Thread by @TaniaAMarshall

Did you know you can sue your health professionals on this basis: Standards of Care WPATH (v7, 2012) clause that "role of mental health professionals includes making reasonably sure that gender dysphoria is not secondary to or better accounted for by other diagnoses".

If your health professionals failed to diagnose your Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, trauma, sexual abuse, trauma, family violence, etc., and diagnosed your Gender dysphoria as primary, rather than secondary 👉 HIRE a lawyer, DM me or email me please

Given the emphasis in psychologists education and training on evidence based research methodology and science, argument that were is particularly problematic for psychologists. @austpsych and psychologists will argue its popular opinion to medicalise children. That argument

fails in light of safeguarding and psychological training and education. This should be addressed in the courts. Peer professional opinion cannot be relied on for the purposes of this section if the court considers that the opinion is 'irrational' (against research and science)

Psychologists should be concerned. I certainly was and still am. I believe it is a matter of time before an Australian psychologist is sued. Why? Let me counts the ways. 1. The evidence for the theory that gender is innate & immutable is strenuously challenged
by other research

Psychologists are supposed to able to rationally assess the evidence for that theory & understand that it is a 'theory', but not an established fact: while the evidence suggests that gender is influenced by biological/genetic factors, it does NOT demonstrate that these

solely account for a person to identify as trans. 2. There is a 'circular reasoning' fallacy, which a psychologist should be able to recognise, in the
belief that because all trans people will state that they are trans, therefore all people who say they are trans are trans.

Thus there is a need for research to identify risk factors for a person stating they are trans when their symptoms can be better accounted for by other
diagnoses, and this demonstrates the need for an assessment.

Reports from detransitioners I am providing therapy to reveal that many wish they had been assessed & given more options before beginning medical transition. They also wished they had been given their Autism/ADHD/ESSENCE assessments & diagnoses Now they receive them from me

after the fact. Really? This is a complete safeguarding failure.

Moving on, Many clinicians world wide are challenging the rapid onset presentation, and now supported by @KLBfax #keirabell in the UK where she sued the NHS @TaviAndPort GIDS because there was not enough challenge to her presentation of gender dysphoria. She won 🥇 #shero

Having said this, Australian Psychologists & other @Ahpra health professionals remain oblivious to the legal, ethical risks and lawsuits on the way, not withstanding a moral conscience and the duty of care to #donoharm

The argument that all people that present with complex mental health problems who are trans, ARE trans is faulty logic and psychologists should know this. The argument that Transgender children are misdiagnosed with #autism #Adhd #essences is also faulty logic and non-sense

Naturally, the general public unfamiliar with psychology, Child development, the teenage brain, Neuro developmental disorders, Autism and/or gender Dysphoria cannot understand the confusion

Given the psychological research on social factors, Social contagion, Psychic epidemics, trends, social psychology, mass media studies, persuasion marketing, it is irresponsible for any psychologist or psychologist Organisation to ignore this

It is irrational black & white thinking of @AustPsych to categorically make a claim that social factors have no influence & to hand-slap or silence any psychologist (citing the research) who disagrees with them. All psychologists should be aware of these factors in their

Undergraduate training. To flat out claim categorically that social factors have nothing to do with high rates of Gender Dysphoria in girls, without a body of research to support that claim, is incompetent at best and unethical at worst.

Lawyers should be aware there is NO research that has found that the rapidly increasing numbers of gender dysphoria are NOT due to social factors and/or social contagion. Lawyers should challenge this because any ethical psychologist knows better.

Other legal points: psychologists in performing ethical care and ethical assessment should be open to the possible social factors, as the Internet and social media are now children/ teenager’s parents That psychologists were not or did not consider social factors is a legal point

Moving on, in my work with #detrans they speak about being heavily influenced by social media (reddit, tumbler, TikTok, and other platforms and websites) and friendship groups. Many has no friends. Some were children targeted by adult transactivists. This is another legal point

Who are these ‘adults’ & what is a potential legal standpoint here? Can a child/teen/adult sue their own parents for allowing this? Can they sue their health professionals involved? The Keira Bell judgement, whilst focused on ‘informed consent’ has paved the way & was necessary

This brings us to Gender Non Conforming and my work on #autisticgirls #autism & related neurotypes. A large group (not all) of autistic individuals are GNC or what we knew as ‘Gender Bending’ in the 80’s. Many of the famous 80’s GB’s either are or may be Aspergers/Gifted Autism

So this is NOT a new thing. Any ethical Autism expert knows that autism, adhd, the neurotypes, the vulnerabilities, thinking styles knows this is vulnerability, safeguarding, ethical, moral & legal issue. This is why Professor Christopher Gillberg @GillbergCentre testified

Which raises legal Q: did the psychologist assess competently, perform differential diagnosis?Were they trained in the assessment & diagnosis of Autism? Are they trained competently in females Autism? Are they trained competently in female ADHD? 2e? Essences? FASD?Uneven profile?

All lawyers should investigate these questions?’. If a psychologist is ignorant or ignoring the autistic brain, child development, immature prefrontal cortex, enlarged amygdala’s, autistic thinking styles, much lower social & emotional age (than chronological age), they cannot

Hide behind @AustPsych statement, they cannot remain thinking that they will be protected by their liability insurance. This is a serious safeguarding failure and lawyers should consider this, especially in the light of informed consent #lawsuits