Everyone thinks we're not skeptical enough of drugs and I think we're not nearly skeptical enough of therapy There are therapeutic modalities - whole schools of thought - from the goddamn 19th century that would've been banned for lack of evidence of efficacy if they were drugshttps://twitter.com/DadTrans/status/1287332919472730113 …
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I am not saying that there's no validity to complaints that the bar for approval and prescriptions for many drugs may be too low I am saying the bar for therapy is so, so much lower
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I am not saying there aren't any good therapists or that they have an easy job I am saying that the way people talk about it they obviously think becoming a therapist is much harder than it is, and that therapists have way more regulatory oversight than they really do
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And if you think me saying this makes me an anti-psych crank with an axe to grind then you're probably a fairly privileged person who's had the luxury to shop around for therapists and not a member of a marginalized group that's one way or another been forced into therapy
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Honestly just one story about a young trans kid being forced to narrate to some creepy old dude "What do you think about when you masturbate" should be enough, never mind hundreds
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Friendly reminder that Kenneth Zucker's clinic ran a study about the "correlation between attractiveness and dysphoria" where ADULT STRAIGHT MALE VOLUNTEERS LOOKED AT TOPLESS 12-YEAR-OLDS TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT'S THE HOT ONES WHO GO TRANS
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AND JESSE SINGAL DEFENDED THIS MOTHERFUCKER FROM THE "ANTI-SCIENCE MOB"
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