It didn't take them long to co-opt another dead celebrity in the name of their cause. Funny how they didn't do this while Meat Loaf was alive and could speak for himself. I reckon' he would have had some choice words for them personally.
I suspect it was his role as actor in Rocky Horror. Tenuous at best, and a delusion. It's certainly a low stunt to put words in the mouth of a dead celebrity, only 48 hours or so after his death.
So from one role he *played* as an *actor*, is enough to define him as a performer over many decades. Meat Loaf is barely cold and this arsehole is trying to claim him as part of their misogynistic cult.
Thinking about it, I suspect it was also because of his role in the film "Fight Club" where his male character has breasts - not becuase he chose them or was trans (the character), but because the character had his testicals removed and was on hormone therapy as as his testoterone was too high his body upped the oestrogen.
Right, another role he played. When it works for them, these MRA's do tend conflate fantasy with reality. Along with a fondness for appropriating the dead.
Meatloaf also openly talked about how 'even' a guy that looked like him could be a music superstar and that was what many people could relate to. He wasn't attractive in the cookie-cutter way many slebs are. He played with that aspect of it all. So yet again these TRAs are deliberately missing the point and his own words about himself. There is nothing and no one they won't co-opt or twist.
Indeed. They protest when a non trans actor plays what they consider to be a trans part, so retrospectively, all actors that have previously played a trans part *must* be trans. They do not understand what acting is it seems!
This is constantly being whinged about in the media. How can you have an actor acting a role that should have been given to.....blah, bore, blah!
Redmayne apologised for his role. Perhaps future movies should ensure that only actual Nazis apply for roles along with actual serial killers and actual ghosts. I'm imagining a future of humourless dullards discarding all forms of artistry and replacing it with droning performances cataloguing utterly unremarkable and concocted existences. Like some Hellish AA meeting that never gets past the introduction stage!
I totally agree. Redmayne (and anyone that apologises for legimatley playing a role as an actor) is a spineless ass in that case. His only replyg, should have been it was a role I played as an actor and I am very proud of being able to portray this part and speak to the many xxx people about their experiences which helped me portray it so successfully).
Lavery is a psychopath who enjoys saying outrageous things simply to see the reaction it gets. He knows it's not true & doesn't care if it hurts anyone. In fact, I think it tickles his pickle that much more if it DOES hurt someone. He's a sorry excuse for a human being. I feel bad for his prisoner, er... I mean his wife.
I've been meaning to subscribe for a while but that meatloaf comment compelled me to do it today. I'm disgusted by it, how tf was he "queer" Oh and I stg if someone doesn't give India wannabe a bloody biology lesson, my head will explode.
Maybe he has a hotline to senior politicians who really struggle in public with the whole male or female anatomy stuff. HE HAS A CERVIX!!! HE HAS NO PROSTATE! Maybe we'll discover one day what happened to his non-existent never-ever-had-one prostate. Does it dissolve? Was it removed by pixies? Does it get carried in his handbag? He'll never therefore logically get prostate cancer then, lucky him.
What types of cancers do trans-identified people get? Or are we screwing with all data there too?
men-womanfacing and taking the various wrong sex hormones, will develop (self induced) gynaecomastia (enlarged breasts). These do not look like women's breasts for obvious reasons. Men as a sex, can develop breast cancer but it is very, very rare. Those with gynaecomastia have a higher risk of it.
Men-womanfacing can still develop prostate cancer though the estrogen can reduce that risk but not entirely.
Willoughby is a lying narcissistic twat. He will still have his prostate. It is not a simple thing to have it removed. It is not removed as standard with SRS. So, he does till have the potential to develop prostate cancer.
What he will not get is any form of gynaecological illness: no risks of uterine, ovarian, or cervical cancer; no risk of a fibroids, no risk of ovarian cysts etc. As he doesn't have the parts. He can't even get any "vaginal" conditions as he doesn't have a vagina.
