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Therapist Exposes the ‘Pathological’ Mentality Behind the Transgender Mutilation Pipeline
Therapist Exposes the 'Pathological' Mentality Behind the Transgender Mutilation Pipeline
Dr. Jennifer Bauwens says therapists should actually try to resolve gender dysphoria rather than embracing transgender "medicine."
www.dailysignal.com
Transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones represent downstream effects of a basic failure in therapy that sets patients up for long-term harm, warns a former trauma clinician who now crafts policy to protect people from these experimental “treatments.”
Therapists who try to treat people with gender dysphoria—the painful and persistent identification with the gender opposite one’s biological sex—often recommend patients undergo medical interventions to make a man appear female or vice versa. This represents a lack of hope, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens told The Daily Signal.
he decision to “medicalize” a patient, rather than trying to treat underlying psychological trauma, traces back to a therapist’s lack of faith in his or her own abilities.
“If you really have hope that your method could change [the underlying issues], you’d keep it in your clinical space, but the fact that there isn’t a lot of hope for seeing these people change who are struggling with this distress, it’s like we have to outsource it to other ways of handling it,” argued Bauwens, director of American values at America First Policy Institute.
“I was trained to think that if I don’t have hope for a client, that’s time for a referral,” the former clinician explained.
“Goals of therapy should be, first and foremost, let’s reduce the distress that people are feeling over their bodies,” Bauwens argued. “It should not be, ‘Let’s transform their bodies to look like something else.’ We need to be about helping people to form their identity in what their biological sex is.”
“We don’t need people to become somebody else—that’s actually pathological,” she added.
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Combating ‘Social Transition’
Last week, Bauwens released model legislation to protect children from “social transition,” the process of using female pronouns for a boy who identifies as a girl and treating him as a girl—or vice versa.
Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen B. Levine has argued that social transition “is a powerful psychotherapeutic intervention that radically changes outcomes,” making patients far more likely to take “puberty blockers,” cross-sex hormones, or full genital surgeries.
Bauwens cites research showing that without this intervention, 65% to 94% of minors who suffer from gender dysphoria will ultimately grow to resolve their discomfort with their sex.
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Commentary:
I think the profession of psychiatry has too many sickos working in the field. Not all, I'm sure. But many.
I remember back in the 80s it seemed like the big message for everybody was "Your father sexually abused you. You may not think so. You may not remember it. But work with me and I will dredge up all kinds of horrible memories of your father sexually abusing you."
For decades a big message has been: "Your mother ruined your life. Oh, you disagree, but I will explain to you how your mother ruined your life."
Couples therapy? "It's the man's fault. Divorce him, honey! You'll be so much better off when you get that loser out of your life. He's abusive, you know."
Depressed? Out of sorts? "Let me throw some SSRIs at you. They won't help much and they may make you suicidal or even murderous, but I highly recommend them."
While most recently they've been suggesting that using sharp instruments to mutilate your genitals will make you a happier person.
IMO, it's an overwhelmingly harmful profession and most of the practitioners seem to need more psychological help than their patients.
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