"Go on, ask me my pronouns"
America sneezed and the world caught Munchausens
I just got banned from TikTok for sharing this video. I don’t blame them. It’s horrific.
Did you know this?
This is a stunning report by Stephanie Davies Arai (UPDATE: the report is actually by Shelley Charlesworth. Apologies, Shelley!) Did you know that the head psychologist of the Tavistock is a trans-identified male? I didn’t.
Leaving aside for the moment Meg-John Barker, and what ‘polyamorous identities, kink and BDSM’ have to do with treating young people experiencing dysphoria, ‘Christina’ is a natal male currently telling young women that the road to happiness depends on a lifetime of surgery and drug dependency.
This person, who seems to have a million professional roles and has written a million things on their particular, very niche, area of specialism, is practising that whilst being their very own full-time case study? In what other specific area of science, or counselling/psychology would you get someone living through a condition and also working in academia as a 'world leading expert' in that very field?
It's a staggering conflict of interest. How can they possibly be an objective voice or advisor?
Why don’t YouTube want kids to know about the reality of surgically transitioning?
How long are women going to stand for this insult?
A key move in grooming...
Separate child from parents.
This just in from the generation that discovered hair colouring.
No music, no movies, no art, just meaningless shite like this day after day from the most insufferable youth movement ever.
Another great review for Abigail Shrier’s book
This time in the Independent, which to its credit has been examining this issue properly since they published the Countess letter. But check out this lunatic response (thread).
Best bit, anything other than a negative review breaches best practice. You couldn't make this shit up.
And then there’s this guy offering to give out the literary editor’s email. When are people going to stand up against these fucking lunatics?
More passionate Guardian activism on behalf of straight crossdressers
Vox explained in one tweet
And finally…
Embarrassed at how long it took to get around to Bill Callahan. What a songwriter, what a voice.
so theres a TIM in charge of kids being transed at the Tavistock - who knew..no, actually WHO KNEW? as you say this is a blatant conflict of interests and he should be removed immediately - let him sue them - more and more its so obvious that these men and their handmaids want to erase homosexuals and produce a collection of sterile and stuck in limbo forever kids - wonder why?
Horrifying. All of it. And you're right. A person experiencing delusions who believes in their delusions and is in favour of promoting those deluisions is not the right person to tell other people how to manage delusions.
A true and genuine belief in transology is a mental disorder as it does not equate to reality. It is no different from the psychosis of other mental health disorders. Psychosis meaning the person is detached from external reality. Exactly the case with those who actually believe in transology
There can be great value in a person who experiences schizophrenia speaking up about their lived experiences. Sometimes persons with mental disorders work well in the field of mental health, including as peer workers. I used to know a senior mental health support worker who experienced schizophrenic episodes, and talked about it at workshops for our benefit. He worked at a large organisation in Ipswich (Queensland, not UK). However, he wasn't trying to preach that experiencing psychosis is a normal way to function in life. He managed his condition without promoting the deeply harmful idea that we should be encouraging psychotic delusions in others. He was an example of a person with a mental illness who has a lot to offer others with that mental illness.
However, I also used to work with a lovely lady (no sarcasm intended she really was lovely) who experienced psychosis fairly regularly when stressed, including the delusions that she could talk to the dead and could predict the future. She was anti medication and did not accept the diagnosis of schizophrenia. She managed her condition reasonably well considering and had a lot of insights to offer. However, she also had Anosognosia.
Anosognosia is a lack of ability to perceive the realities of one's own condition or accept that your condition matches a formal diagnosis. When working with a person with anosognosia you work around it as best you can. For example, I was able to convince her to go to her GP to discuss her meds by not arguing with her belief at all, nor agreeing that she was right, but by pointing out the practical benefits to doing so, which included being able to get her GP to sign off on an NDIS plan we were working on. You might say to someone with anosognosia "Look, it'll help keep them off your back if you take these pills, and at least then you can get peace to go to the movies like you want to" rather than arguing with them.
But what you must also never do is validate the delusion., no matter how tricky that might sometimes be.
It would be EXACTLY as dangerous to put this woman in charge of diagnosing people experiencing psychosis in an Acute Care team as it is having a transologist in charge of diagnosing dysphoric children.
Again, it is not controversial to say that any person who actually believes in a delusion and favours validating and promoting delusions is NOT a person to be offering medical advice to young people at risk of becoming delusional. You're absolutely right.