He can get a serious infection in the surgically created cavity that may have been made. This puts him at huge risk of sepsis or some other nasty infection. An inverted penis is not a healthy thing.
I suspect there will also be implication with his urinary tract.. He will be at much greater risk of urinary infections. Bladder cancer is a risk. He may also have increased issues with bowel issues due to the needless surgery to make the cavity. If he's fortunate he will escape serious issues.
"Trans rights activists are men’s rights activists." I'm still really proud that I worked this out for myself. I was really excited when I made the connection. If you're not in the normal range neurologically, social stuff can sometimes be hard to work out. Well for me it is.
Oh, Penny, we're all working this stuff out because it makes no sense to a rational human being. One of the things I love about the comments on Glinner is the insights that we share with each other.
I finally realized that the schoolteachers transing kids is at least partially because they think they're the same age as the children and it's so much fun to keep secrets from mommy and daddy. I also think power and control attract some people to these professions, and I'm really hoping these women lose their teaching certificates (they are apparently in fear of losing their jobs according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle -- hurrah if true).
As a teacher of 21 years I hope they lose their job too. To use their power and influence this way is despicable and no different to grooming for other purposes. It serves them not the child.
In therapy that would be called 'counter-transference' - the therapist projects an unresolved issue from their past onto a client. I suspect it can happen in teacher pupil relationships. A therapist always has to be highly self-aware to manage their own emotions and where reactions are coming from - constant challenging and questioning of self.
It's a betrayal of the trust that parents have in them. They should have known better.
Thank you for your support Susan, I really appreciate it. :)
Highly self-aware! That's it in a nutshell. You should have seen the therapist our foster daughter had; she expected this child who had been neglected and abused to satisfy her needs, very depressing. And she enabled her to leave us the minute she began to show signs of attachment to me, which was supposedly the entire purpose of therapy. (Foster daughter tested me by taking drugs at school and the entire system enabled her to get away with it after she was suspended for five days [very serious consequence].) That was it for me doing foster care, I was not going to help them damage damaged children even more.
It was extremely stressful and I realized that as hard as caring for Laura was, dealing with the caseworker, the therapist social worker, and the regular social worker -- this was "therapeutic foster care" -- was far worse. They just love foster parents when you first participate -- obviously arising from their own familial problems -- but when they realize you are just a human being you are dismissed. I don't mean they didn't immediately want to place another child after Laura left -- two seconds later -- but they're no longer in love with you which they never should have been in the first place.
And your idea of working with people with different learning modalities sounds VERY interesting.
It sounds like it was very complicated to navigate all those people. Too full on, if you know what I mean. You're right, they shouldn't be all emotional at you, supportive yes, weird and fawning no. Hugs for you
I'm looking forward to getting into my course, I've put it off because I've been stressed
Great to be able to read Arif Ahmed's eloquent defence in full.
Also, at the risk of repeating myself, the report on Higher Education Freedom of Speech https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0167/210923.pdf is awaiting its third reading in the House of Commons so let's hope it does come through and sooner rather than later. I always feel that if the universities are all made to safeguard freedom of speech for their staff, this will spill over to other captured companies.
This bill was sponsored by Gavin Williamson. Another Tory I'm warming to.
Why do men who claim they are lesbians always look more extremely male than many other men? They have overhanging brows or tiny eyes or giant chins and could never pass as female without a face transplant. Interesting, that, especially compared to the beautiful detransitioner who was on a recent post.
Because the point is NOT that they *are* lesbian. The point is to be as offensive as possible to Women, and Lesbians in particular *because they can* and because they are being *applauded* for it. They have an audience in those who won't challenge, in those who like the schadenfreude going on due to their latent misogyny and in those who see this as an opportunity to flex their "social justice" muscles without actually doing anything which will actually help society.
