During their time there, the Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS) experienced a massive influx of referrals, and they both witnessed a startling switch in the psychotherapy profession from patient inquiry to "affirmative" chemical treatments, specifically when "gender" was involved, and out of keeping with the broader standards of care for other psychological treatments. Susan and Marcus Evans are seasoned psychotherapists who worked at the Tavistock Clinic in the UK. Parents of trans kids recommending sex toys: Marci Bowers admitting "puberty blockers" block orgasms: Both are intimately and seriously invested in transgender medicine, and we talk about the politics that are making this already messy topic even messier. Corinna is the co-host of the Heterodorx podcast, and Denise is the founder of 4thWaveNow. Denise Caignon is the mother of a daughter who obsessed, and then renounced, a trans identity. Learn more about the Genspect conference in Killarney, Ireland: Īccount of Eliza's run-in with radical activists manhandling and shaming her for attending a university talk: Ĭorinna Cohn is a male-to-female transsexual.
This conversation was more prescient than any of us had intended.
Then a trans-identified woman tragically shot up a Christian school yesterday, and a planned "Day of Trans Vengeance" was quickly scrubbed off the internet-the consequence being that myself and Eliza were locked out of twitter until we removed all mention of it. The ladies and I mused on the increasingly radical nature of gender rhetoric, and how close to violence it is taking people. Our conversation quickly turned to the evens in New Zealand, whre Kelly-Jay Keen (Parker Posey) was assaulted by trans rights activists at her "Let Women Speak" event. This past Sunday I hosted Stella O'Malley of Gendspect and "Gender: A Wider Lens" and Eliza Mondegreen (writer and researcher into online trends surrounding gender and transition) to speak about the upcomming Genspect conference in Killarney, Ireland.
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