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What Therapists Get Wrong with Adolescent Gender Dysphoria
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Sasha Ayad, LPC
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Sasha Ayad, LPC
@SashaLPC
Therapist; Decade of experience w gender dysphoria. "Gender" is a metaphor. Let's exhibit more wisdom, discernment, and compassion with dysphoric youth.
Joined November 2016
- When a therapist “affirms” a child’s new identity (calling her a boy’s name and calling her “him”), he won’t get to meet the hurt young woman who is suffering - the girl who is using the boy persona as a shield She is trying to make herself disappear And it works when the
- Someone tell me why FtM transmen make up approximately 75 percent of young trans people but almost all media coverage of trans issues focuses on MTF transwomen?
- Thank you @nytimes 1/3 "So to end more straightforwardly, I will make a prediction: Within not too short a span of time, not only conservatives but most liberals will recognize that we have been running an experiment on trans-identifying youth without good or certain evidence,
- Reminder: Never take advice from anyone who says Dylan Mulvaney is AGPHere is Dylan Mulvaney on The Price is Right
- The greatest ruse of gender identity ideology is the way it attempts to obfuscate basic material reality. It’s Orwellian to claim that boys are girls and that girls are boys. In this clip, a man says it’s a slur to call boys what they are: boys. It is NOT A SLUR to tell the
00:00 - #OlympicBoxing 🧵 cultural context and the role of the IOC (and whether Khalif “knows he’s a man”) First off, I am hesitant to analyze someone else’s life in this forum, but on the public world stage of the Olympics, Iman Khalif’s status has become a point of debate so I’ll say
- 1/ Gender dysphoria is just one particular way that anxiety, fixation, and fantasy can manifest and obsess a person. GD means imagining one’s “truest self” and being lead by the fantasy of happiness one thinks they’ll attain in that transformed physical state.
- Plowing through emails today. I just read 3 different emails from parents with whom I've consulted with in the past. All 3 of their kids desisted after years of gender distress, and are now thriving, happy, and at peace with themselves. Onwards and upwards!
- Replying to @DonovanCleckleyThis is literally so disgusting and enraging - I wouldn't even know where to begin responding to this.
- WOAH! Caitlyn Jenner, perhaps due to having ACTUALLY been a champion athlete, understands that there is a real, tangible, and undisputable advantage male-bodied people have in sports. I'm really impressed that CJ has taken such a reasonable, non-woke stance on this issue!I didn’t expect to get asked this on my Saturday morning coffee run, but I’m clear about where I stand. It’s an issue of fairness and we need to protect girls’ sports in our schools. tmz.com/2021/05/01/cai…
- Want to avoid medicalization? Don't socially transition your child... It's nearly impossible to socially transition your child, "affirm" them in their new gender identity, and later try to draw the line at medicalization Social transition by adults leads to medical
- So how many lesbians do we have left?