She sounds like a fawning apologist, trying desperately to placate transmisogynists. Her references are to 'pregnant people', and 'people' who have cervices, uteruses and ovaries. And a "system of patriarchy being harmful and toxic for all". But the patriarchy isn't harmful to itself, it isn't poisoned by its own venom. She's talking to the patriarchy about the patriarchy.
These people can't be dealt with in this way. They are experts at oppressing, bullying and getting what they want, with thousands of years experience.
There have always been willing handmaidens who will quite happily throw other women under the bus for male approval. I don't get it and never have. There was a woman assistant where I worked a while back and all the men thought she was wonderful and so sweet. She would fawn over all the men with smiles and treat any woman with barely veiled contempt. She wouldn't even speak to other women on the whole. FGM is untaken by women and done to women for men. At another place I worked at, a mail man walked striaght up to me, past my male staff to get me to sign for a package. I was the senior manager there and he just assumed as the woman I was the admin clerk. When I told some women, they nearly all defended the mail man. The patriarchy has power and some women will always ally themselves with the power, either through habit and not thinking, through fear, or because they think they will be more accepted and gain a little power for themselves. Women can be our own worst enemy sometimes.
All women speaking about women's rights and concerns now, have to police their language and surrender their definitions and boundaries to some extent, because they know the MRA's/TRA's will come after them if they don't. If that happens, the focus isn't on women's rights and freedoms anymore, it's about women defending our identity and legitimacy.
Who ever thought that lesbians might one day have to justify and defend themselves for not wanting to have 'lesbians' with male bodies, male hormones and male genitalia as sexual partners? That not accepting womanhood could exist entirely in the mind and anyone who identified it in theirs could claim it, would be thought about in terms of hated and bigotry.
I'm not surprised that women are madly contorting themselves into all kinds of shapes just to express an opinion without transmisogynists going after their blood. We can't do it like this, we all recognise that enough isn't enough for them. They're insatiable and want everything.
There aren't pregnant people, or people with crevices, etc, they are women.
Regardless whether they're women who deny their sex and gender identity in favour of a male one.
Plenty of politicians, lobbyists, journalists and reporters in Ireland have been covering the issue of male violence to women recently and they are clearly referring to adult human females. Don't think they'd be prepared to confirm that though. Being a woman is just a matter of identifying as one in the Republic of Ireland - ask the National Women's Council.
And we're back to the leftist editor who told me he suspects trans ideology may be a psychological operation on the part of the government. It certainly makes sense as people are caught up in discussing pronouns rather than fighting for a planet that remains habitable, and nothing could make the military-industrial complex happier.
The only problem is that "professional psychologists" have bought into a lot of this garbage and are promoting it. I am very wary of therapists because I've seen them do a lot of damage; I know there are good ones, but they can be difficult to find.
Yup. There's a bit of a difference in terms and between psychologists and clinical psychologists. And types of training and practice, then which professional body/ies you belong to (if at all). Don't get me started on counsellors and therapists. The psychology, psychiatry and health professions under the umbrella of 'mental health' have this mess at their door.
Look at the average length of stay in private vs NHS run UK mental health inpatient units. Profit motive? There are too many in the system (staff and patients) whistleblowing and not being heard.
I was going to train as a therapist and changed my mind. I'm just starting a life coaching course and want to help people with learning differences etc.
I am very conflicted about the psychiatry profession. It's got a bad rep for good reasons and gender woo isn't helping. I heard a psychiatrist talk about their groundbreaking unit and was shocked at how their very basic innovation was giving people autonomy, purpose and respect. When that's viewed as a revolutionary way to treat patients or users of a service it illustrates quite how poorly the whole system is doing. It's not evolved much in hundreds of years.
There are some voices of sanity speaking up though. Do you know of Az Hakeem? Webinar: Transition and Detranstion with Dr Az Hakeem and Sinead Watson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjogH-WAxg
Addendum: As a newly graduated psychologist, I'd like to say, professionals really shouldn't be messing about with psychology. They're making a collosal mess of it.
AND they should know better. *Eye rolls* Sheesh....
