Thread by @TaniaAMarshall

Notes from my book: Receiving many messages, DM’s & emails over ‘safeguarding’. I have worked in this industry for 30 years. Safeguarding chapter: #MentalHeath professionals are human & make mistakes, because they are human. They are first & fore-mostly trained in #safeguarding

Their ethos is to ‘Do No Harm’. Most people don’t understand what this means. #Therapists & mental health professionals disagree on many issues. They are divided on what safeguarding means to them #Childsafety & #childprotection have always been fraught by #childsafety challenges

In 2015, I began raising #safeguarding concerns with My regulatory board & the #psychology organisations. These were serious concerns. Over those years, I was ignored, brushed off, #silenced or told it wasn’t a problem. The Australian Senate held an #inquiry into our regulatory

#health body. They invited me to make a submission. This was the third inquiry into our #health regulatory board. Some great recommendations came out of that inquiry but were not put into place. The safeguarding concerns continued #ethics

In 2020, I made the decision to resign from my regulatory board over the #transgender #medicalisation of #autistic #children and other serious concerns. The #Australian Senate made the decision to have a fourth inquiry into our regulartory board.

They invited me to make a submission. I did and this was recently accepted and I now have ‘Parliamentary privilege’. That means that I cannot be harassed, bullied, cancelled, threatened, silenced, given death threats for telling the Senate everything I told them #safeguarding👇🏻

The Senate inquiry takes place in March 2022. I hope to testify. In the end, it may or may not make a difference, but for me, it makes a difference. The profession is broken. The fields of #psychology & mental health have become deeply corrupted & the psychology organisations

& boards have betrayed Heath professionals The senate knows this #Therapists have been injured by their own organisations, boards, colleagues, peers & are under great moral & ethical distress. #Psychology has been broken by a ‘woke’ culture due to a
Severe departure from their

own code of ethics & guidelines. This is a betrayal to health professionals globally. This has caused deep hurt & betrayal within the entire #mentalhealth system, within & between various #clinicians & groups & much confusion about ethics & safeguarding. Some professionals are

following their #psychology organisation guidelines Some professionals are staying in the profession, but unhappy with their organisations or speaking out…IF they can. #Psychologists have become divided, infight & exclude each other, kicking them out of groups

their own professional Facebook support groups. Because they raised Safeguarding concerns. Many #professionals are being cancelled, harassed, bullied, been doxxed, have received #deaththreats & had transactivists make complaints about them to their boards. This is NEVER ok.

Some psychologists make vexatious complaints about other psychologists. There are all kinds of #healers There are amazing #therapists in every country who have made great personal and professional sacrifices over ‘trans kids’. What I have seen over many years from Day 1 & learnt

From interviewing many health professionals & therapists in multiple countries is a sad theme. The therapists who are whistle blowing or want to are not supported. They are not heard. They are being weaponised. By politics. By groups. By activists. They see therapists leaving

Their careers only to be hijacked by groups, politics & activists & therapists. They are being told what they can & cannot do. This is not ok. If you want you hold a parent group, do it. If you want to keep statistics of something, do it. If you want to help the kids, do it.

No-one should tell you that you can’t.
The #therapists I talk to who want to leave their professions, whistleblow, help the ‘trans-kids’, are NOT doing so & we shouldn’t be mad at them. This is why: their boards & organisations are corrupt, they have no support from their own

profession, colleagues,
Peers. The ‘trans-kids’ area is highly politicised. Not all therapists agree. Nor should they. The Therapists who want to help transkids don’t want to be politicised or involved in politics. They don’t want groups telling them what they can or cannot do

Their training was that therapy is devoid of the therapists own religion, politics, ideology. They watch and see what’s happening in this space. They see the politics, the safeguarding failures, money involved in the trans affirming, trans exploratory & trans detrans industry.

They see the nastiness, infighting & treatment of therapists & whilst they want to whistle blow, the stakes are too high. I don’t blame them. When they speak Out they are attacked & unsupported. There are few supervisors or collegial assistance for them & this is a concern

They are not going to leave their psychological support system when they see therapists who have jumped ship excluded by other therapists. I don’t blame them. As I write about what is happening to the profession of #psychology, I have learnt a lot. I have learnt from my

Own personal experiences & a large group of #therapists. I am telling their stories. In Hearing & telling the stories of the #mentalhealth therapists around the world, the complexities are numerous. There is no easy answer to this problem. It existed before #wokeness

There are amazing therapists in every country who have made great sacrifices over ‘trans kids’. What I have seen over many years from Day 1 & learnt is in order to fix a problem, the therapists must go above politics, stay true to ethics, support therapists who want to jump ship

I used to think we could fix this toxic problem from within our system but now, as time goes on, as I interview therapists, families, parents, I now don’t believe that’s possible. The ‘system’ is sick and it will take you down with it, if you let it. For many, it isn’t worth it

Therapists should not be told that they can or cannot do something. Of course they can. No one should be cancelling or mocking safeguarders. How did we get into this mess? Because, we didn’t listen to the #safeguarders The red

Flags and the #warnings were there. No one took them seriously. Globally, the safeguarders are mocked, made fun of, not taken seriously, go unheard, demonised and accused of all kinds of things. This is never ok. When an issue is raised by a safeguarder, it should be taken

Seriously and resolved. We got here because #safeguarders are not taken seriously. We have a 4th Senate Inquiry into the treatment of health professionals this March. Let’s see what happens 🙏✨