That
https://x.com/Psychgirl211/status/1808825717204922755
is a brilliant article you posted @WarriorN thank you.
There is so much included in it that it is hard to know where to begin to discuss it.
One thing that stands out is that Gender Dysphoria is a misleading word and we should speak about BAD, Body Anxiety Disorder which should be simply treated just like other anxiety disorder, and could even be a secondary diagnosis following from autism or depression.
Of only this could this be read by MPs.
These excerpts stand out particularly imo in making sense in a way that most people would understand.
Gender Dysphoria as a diagnosis also lacks what psychologists call ‘face validity’, namely is something measuring (in this case describing), what it appears to be describing? How can a six-year-old with precocious puberty, a 16-year-old autistic boy, a 30-year-old lesbian, and a 50-year-old married autogynephilic (AGP) man who secretly wears his wife’s knickers, who are all at different developmental stages and who have quite dissimilar psycho-social experiences, all be suffering from exactly the same clinical condition? This simply lacks credibility!
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Gender Dysphoria is the only psychological construct wherein the client essentially diagnoses themselves and also determines their own severity, (the Humpty Dumpty effect). The therapist is simply expected to ‘affirm’ the client’s false belief. The clinical assessment, intervention, evaluation and reformulation that occurs with every other psychological condition is not allowed. It is often even illegal. In some countries such as Brazil, Taiwan, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, New Zealand and Canada, a therapist attempting to work ethically, (ie carrying out exploratory psychotherapy such as simply asking a client why they think they are ‘trans’) can lose their practicing license, or even be convicted for practicing so-called ‘conversion therapy’.
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Interestingly,
CryMiaRiver
thinks Autogynephilia should have its own diagnostic category and that Gender Dysphoria, (such as it is), should become a secondary diagnosis to a primary diagnostic category, for example of autism or depression
https://shorturl.at/N0xsL
This is an interesting proposition and I look forward to her expanding upon this
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This strongly suggests that Gender Dysphoria is just a new, false and incredibly dangerous explanation for psychological distress arising from developmental, psychosocial and neurobiological conditions that mental health professionals have known about and which we have successfully treated forever. For example conditions and presentations such autism, learning disabilities, bullying, same-sex attraction, family dysfunction, poor peer relationships, emerging mental illness or personality disorder, not liking one’s body, being disturbed by the physical changes of puberty, etc. And also childhood sexual abuse, which, sadly, is a huge driver for later trans identification, especially amongst girls.