CBT might be a better place to go if traditional therapy is a problem. I do know what you mean, I've met a couple of bad ones, soon as there's a red flag I'd complain and leave. Better Help is good, I use it. And you can get a different person if there's a problem.
My husband (more accurate: roommate) saw a social worker, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist over the years, and little good they did him. His sister is a social worker therapist doing tele-therapy and she sent him a version of CBT, both the explanatory material and the workbook. It won't repair the damage he has done to his brain by being sedentary but it does seem to focus on being aware.
I hope things improve :( I like jigsaw puzzles now and then to help my mind. And hanging out in nature. But nothing really helps for long, ADHD is odd to describe, like having a wild thing where your brain should be.
What a fascinating description! Can you focus intensely? I know some people who are diagnosed with ADHS (our foster daughter's brother) can focus unbelievably intensely.
It didn't take them long to co-opt another dead celebrity in the name of their cause. Funny how they didn't do this while Meat Loaf was alive and could speak for himself. I reckon' he would have had some choice words for them personally.
What the fuck is he talking about? And based on what? Nothing. It's a product of Lavery's noxious, male supremacist mind.
I suspect it was his role as actor in Rocky Horror. Tenuous at best, and a delusion. It's certainly a low stunt to put words in the mouth of a dead celebrity, only 48 hours or so after his death.
So from one role he *played* as an *actor*, is enough to define him as a performer over many decades. Meat Loaf is barely cold and this arsehole is trying to claim him as part of their misogynistic cult.
I suspect so. Despicable isn't it?
Truly despicable, and typical.
Thinking about it, I suspect it was also because of his role in the film "Fight Club" where his male character has breasts - not becuase he chose them or was trans (the character), but because the character had his testicals removed and was on hormone therapy as as his testoterone was too high his body upped the oestrogen.
Right, another role he played. When it works for them, these MRA's do tend conflate fantasy with reality. Along with a fondness for appropriating the dead.
Meatloaf also openly talked about how 'even' a guy that looked like him could be a music superstar and that was what many people could relate to. He wasn't attractive in the cookie-cutter way many slebs are. He played with that aspect of it all. So yet again these TRAs are deliberately missing the point and his own words about himself. There is nothing and no one they won't co-opt or twist.
By that logic all actors who played trans characters are actually trans. How wonderful 🤪
Indeed. They protest when a non trans actor plays what they consider to be a trans part, so retrospectively, all actors that have previously played a trans part *must* be trans. They do not understand what acting is it seems!
This is constantly being whinged about in the media. How can you have an actor acting a role that should have been given to.....blah, bore, blah!
Redmayne apologised for his role. Perhaps future movies should ensure that only actual Nazis apply for roles along with actual serial killers and actual ghosts. I'm imagining a future of humourless dullards discarding all forms of artistry and replacing it with droning performances cataloguing utterly unremarkable and concocted existences. Like some Hellish AA meeting that never gets past the introduction stage!
I totally agree. Redmayne (and anyone that apologises for legimatley playing a role as an actor) is a spineless ass in that case. His only replyg, should have been it was a role I played as an actor and I am very proud of being able to portray this part and speak to the many xxx people about their experiences which helped me portray it so successfully).
Eddie Redmayne - trans
Sean Bean - trans
Obviously Tim Curry
Lavery is a psychopath who enjoys saying outrageous things simply to see the reaction it gets. He knows it's not true & doesn't care if it hurts anyone. In fact, I think it tickles his pickle that much more if it DOES hurt someone. He's a sorry excuse for a human being. I feel bad for his prisoner, er... I mean his wife.
She obviously needs to grow up and dump him.
I've been meaning to subscribe for a while but that meatloaf comment compelled me to do it today. I'm disgusted by it, how tf was he "queer" Oh and I stg if someone doesn't give India wannabe a bloody biology lesson, my head will explode.
Willoughby will say and do anything for attention. He identifies as a 3 year old. Bit sad really
And Willoughby thinks/lies that "Terf brains like to ignore reality".
