Your journey is a harrowing one. Your steadfast support of your child touches me in the tender places where my own mother failed to do the same when I was a child and the scars that left on my psyche and wellbeing. I am a new MFT and terrified about facing the backlash should I be expected to fast track a child or young adult into hormon…
Your journey is a harrowing one. Your steadfast support of your child touches me in the tender places where my own mother failed to do the same when I was a child and the scars that left on my psyche and wellbeing. I am a new MFT and terrified about facing the backlash should I be expected to fast track a child or young adult into hormone or medical transition (which I will refuse as it violates my ethics of not harming my clients, not to mention, rushing anything in therapy is antithetical to healing and/or recovery). I am curious how 'gender' therapists have any business providing education on hormone or medical transition to clients. This is outside of the scope of psychotherapy, though, I suppose there may be new certificates people can obtain to allow for such a thing. This therapist you describe sounds like she is not challenging her biases or self-scrutinizing to ensure her self-of-the-therapist is in check. She sounds highly unethical and, having been in a grad cohort in the last few years, many of the younger aspiring therapists specifically expressed wanting to work with trans kids and help fast track their transitions. No questions about it from the faculty around context, assessing for biopsychosocial factors, systemic factors, or comorbidities. Instead, anything trans was celebrated and unquestioned. My code of ethics even has a statement that contradictorily states we should 'do no harm' and also not explore gender because, to do so would be akin to conversion therapy. The fact that curiosity and slowing down are deemed 'transphobic,' makes it so that therapists who are concerned and who actually no not want to harm their clients must use an alias and find online chat opportunities to explore this subject — for fear of being cancelled and shunned in the real world.
I believe you are correct, that this will someday be considered a huge medical scandal. And it breaks my heart that the guinea pigs are vulnerable kids and young people and their panicked parents who want to do what is "right" and the noise of the trans movement is such that reason and a regulated nervous system are not allowed prior to pushing kids into hormones and medical transition. It reminds me of when people get a cancer diagnosis and, regardless of if the cancer is slow growing or not, a patient is rushed into the chemicals and surgeries and given NO time to process, step back and consider all options... its is all about fear mongering.
I am an MFT and happy to talk with you as well, I have been in practicing since 2002 in NY and CA and I have seen it all. Maybe we can make a subgroup for therapist? - Jamie
Your journey is a harrowing one. Your steadfast support of your child touches me in the tender places where my own mother failed to do the same when I was a child and the scars that left on my psyche and wellbeing. I am a new MFT and terrified about facing the backlash should I be expected to fast track a child or young adult into hormone or medical transition (which I will refuse as it violates my ethics of not harming my clients, not to mention, rushing anything in therapy is antithetical to healing and/or recovery). I am curious how 'gender' therapists have any business providing education on hormone or medical transition to clients. This is outside of the scope of psychotherapy, though, I suppose there may be new certificates people can obtain to allow for such a thing. This therapist you describe sounds like she is not challenging her biases or self-scrutinizing to ensure her self-of-the-therapist is in check. She sounds highly unethical and, having been in a grad cohort in the last few years, many of the younger aspiring therapists specifically expressed wanting to work with trans kids and help fast track their transitions. No questions about it from the faculty around context, assessing for biopsychosocial factors, systemic factors, or comorbidities. Instead, anything trans was celebrated and unquestioned. My code of ethics even has a statement that contradictorily states we should 'do no harm' and also not explore gender because, to do so would be akin to conversion therapy. The fact that curiosity and slowing down are deemed 'transphobic,' makes it so that therapists who are concerned and who actually no not want to harm their clients must use an alias and find online chat opportunities to explore this subject — for fear of being cancelled and shunned in the real world.
I believe you are correct, that this will someday be considered a huge medical scandal. And it breaks my heart that the guinea pigs are vulnerable kids and young people and their panicked parents who want to do what is "right" and the noise of the trans movement is such that reason and a regulated nervous system are not allowed prior to pushing kids into hormones and medical transition. It reminds me of when people get a cancer diagnosis and, regardless of if the cancer is slow growing or not, a patient is rushed into the chemicals and surgeries and given NO time to process, step back and consider all options... its is all about fear mongering.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I am an MFT and happy to talk with you as well, I have been in practicing since 2002 in NY and CA and I have seen it all. Maybe we can make a subgroup for therapist? - Jamie