Conversion therapy is going by a new name, Gender Exploratory Therapy. Their association GETA, is a relatively small and fringe group of therapists, seeking to wield power as the alternative to gender affirming care and the WPATH (World Profession Association for Transgender Health) standards of care. Just this past week,
Thank you for this clear piece. It's sickening how transphoebia is veiled and packaged as "support" to trans folks. I'm with Adin, grateful for this knowledge. My eyes are a little more open.
i am grateful to read this. it's information i need, though i no longer practice psychotherapy, to understand more fully the threats to gender affirmation for trans people. i hadn't thought about the deviousness of looking for every other possible reason for depression/dysphoria than trans phobia, as though that could not be the cause. a kind of determined blindness that enables those therapists to proceed in unaffirming practices...
Thank you for this clear piece. It's sickening how transphoebia is veiled and packaged as "support" to trans folks. I'm with Adin, grateful for this knowledge. My eyes are a little more open.
i am grateful to read this. it's information i need, though i no longer practice psychotherapy, to understand more fully the threats to gender affirmation for trans people. i hadn't thought about the deviousness of looking for every other possible reason for depression/dysphoria than trans phobia, as though that could not be the cause. a kind of determined blindness that enables those therapists to proceed in unaffirming practices...