Maybe he has a hotline to senior politicians who really struggle in public with the whole male or female anatomy stuff. HE HAS A CERVIX!!! HE HAS NO PROSTATE! Maybe we'll discover one day what happened to his non-existent never-ever-had-one prostate. Does it dissolve? Was it removed by pixies? Does it get carried in his handbag? He'll never therefore logically get prostate cancer then, lucky him.
What types of cancers do trans-identified people get? Or are we screwing with all data there too?
men-womanfacing and taking the various wrong sex hormones, will develop (self induced) gynaecomastia (enlarged breasts). These do not look like women's breasts for obvious reasons. Men as a sex, can develop breast cancer but it is very, very rare. Those with gynaecomastia have a higher risk of it.
Men-womanfacing can still develop prostate cancer though the estrogen can reduce that risk but not entirely.
Willoughby is a lying narcissistic twat. He will still have his prostate. It is not a simple thing to have it removed. It is not removed as standard with SRS. So, he does till have the potential to develop prostate cancer.
What he will not get is any form of gynaecological illness: no risks of uterine, ovarian, or cervical cancer; no risk of a fibroids, no risk of ovarian cysts etc. As he doesn't have the parts. He can't even get any "vaginal" conditions as he doesn't have a vagina.
He can get a serious infection in the surgically created cavity that may have been made. This puts him at huge risk of sepsis or some other nasty infection. An inverted penis is not a healthy thing.
I suspect there will also be implication with his urinary tract.. He will be at much greater risk of urinary infections. Bladder cancer is a risk. He may also have increased issues with bowel issues due to the needless surgery to make the cavity. If he's fortunate he will escape serious issues.
He's really an idiot not to know he still has a prostate.
"Trans rights activists are men’s rights activists." I'm still really proud that I worked this out for myself. I was really excited when I made the connection. If you're not in the normal range neurologically, social stuff can sometimes be hard to work out. Well for me it is.
Oh, Penny, we're all working this stuff out because it makes no sense to a rational human being. One of the things I love about the comments on Glinner is the insights that we share with each other.
I finally realized that the schoolteachers transing kids is at least partially because they think they're the same age as the children and it's so much fun to keep secrets from mommy and daddy. I also think power and control attract some people to these professions, and I'm really hoping these women lose their teaching certificates (they are apparently in fear of losing their jobs according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle -- hurrah if true).
As a teacher of 21 years I hope they lose their job too. To use their power and influence this way is despicable and no different to grooming for other purposes. It serves them not the child.
In therapy that would be called 'counter-transference' - the therapist projects an unresolved issue from their past onto a client. I suspect it can happen in teacher pupil relationships. A therapist always has to be highly self-aware to manage their own emotions and where reactions are coming from - constant challenging and questioning of self.
It's a betrayal of the trust that parents have in them. They should have known better.
Thank you for your support Susan, I really appreciate it. :)
Highly self-aware! That's it in a nutshell. You should have seen the therapist our foster daughter had; she expected this child who had been neglected and abused to satisfy her needs, very depressing. And she enabled her to leave us the minute she began to show signs of attachment to me, which was supposedly the entire purpose of therapy. (Foster daughter tested me by taking drugs at school and the entire system enabled her to get away with it after she was suspended for five days [very serious consequence].) That was it for me doing foster care, I was not going to help them damage damaged children even more.
I'm so sorry, that sounds like such a difficult experience to go through and especially as you wanted to help a child and give them a home
It was extremely stressful and I realized that as hard as caring for Laura was, dealing with the caseworker, the therapist social worker, and the regular social worker -- this was "therapeutic foster care" -- was far worse. They just love foster parents when you first participate -- obviously arising from their own familial problems -- but when they realize you are just a human being you are dismissed. I don't mean they didn't immediately want to place another child after Laura left -- two seconds later -- but they're no longer in love with you which they never should have been in the first place.
