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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"Gender Exploratory Therapy": A New Anti-trans Conversion Therapy With A Misleading Name

You should know about gender exploratory therapy. This therapy seeks to "explore" why a trans person is trans while keeping HRT "several months away." They never intend to allow transition.

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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:

https://t.co/q5tHjOOn5R

Much of gay conversion therapy finds its way into gender exploratory therapy. The "causes of gender dysphoria" published on Parents of ROGD Kids website list several causes that are ALSO found in old gay conversion therapy causes. I link to the old docs in the article.

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.

https://t.co/y8hYd738EL

Recalled Exposure to Gender Identity Conversion Efforts and Psychological Distress and Suicide Attempts

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.

The way Gender Exploratory Therapy has been injected into the mainstream is frightening. Remember that Reuters Article fearmongering over pubery blockers? It pushes a GET practitioner - Dr. Erica Andrews - claiming that Gender Dysphoria is often caused by mental health problems.

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

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“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.”

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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.

https://t.co/6i18aUOqgt

NHS Trust uses "Gender Exploratory" training materials promoting conversion therapy lobbyists

Psychiatry educators directed NHS staff towards conversion therapy advocacy organisations

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:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221102325

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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

Erin Reed on Twitter

“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”

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