You need to know about a new conversion therapy: "gender exploratory therapy," which "explores" reasons for dysphoria until finding one that convinces a trans person to no longer be trans.
Treatments are held JUST out of reach.
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https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/gender-exploratory-therapy-a-new
Note: there is no STOP point, they keep going til a trans person is "no longer trans.
This conversion therapy is pushed everywhere from Texas courts to UK health panels to recently, Florida's medicaid ban for trans people. Here is the Florida's AHCA report relying on GET.
Things GET practitioners do:
- Blaming trans identity on past trauma, OCD, depression
- Stating trans identity is a fetish and should be treated as such
- Keeping blockers, HRT "just out of reach" while "we explore this other possible reason for being trans"
The goal: To get a trans person as deep into puberty so that they feel transition is impossible and "desist" - stop identifying as trans.
The fake-science anti-trans org Society for Evidence in Gender Medicine, which pushes GET heavily, pushes forcing puberty.
Genspect, which also pushes gender exploratory therapy, explicitly calls for "100% desistance," includes Our Duty in its support group network.
This group calls for 100% desistance - an end to ALL trans youth.
Trans identification will NEVER be an endpoint of GET.
This therapy has deeper ties to Christian conversion therapy and is reminiscent of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which similarly try to delay abortion until its no longer possible.
Groups like the Catholic Psychotherapy Association link out to GET:
Feeling depressed, suicidal, and retraumatized after gender exploratory therapy is not surprising. Jack Turban's research shows that trans people exposed to conversion therapy are 2x as likely to attempt suicide.
This cross-sectional survey study examines the association of childhood and lifetime recalled exposure of gender identity conversion efforts by both secular and religious professionals with adverse mental health outcomes in adulthood within the previous year and during their lifetime.
When live tweeting the hearings in Texas on Greg Abbott defining gender affirming care as child abuse, I noted the State argued for Gender Exploratory Therapy as an alternative therapy for gender dypshoria.
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1502783881749180416
“Yesterday in Doe v. Texas, the State fronted an argument for "alternative therapies" for dysphoria as a defense of their treatment of transition as child abuse. "Gender exploratory therapy" is one of the most common cited "alternative therapy" by proponents of this legislation.”
Just recently, the NHS in the UK was found to be pushing Gender Exploratory therapy. There has been some indication that this will become an acceptable therapy in the UK.
Researcher
@ButNotTheCity
has covered Gender Exploratory Therapy heavily. I highly suggest if you are interested in exploring the topic more, reading their in depth article. She challenges all GET practitioners with several questions:
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I leave all of you with the testimonials I solicited from my followers on their experiences with GET:
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1605222777061244929
“Question for my audience: Were you exposed to Gender Exploratory Therapy? This form of conversion therapy seeks to explain your gender dysphoria by ANY other means than validating transness. There's often no stop point, they keep on until you drop your identity or age out. 1of2”
Erin Reed
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