And your idea of working with people with different learning modalities sounds VERY interesting.
It sounds like it was very complicated to navigate all those people. Too full on, if you know what I mean. You're right, they shouldn't be all emotional at you, supportive yes, weird and fawning no. Hugs for you
I'm looking forward to getting into my course, I've put it off because I've been stressed
Tom Dolphin: “Everyone has a soul, even if heretics refuse to think about it that way”. Why can’t people see this for the faith-based ideology it is?
Great to be able to read Arif Ahmed's eloquent defence in full.
Also, at the risk of repeating myself, the report on Higher Education Freedom of Speech https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0167/210923.pdf is awaiting its third reading in the House of Commons so let's hope it does come through and sooner rather than later. I always feel that if the universities are all made to safeguard freedom of speech for their staff, this will spill over to other captured companies.
This bill was sponsored by Gavin Williamson. Another Tory I'm warming to.
Why do men who claim they are lesbians always look more extremely male than many other men? They have overhanging brows or tiny eyes or giant chins and could never pass as female without a face transplant. Interesting, that, especially compared to the beautiful detransitioner who was on a recent post.
Because the point is NOT that they *are* lesbian. The point is to be as offensive as possible to Women, and Lesbians in particular *because they can* and because they are being *applauded* for it. They have an audience in those who won't challenge, in those who like the schadenfreude going on due to their latent misogyny and in those who see this as an opportunity to flex their "social justice" muscles without actually doing anything which will actually help society.
Help society? What's society? They all think like Margaret Thatcher and wouldn't that be a shock to them!
Omg, that made me laugh 😂 no idea though
Professor of Wanking🤣🤣🤣.
Love to see what he submitted to get to be a Prof. This world is mad! What happened to the debate with Helen J?
Ambidextrous, he majored in!
You have to hand it to him.
India Willoughby - the delusion holds no bounds
I LOVE your twitter updates, Graham, it got me through a few months where I gave up twitter… thank you for what you do.
I wouldn’t cheer on Erin Darcy as she describes herself as ‘cis’ and repeats the mantra TWAW, so not sure what is going on there… https://twitter.com/edarcydesign/status/1484891100712255488?s=21
She sounds like a fawning apologist, trying desperately to placate transmisogynists. Her references are to 'pregnant people', and 'people' who have cervices, uteruses and ovaries. And a "system of patriarchy being harmful and toxic for all". But the patriarchy isn't harmful to itself, it isn't poisoned by its own venom. She's talking to the patriarchy about the patriarchy.
These people can't be dealt with in this way. They are experts at oppressing, bullying and getting what they want, with thousands of years experience.
How can women utter this crap ?
There have always been willing handmaidens who will quite happily throw other women under the bus for male approval. I don't get it and never have. There was a woman assistant where I worked a while back and all the men thought she was wonderful and so sweet. She would fawn over all the men with smiles and treat any woman with barely veiled contempt. She wouldn't even speak to other women on the whole. FGM is untaken by women and done to women for men. At another place I worked at, a mail man walked striaght up to me, past my male staff to get me to sign for a package. I was the senior manager there and he just assumed as the woman I was the admin clerk. When I told some women, they nearly all defended the mail man. The patriarchy has power and some women will always ally themselves with the power, either through habit and not thinking, through fear, or because they think they will be more accepted and gain a little power for themselves. Women can be our own worst enemy sometimes.
We should never have left the sink, barefoot and pregnant.
How dare we!
All women speaking about women's rights and concerns now, have to police their language and surrender their definitions and boundaries to some extent, because they know the MRA's/TRA's will come after them if they don't. If that happens, the focus isn't on women's rights and freedoms anymore, it's about women defending our identity and legitimacy.
Who ever thought that lesbians might one day have to justify and defend themselves for not wanting to have 'lesbians' with male bodies, male hormones and male genitalia as sexual partners? That not accepting womanhood could exist entirely in the mind and anyone who identified it in theirs could claim it, would be thought about in terms of hated and bigotry.
