I haven't posted a lot about #mentalhealth, recently, but I've just come across a post that's so important: please, get a brew, read this...
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Replying to @claireOT
It's a post by a Jungian analyst, who wants to explore layers of meaning in 'gender identity'. On
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Replying to @claireOT
It's a great, central question: why are we favouring an 'identity model' over a 'mental health model' in the trans population?
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Any population of people at such high risk for comorbidity, psychological distress, and suicide, needs mental health care
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Yet activist-clinicians are keen to say trans is "normal variation" and it's "transphobic to suggest therapy is necessary.
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'normal variation' captures a sense of how a species grows through chance, 'fitness', all that stuff. It's good to be different
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but here's the key thing: 'normal variation' isn't a positive thing for humanity when it leads inexorably to sterilisation.
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and we see how 'social transition' leads inexorably to 'medical transition' which leads to sterilisation. It's pointless.
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now, what would be adaptive, would be diversity in cultural modes of dress, manner, adornment, without sterilisation!
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I've put that very point to a few activists. They simply refuse to consider it seriously. Seems so obvious, doesn't it?
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