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Ky Schevers
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Ky Schevers

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Humyn-born-humyn passing as a transmasc butch dyke. Former detrans rad fem. Fun fact: radical feminsim does not cure transmasculinity!

reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com
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    1. Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

      Ky Schevers Retweeted Mallory Moore

      Informative thread on the history of trying to "cure" trans people using psychotherapy. I started researching this stuff back when I was detrans and what I learned played a big role in shifting my views.https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1351347418332278785 …

      Ky Schevers added,

      As research studies indicate, psychotherapy has not been successful in reconciling the gender identity of the transsexual with anatomy. Nevertheless psychosocial treatment is essential, since gender dysphoria is a stressful and confusing condition potentially requiring an irreversible decision and sex-reassignment is a difficult process involving adjustments in virtually every area of life.

Because gender dysphoria typically develops early in childhood, the clients first visit with a therapist is usually preceded by years of unhappiness and confusion. These clients often experience a remarkable sense of relief after the first few sessions with the therapist, as this is an opportunity, in some cases the first, to express and sort out confused feelings with someone who takes them seriously.
      Mallory Moore @Chican3ry
      Re the claims by Gender Critical Therapists to use psychotherapy to help people "reconcile with their bodies", this is from back in 1977 Young trans ppl have existed through the history of trans psych care. Conversion therapy has been *known to be pointless* since at least 1977 pic.twitter.com/ZZ3mxRrmHf
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    2. Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

      Sometime I ought go over my collection of articles and notes and share what I found. Basically, it's much the same as Mallory demonstrates here, therapists tried very hard with little success.

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      Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

      There's few things I'd add to this discussion. The first is case studies of "pseudo-transsexuals" treated with psychotherapy. These were the kinds of people the gender clinics tried to weed out with gatekeeping. Many of them were judged to be self-hating gay people.

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        2. Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

          And the second is the Case Western Reserve gender clinic, which seemed to be the most enthusiastic about pushing therapy onto trans people. That clinic was founded by Stephen Levine, who's recently given expert testimony against pediatric transition in multiple court cases.

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        3. Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

          Another psychiatrist connected with that clinic was Leslie Lothstein, who saw psychotherapy as the treatment of choice for gender dysphoria and wrote a bunch of articles about that. He also wrote a whole book arguing that trans men are mentally ill and need therapy.

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        4. Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

          Even Lothstein recognized that therapy didn't "cure" many of his patients but he thought they were just too "sick" to be helped by it. In his view, some people were just so far gone that medical transition was the only thing that helped them.

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        5. Ky Schevers‏ @reclaimingtrans Jan 19

          It's stunning how committed some people are to viewing us as mentally ill that even when they can't deny that medical transition works better than therapy they turn that into a sign of how psychologically damaged we are.

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