Thread by @RoisinMichaux

Last talk of the @genspect conference by @LisaMarchiano 1/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

Difference between young people going to war, or getting a tattoo is that we never tell people that this will solve their problems. Detransitioners blame themselves, but @LisaMarchiano tells detransitioners that adults told them this would solve their problems. 2/

Talks about a woman who helped her daughter transition and then started to get dizzy and disorientated when out for walks - the result of her falsification of reality, says @LisaMarchiano 3/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

Another young woman was planning her suicide. She had quickly done major interventions after coming out as trans. She was very isolated, couldn't accept being a lesbian. She had lots of comorbidities, had been eg. anorexic, OCD. 4/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

@LisaMarchiano used this case to describe the gender-affirming model of care. She gives a definition of the model of care, as described by ideologue, Diane Ehrensaft: "It is not for us to tell, but for children to say," 5/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

The affirmative model of care leaves psychosocial issues unadressed, it rests on a false premise, encourages patients to make decisions based on a belief system that denies reality. 6/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

@LisaMarchiano: "The body becomes the vehicle for metaphorical expression" 7/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

Quotes a detransitioned woman: "it was away for me to escape my reality as a homosexual woman." But she realised removing her uterus and ovaries didn't make her any less of a woman - it was just castration. 8/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

That which cannot be changed: coming to terms with bodily reality is a major part of adolescence, quotes @LisaMarchiano (didn't catch who she's quoting). She's now quoting lots of Jung, can't keep up. 9/
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"The body denies their convictions" - @LisaMarchiano 10/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

What is (transgenderism) trying to cure in the collective? It locates psychic pain in the body and attempts to medicalise it and treat it, says @LisaMarchiano 11/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

Are we unconsciously seeking a new way to conceptualise spirit? Does transness offer this? A way to overcome our corporeal form? An attempt to find the divine hidden in the new? If this is the corrective offered, we should be informed - and stay in touch with reality. 12/

Final Q&A. Alasdair Gunn asks @elizamondegreen about a comment she once made about @wpath, about there being no link between the abstract and the human level. No question of ethics, she says, and it makes her grateful for the last few days at this event. 13/#GenspectBiggerPicture

What to offer the kids left hanging after the closure of GIDS? someone asks. Plain old-fashioned therapy, says @LisaMarchiano 14/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

Parents are the experts on their own children. Every single era has had issues to contend with re raising children. She says we have to know as much as we can about what's happening - we won't get blindsided like parents 10 years ago did. 15/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

@LisaMarchiano says "get them off the internet." 16/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

One participant comes back to the talk about shame - and wants to point out that the people pushing these fanatical ideas have no shame. @jburgo55 thinks they are constantly attacking and degrading as a way not to have to deal with their own damage. 17/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

He says we are taking the shame out of everything except disagreeing with this dogma. 18/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

We are losing the language for shame kids feel when going through adolescence, says @elizamondegreen. The kids feel the shame, but the message is that they *shoudn't feel shame and so there is something wrong if they do. 19/ #GenspectBiggerPicture

@stellaomalley3 says guilt is an opportunity for a better self, but it can turn into corrosive shame. 20/

People don't like it when you make them face reality, says the Jamaican man who made everyone laugh with his "first-world problems" quip on day 1. #GenspectBiggerPicture 21/

Carrie Mendoza, from the audience: I saw doctors writing opioid prescriptions just to avoid confronting patients. What's going on now is similar. Bonuses/salaries are based on patient satisfaction scores. (Absurd!) 22/

Audience member: teach your kids how to think critically. 23/ #GenspectBiggerPicture