Thread by @TaniaAMarshall

The 2021 #Australian Association of Family Therapy #AAFT Conference included a presentation on ‘treating families with Transgender Children’ in the context of family therapy & is a significant departure from ethics, guidelines & the foundational principles of family #therapy

If you are member of the public seeking a family therapist, you have the right to know how they are trained. What follows is their recent training materials. Please share widely. I will be discussing this in my book. Please choose a #therapist wisely. I cannot overstate this

Family therapists in Australia are trained to have an agenda and bias. They are trained to ‘normalise’ and affirm self-ID

If you are seeking therapy, this is likely not for you. You are viewed as a ‘resistant’ family, meaning you are resistant to ‘affirmation’. This is already not an open space for families to receive therapy, because it has agenda & therapist has been trained how to ‘see’ you

There is deception in their training 👇🏻 Where are the references? The cohort they refer to in the 1990’s and today’s children are completely different cohorts. Parents must know the truth

Australian family therapists are taught that gender is homogeneous and to ‘practice seeing the gender their patients want them to see’

Therapists are taught why families are protective and the reasons why. Therapists are then asked to question if the parents are the problem

The Australian Association of family therapists Trains their therapists that the child is the “expert” on themself. NO, the child’s prefrontal cortex is immature until age 25 and they lack the ‘capacity’ to be the “expert” of self.