The journalist and documentary-maker Tina Traster takes us through what happened when she wrote a piece for Psychology Today about trans-identified teenagers. The piece was up for a grand total of 3 hours before trans activists succeeded in taking it down. The full story is even crazier.
I wish everyone would stop referring to "trans kids". That begs the question of what actually is going on with the children who are having emotional and mental problems about their bodies and about how they are treated by those around them because of their sexed bodies, who are now immediately assumed to "born in the wrong body". These are not "trans kids'. These are children who are uncomfortable with how they are expected to behave because of their biological sex, and uncomfortable with their bodies because of that.
Yep. They are children who have been transed by adults. It is urgently important to never use the cult speak of transology. Men/women who identify as trans or trans identified male/females. Never "trans women or trans men" a meaningless WART concept designed to obfuscate. We must use clear, factual and reality based language in this discussion, it's vital.
Apologies, usually I refer to as trans identified. It's become a shorthand for people with gender dysphoria, but I don't know anyone who has gender euphoria! Here's a great, very recent podcast from Stella O'Malley and Sasha Ayad, two therapists specialising in practising and thinking about "GD" https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ddf5bb80-cbf2-4dc5-b9db-faceb6488773/awl-001.mp3
Great Interview. Depressing, but I have high hopes for a Documentary. Love a good doc. I also wish people wouldn’t call it ‘top surgery’ or ‘bottom surgery’. Let’s call top surgery what it is - a double mastectomy of healthy breast tissue. ‘Bottom surgery’ just sounds like a Viz cartoon to me. Horrific. Such clean and ‘cutesy’ names for body mutilations.
I'm a clinical psychologist and I see wedges between parents and their child(ren) in so many settings. This is a massive systemic issue. People outside the family system including professionals and well meaning people will interfere in the lives of these families, causing more harm than good. The self righteous groups and individuals are everywhere helping these young people shout louder than their loving parents. That's what's happening, these young people, going through so much and with so many years still to grow, being given a megaphone by folks who aren't able to view this holistically.
I wish I knew what more we can do. Those of us who are seeing this totally out of control situation and I'm sure there are clinicians like me who need to protect their professional practice but who want to speak about their therapeutic experiences with families.
Graham thanks so much for this interview. I shared it with a suffering parents group I'm part of www.genderdysphoriasupportnetwork.com and there has been appreciation there too overnight. Tina entirely voices what we are going through which has been inevitably mass-peaked over Christmas, with the usual shattered hopes and letdowns that "trans" kids' estrangement of their families brings about.
I wish everyone would stop referring to "trans kids". That begs the question of what actually is going on with the children who are having emotional and mental problems about their bodies and about how they are treated by those around them because of their sexed bodies, who are now immediately assumed to "born in the wrong body". These are not "trans kids'. These are children who are uncomfortable with how they are expected to behave because of their biological sex, and uncomfortable with their bodies because of that.
Yep. They are children who have been transed by adults. It is urgently important to never use the cult speak of transology. Men/women who identify as trans or trans identified male/females. Never "trans women or trans men" a meaningless WART concept designed to obfuscate. We must use clear, factual and reality based language in this discussion, it's vital.
Apologies, usually I refer to as trans identified. It's become a shorthand for people with gender dysphoria, but I don't know anyone who has gender euphoria! Here's a great, very recent podcast from Stella O'Malley and Sasha Ayad, two therapists specialising in practising and thinking about "GD" https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ddf5bb80-cbf2-4dc5-b9db-faceb6488773/awl-001.mp3
Great Interview. Depressing, but I have high hopes for a Documentary. Love a good doc. I also wish people wouldn’t call it ‘top surgery’ or ‘bottom surgery’. Let’s call top surgery what it is - a double mastectomy of healthy breast tissue. ‘Bottom surgery’ just sounds like a Viz cartoon to me. Horrific. Such clean and ‘cutesy’ names for body mutilations.
I'm a clinical psychologist and I see wedges between parents and their child(ren) in so many settings. This is a massive systemic issue. People outside the family system including professionals and well meaning people will interfere in the lives of these families, causing more harm than good. The self righteous groups and individuals are everywhere helping these young people shout louder than their loving parents. That's what's happening, these young people, going through so much and with so many years still to grow, being given a megaphone by folks who aren't able to view this holistically.
I wish I knew what more we can do. Those of us who are seeing this totally out of control situation and I'm sure there are clinicians like me who need to protect their professional practice but who want to speak about their therapeutic experiences with families.
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Graham thanks so much for this interview. I shared it with a suffering parents group I'm part of www.genderdysphoriasupportnetwork.com and there has been appreciation there too overnight. Tina entirely voices what we are going through which has been inevitably mass-peaked over Christmas, with the usual shattered hopes and letdowns that "trans" kids' estrangement of their families brings about.
I emailed psychology today and asked why they removed her piece.
Have you thought about doing a documentary?
Amazing idea!!