Here's a segment from the WPATH guidelines for hormone replacement therapy, one way to treat gender dysphoria.
"If significant medical and mental concerns are present, they must be reasonably well controlled."
The budding psychiatrist who wrote for #Quillette should know.
"If significant medical and mental concerns are present, they must be reasonably well controlled."
The budding psychiatrist who wrote for #Quillette should know.
At the beginning of the #Quillette article by trainee psychiatrist James Esses the concern is the outlawing of conversion therapy with reference to therapy that attempts to change a person's gender identity. He says he's worried that some therapy he offers is being criminalized.
But then: "I am fighting an uphill battle, as many websites aimed at children with gender dysphoria read as more of a road map to transitioning (how to change your pronouns, how to seek medical interventions, etc.), without any reference to psychotherapy or counselling."
He's no longer worried here that what he does might fall under criminal law. He's worried that patients read stuff about transness and about therapy for gender dysphoria on the interwebz.
Do anti-trans campaigners have a name for that, I wonder?
Do anti-trans campaigners have a name for that, I wonder?
"We live in a world in which a young person need only perform a Google search to be transported into a world of social media unconditionally affirming transition as the only way for them to live happy lives—a movement cheered on by those urging to criminalize conversion therapy."
Uh-hm. You don't say.
Trans folk daring to talk on social media about how their lives have changed with transition—including in very happy ways—are now "a movement."
I wonder. Has James Esses even looked? Has he listened to trans folk talking about transition? Ever?
Trans folk daring to talk on social media about how their lives have changed with transition—including in very happy ways—are now "a movement."
I wonder. Has James Esses even looked? Has he listened to trans folk talking about transition? Ever?
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