The Hidden Dangers of Gender Affirmation Therapy: Why It Might Not Be the Solution You Think
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As someone who deeply cares about people suffering from gender confusion and dysphoria, it's natural to hear the term "gender affirmation therapy" and think it sounds promising. I share your morals and desires, and initially, I thought the same. But before endorsing or participating in it, I needed to ensure it was something I genuinely supported. Unfortunately, it is not. Here’s why.
People questioning their gender, who feel they don't fit into the gender they were assigned at birth, are fairly common. However, those who require gender transition to alleviate these feelings are rare. Despite appearances, the prevalence of transgender individuals is much lower than the visibility of gender non-conforming people. These individuals often do not require medical intervention. Like gay individuals, they can lead healthy lives by simply living authentically.
The rise of gender affirmation therapy, however, has introduced the influence of the medical-industrial complex into our personal decisions in unprecedented ways. Gender affirmation therapy, a medical treatment, often nudges individuals toward gender transition if they express any uncertainty about their gender identity. This therapy doesn't challenge or explore the reasons behind these feelings but rather focuses on facilitating the transition.
Making gender affirmation therapy the primary approach for those questioning their gender resembles mad scientist-level experimentation. These individuals need more comprehensive help than just surgery and medication. Medicalizing one's gender and body should be avoided because it leads to an endless cycle. Gender affirmation therapy does not fully inform individuals of the potential harms and instead steers them towards medicalization.
These practitioners often do not have the individual's best interests at heart. Instead, they aim to modify and medicalize the body in ways that can be harmful and irreversible. The powerful figures driving this agenda are often more interested in profits than in the well-being of individuals. The rise of Medicaid and other programs has been exploited, turning gender affirmation therapy into a lucrative scam.
The existing system for gender reassignment surgery and therapy for gender dysphoria was adequate. Opportunists have capitalized on this moment of vulnerability and the general lack of education among the public. Gender affirmation therapy, as it stands, is a misguided approach that ultimately harms those it purports to help.
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Respectfully, this is a slippery slope to full blown transphobia.
Do you have anything to back this up or are you spending too much time in r/gender critical?
I wholeheartedly agree. In the vast majority of children with confused feelings about their gender grow out of it, experience relief through psychotherapy, or turn out to just be homosexual. These opportunists worp a girl struggling with being a tomboy convincing her she needs to be a boy because she feels awkward around other girls instead of affirming her for the way she is. Or they convince an effeminate boy he really needs to be a girl instead of affirming him for the way he his. This whole “gender affirmation” therapy is anything but. It was Obamacare that first covered sex reassignment treatments and forced insurance companies to cover it as well releasing these money-grubbing vultures on our most vulnerable, and the current administration who seeks to make illegal the very viewpoint you have.
Can you back these assertions of “gender-affirming therapy pushing transition onto people” like at all? All I see is vague gesturing at distrust of medicine without anything to back it up. In fact, taking therapy from someone who’s experienced in gender issues prior to medical transition should be something you’d want, right?