Thought provoking video. It's interesting that the current gengerists state people should be able to change gender whenever as it's 'fluid', but the speaker mentioned a person who reverted back to their natal sex, yet was told they weren't really transsexual, but a transvestite!
I wasn't aware that post operative suicide rates were so high, and I can't see that % decreasing given the promofion of trans as an identity and medically affirming with little questioning beforehand.
Interestingly I watched a video earlier of a councellor itemising why he left councelling a number of his points resonated with the speaker above;
Councellors in the US are encouraged to diagnose and push patients towards medication rather than allowing them to talk about/work through their problems; every mental health diagnosis in the DSMV has at least one medicine to combat/control it, but they are not always effective.
Talking and helping clients to find alternate means to cope/manage symptoms is discouraged in favour of medication/short term hospitalisation, which is more expensive and often doesn't solve the issue of keeping people from returning to hospital in mental distress again and again. He wasn't saying that medication can't help, but that it shouldn't be the start and end point.