Genspect, an anti-trans hate group made up of transphobic parents and conversion therapists, is fishing for comments on the new @wpath SOC 8. They object to how the SOC doesn’t mention the fake disorder “ROGD” and want more gatekeeping around pediatric transition.
So basically, transphobic parents who want to control their children's medical decisions (often well into adulthood) and conversions therapists with a financial incentive to restrict access to trans-affirming healthcare are trying to sabotage the @wpath SOC8.
Trans people of all ages deserve bodily autonomy & quality healthcare. Groups like Genspect are attacking our self-determination & access to resources we need to thrive. I encourage those willing to submit comments affirming trans autonomy & well-being. wpath.org/soc8
I'm not going to spread Genspect's propaganda for them but those interested can find the flyer they're using to promote their @wpath SOC8 sabotage campaign by checking out their twitter account. It's absurd that we have to deal with this shit when all we want is good healthcare!
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TERFs are trying to sabotage the new @wpath SOC. WHRC is a hate group that calls for the elimination of "transgenderism" and trans civil rights and accuses trans women of being "dangerous perverts" and "parasites". Now they're attacking our bodily autonomy & access to healthcare.
I expect that @wpath is going to receive a lot of transphobic and transmisogynistic comments from TERF groups like WHRC & pro-conversion "therapy" groups like GENSPECT. This just another form of harassment, like the protests outside of clinics. It's a show of force/intimidation.
Anti-trans hate groups are mobilizing to eliminate our access to medical transition and healthcare. This isn't about "protecting women's rights" or "protecting children". This is cis people feeling entitled to control and dominate trans people, to erase us from society.
Since people are talking about anti-trans books being sold on @amazon, let me remind everyone that they are also selling a DIY conversion therapy manual for transphobic parents who want to force their trans child to "desist". reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/tel…
Here's thread I made about the book when it first came out, including screenshots. @amazon took the book down temporarily but later reinstated it.
@amazon also sells "Always Erin", an anti-trans "children's" book that tries to teach children that being trans is caused by trauma and "Transing Our Children" which is yet another book scaremongering about young trans people and "gender ideology".
Watching people promote "exploratory gender therapy" for trans youth while I process how the conversion practices I engaged in hurt me and fucked my life up is uh, not particularly fun. By which I mean I'm absolutely terrified about young trans people getting really hurt.
Some of the conversion practices I engaged in are similar to some forms of "exploratory gender therapy", namely trying to link gender dysphoria and being trans to trauma. The conversion practices I tried caused me immense suffering that I'm still recovering from years later.
Coming to see my transition, trans identity & gender dysphoria as being linked to past trauma increased my depression, self-hatred, shame, and suicidal ideation. It didn't help me heal from my past trauma & it didn't "cure" me from being trans, it just traumatized me further.
People who go on about "listening to detransitioners" stop listening if you retransition and/or talk about how detransitioning hurt you. They don't give a fuck about people who detransition. They just want to use us and they stop "caring" when we stop being useful.
Hell, they stop listening when you say something they don't want to hear. Which detrans stories get into the mainstream media & debates about transition are very limited. So much gets filtered out because it doesn't fit transphobic narratives that justify control of trans people.
So many people who loved my writing when they could use my detransition story to "prove" how harmful transition are now treat me like I'm "crazy" & dismiss my experiences since I started talking about how detransitioning hurt me. They never cared about my suffering or well-being.
The first communities for detrans women weren't places for people who realized they "weren't really trans" but for AFAB people who believed their trans identity was rooted in trauma and misogyny and were looking for "alternative treatments for gender dysphoria".
They were "support groups" for people assigned female who experienced a trans identity they didn't want and were trying to overcome so they could "accept that they were women". "Reconciling with being female" was the "treatment" and the goal of being in such spaces.
It was assumed that members of such groups experienced dysphoria and the urge to transition and that they were using the spaces to deal with those feelings without transition or living as a trans person. We were "helping" each other live as women instead of as trans people.
I knew transphobic detrans activists and therapists who talked about how conversion therapy bans could ban "exploratory therapy" by mistake and guess what, that's bullshit they sprout to win over the liberals and keep anti-trans conversion therapy legal and socially permissible.
Therapists in particular often need to be careful with how they talk about what kind of therapy they want to do on trans people because they could face serious consequences if recognized as a conversion therapist. They're trying to avoid those consequences.
Course a lot of conversion therapists and pro-conversion therapy activists don't see what they're promoting as conversion therapy because they believe their methods really work. That's why you also have to look at what they're really arguing for & compare it to other cases of CT.