Help therapists fight back against gender identity ideology
Anyone can sign this important letter
A group called Thoughtful Therapists have published an online open letter, challenging the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. With its 50,000 members, this is the UK’s biggest counselling and psychotherapy organization.
The open letter claims that:
the BACP is now pursuing a highly political agenda on gender issues.
it is failing to engage its members in open dialogue and debate.
as an example, the letter focuses on the highly partisan training event "Queering Therapy Spaces and Working with Gender Diverse Clients".
this training uses the highly offensive term ‘Terfism’ as part of its advance publicity.
the letter respectfully asks that BACP engage in meaningful dialogue with its members on these crucial issues.
The open letter was published a little over a week ago and has clearly hit a nerve, judging by supportive comments added from therapists and concerned members of the public. The letter remains online and is open to anyone who shares these concerns to sign and add comments.
Open Letter - Meaningful Dialogue with BACP
BACP are signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding, the precursor to the Conversion Therapy Bill, which many believe will restrict therapy for young gender-questioning people to ‘affirmation’ only.
As useful background, Peter Jenkins has written a critique of the inappropriate and offensive reference to ‘Terfism’ made by the training event’s advance publicity.
BACP and Terfism: Reaching the Point of no Return for Ethical Therapy?
Please support Thoughtful Therapists by adding your name and comments to the Open Letter, and watch this space for our next steps.
I'm a member of BACP and signed the letter. It's been an awful position to be in as most therapists go along with it all. I've stopped practicing with adolescents until things change.I cannot ethically go along with the affirmation model.
I am so glad that I retired from membership of the BACP and from Counselling some years ago. I feel for current membership trying to navigate their way through this disastrous quagmire like @Cheryl Mulholland. And the tragedy is that we need therapists now more than ever before. We therapists have always put ethical matters at the heart of our practice, and these days…we’ll…where do we start? Signed.