For children & young people who aren't Trans, forced 'exploration', 'rattling', dream analysis, & other nonsense psychobabble may only be a inordinate waste of time & money. For those who are Trans, the process of psych appointments & questioning is stigmatising in & of itself 2/
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Imagine if to be accepted as gay, or autistic, or left handed, you were made to attend monthly appointments for years where a psychologist & a psychoanalyst (often without even basic scientific qualifications), subjected you to intrusive questioning about your body & mind 3/
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We don't need to imagine. This was the reality of assessment for those conditions in the not too distant past. 'Treating' conditions of human experience with a biological underpinning with psycho analysis is ineffective & often harmful. Have we learned nothing from history? 4/
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It is way past time that the
@nhsrightcare@NHSEngland@TaviAndPort adopted a gender affirmative model to gender dysphoria & transgender adolescents, as recommended by@wpath &@TheEndoSociety & already in place for the adult service. Get Conversion Therapy out of gender care EndShow this thread
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Psychoanalysts are created by a fear of sexual inadequacy. To heal psychologically the psychoanalyst adopts a pseudoscientific framework of bald assertions and unfalsifiable hypotheses with the goal of faking competence and intelligence to cover their obvious insufficiency.
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Medically qualified psychiatrists were burning our brains out to 'cure' us of being trans like 5 mins ago, so I wouldnt take uncritical refuge in the security of medical qualifications myself. Agree that people shouldn't be forced to undergo therapy to access gendercare tho.
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Yes, agreed. Doctors can definitely be mendacious too. Of course the NHS is systemically transphobic.
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CBT is pseudo science
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It can be really helpful for some things (my OCD has responded well to it) but it isn't a cure-all by any means.
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