1/ This journalist said he'd been cured of his trauma in 2011 via violent sex. A decade later, he again says he's been cured, now via major, risky surgery. I think there are some really fraught journalistic challenges inherent to covering the first-person accounts of folks who 
2/ have dealt with profound trauma and/or other mental-health problems. One key thing you'll be taught in any Psych 101 course is that individuals often don't have a great grasp on what treatments will help them or why. Very tricky to find the right journalistic line to walk here
3/ Similar dynamic in a NYT Mag article about a very disturbed young person in 2019. I feel like anything involving gender identity is held to a different evidentiary standard and that this doesn't necessarily help people.
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jessesingal.substack.com/p/what-does-it…
4/ Gonna talk about this a bit in 22 minutes on @getcallin, plus take whatever questions you have about this or anything else
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5/ Author of the NY Mag piece also wrote, in GQ in 2019, that he'd been more or less cured of his mental-health/identity problems by hormones and top surgery. Not long after that, he needed more surgery so desperately he poured his life savings into it.
6/ Obviously people will be pissed at me for pointing this out, but the idea that it's 'affirming' or 'validating' to tell someone with such severe mental-health problems that more and more serious physical interventions are always a good idea... that is the opposite of decency.
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