StellaAndCrow
Yes I was just reading that - Susie Green bigging up Mermaids and complaining about GPs and CAMHS. They can't have it both ways - claim gender dysphoria is not a mental health issue, then complain about this:
"Many young people with gender dysphoria referred to CAMHS teams by their GPs are sent right back. “This is gender dysphoria, we don’t do gender dysphoria,” is often the message, says the Mermaids chief.
This is strictly accurate - gender dysphoria is no longer classed as a mental health condition, but Ms Green says this is too often a convenient excuse for struggling CAMHS services to offload anxious, depressed and, sometimes, suicidal children."
Mental health services are so overstretched they will do anything to divert people away from their services. As an example, if a child (or adult) has autism and related mental health issues, they might say "this is autism, we don't do autism", and similarly "offload anxious, depressed and, sometimes, suicidal children."
So from a TRA point of view, gender dysphoria is a bit like that. Not a mental health issue itself, but likely to be linked to mental health issues which need treatment. There is actually logic in it, even if we don't agree on whether gender dysphoria itself is a mental health issue.
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