I'm not surprised that women are madly contorting themselves into all kinds of shapes just to express an opinion without transmisogynists going after their blood. We can't do it like this, we all recognise that enough isn't enough for them. They're insatiable and want everything.
There aren't pregnant people, or people with crevices, etc, they are women.
Regardless whether they're women who deny their sex and gender identity in favour of a male one.
She shouldn't try to stand on both sides of the fence at the same time, she could do herself a mischief...
Let alone the splinters.
😂😂😂
Plenty of politicians, lobbyists, journalists and reporters in Ireland have been covering the issue of male violence to women recently and they are clearly referring to adult human females. Don't think they'd be prepared to confirm that though. Being a woman is just a matter of identifying as one in the Republic of Ireland - ask the National Women's Council.
I think they’ll be shocked at how enraged people are going to be.
And we're back to the leftist editor who told me he suspects trans ideology may be a psychological operation on the part of the government. It certainly makes sense as people are caught up in discussing pronouns rather than fighting for a planet that remains habitable, and nothing could make the military-industrial complex happier.
As a newly graduated psychologist, I'd like to say, amateurs really shouldn't be messing about with psychology. They're making a collosal mess of it.
The only problem is that "professional psychologists" have bought into a lot of this garbage and are promoting it. I am very wary of therapists because I've seen them do a lot of damage; I know there are good ones, but they can be difficult to find.
Yup. There's a bit of a difference in terms and between psychologists and clinical psychologists. And types of training and practice, then which professional body/ies you belong to (if at all). Don't get me started on counsellors and therapists. The psychology, psychiatry and health professions under the umbrella of 'mental health' have this mess at their door.
Look at the average length of stay in private vs NHS run UK mental health inpatient units. Profit motive? There are too many in the system (staff and patients) whistleblowing and not being heard.
Very true. I personally don't like psychiatrists.
I was going to train as a therapist and changed my mind. I'm just starting a life coaching course and want to help people with learning differences etc.
I am very conflicted about the psychiatry profession. It's got a bad rep for good reasons and gender woo isn't helping. I heard a psychiatrist talk about their groundbreaking unit and was shocked at how their very basic innovation was giving people autonomy, purpose and respect. When that's viewed as a revolutionary way to treat patients or users of a service it illustrates quite how poorly the whole system is doing. It's not evolved much in hundreds of years.
There are some voices of sanity speaking up though. Do you know of Az Hakeem? Webinar: Transition and Detranstion with Dr Az Hakeem and Sinead Watson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjogH-WAxg
Addendum: As a newly graduated psychologist, I'd like to say, professionals really shouldn't be messing about with psychology. They're making a collosal mess of it.
AND they should know better. *Eye rolls* Sheesh....
CBT might be a better place to go if traditional therapy is a problem. I do know what you mean, I've met a couple of bad ones, soon as there's a red flag I'd complain and leave. Better Help is good, I use it. And you can get a different person if there's a problem.
My husband (more accurate: roommate) saw a social worker, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist over the years, and little good they did him. His sister is a social worker therapist doing tele-therapy and she sent him a version of CBT, both the explanatory material and the workbook. It won't repair the damage he has done to his brain by being sedentary but it does seem to focus on being aware.
I hope things improve :( I like jigsaw puzzles now and then to help my mind. And hanging out in nature. But nothing really helps for long, ADHD is odd to describe, like having a wild thing where your brain should be.
What a fascinating description! Can you focus intensely? I know some people who are diagnosed with ADHS (our foster daughter's brother) can focus unbelievably intensely.
I googled the law firm. They are in San Francisco..the epicenter of clinics competing with each other to invent new surgeries.
The perfect storm
It was based on the same error in logic as the gender dysphoria one. All people presenting with symptoms A = diagnosis B.
Not true. People are way more complicated. Learning from history - we need to do it at some point