, we love 2 see it 💖
Exactly right. Why are people buying into this absurdity? If some adult wants to take the bold, risky move of medically altering their body to appear as the opposite sex, and if they believe this will make them feel more comfortable (I think they usually do this because they don’t feel comfortable bucking gender stereotypes and I feel for them and wish they could feel comfortable to express being without medical intervention but understand that society may not accept a woman acting very masculine or, more often, a man being very feminine and may not “treat him like a lady” without him looking like a lady), that’s their choice and good luck to them. I wish them well. However, there is no proof and no logical basis to believe that this is the one and only treatment for anyone - particularly a confused teenager - who feels uncomfortable with their sexed body. Discomfort and confusion are the hallmarks of teenagers - and the idea that teenagers should be medically altered based on those feelings makes me extremely uneasy. Allowing for gender non-conformity -let your son play with Barbies and wear princess dresses or your teenage daughter cut her hair short and wear masculine clothes - should theoretically go a long way toward eliminating feelings of discomfort. Time and maturity should resolve the rest of the problems for almost everyone. If there are a few adults who still simply cannot be happy without medical alterations, again, let them do it and live happily. There is no reason to medically alter teenagers. Amd no reason to tell small children they were born in the wrong body or that they are “really” a boy or girl, despite their biological reality. We need to stop and think and be careful before we pump synthetic hormones through our teenagers’ bodies. Thank you, Pitt
👌 ... let's do schools, next! 👍
Another fantastic article from PITT, thankyou
Brilliant. Thank you.