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@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 1/ GIDS's founder (who is still on staff) is a Kleinian psychoanalyst. They believe there is a necessary path to full development (hence "Gender Identity _Development_ Service") & a failure at a stage, such as understanding that all males must become men, can be overcome, with…
@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 2/…extensive psychoanalysis, if the patient cooperates, if the issue originated during a "paranoid-schizoid" phase (they see humans as only experiencing 2 types of phases throughout life, either that sort, or "depressive" ones - weird, eh?). So first they have to determine…
@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 3/…by extensive therapy, if there is an issue, then if the patient will cooperate, if so then in the type of phase it was established, & then they need to psychoanalyse the child (which many would say is a problematic situation regarding power differential). Anna Freud, who…
@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 4/…founded the Tavistock Institute, where GIDS is located, had her two children psychoanalysed by Melanie Klein as a preventive measure against homosexuality. None of this has any recognisable evidence base. The NHS of course will not fund psychoanalysis, which is very costly…
@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 5/…and it has been, for 40+yrs accepted that adult transsexual people (the Tavi & private psychotherapists treat willing transgender people of the cross-dressing diversity - an example of a patient is Grayson Perry) always refuse psychoanalysis, but minors are "fair game" still.
@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 6/ Psychoanalysts have £££ invested in maintaining their fields (they have to go through psychoanalysis themselves, for starters) so defend them relentlessly. Meanwhile, earning £££ seeing lots of people who will always refuse their skills, but offer the small hope of one…
@velobabe @TeamGender @transmum1 7/… accept, be "cured", is a lifeline. And therein lays explanations of halfheartedly tackling delays, advising against anything affirming, especially #GenderRecognition, which they see as cementing the issue, as (non-GIDS) Tavi staff wrote to the press in 2004, opposing the GRA
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