I would love to be a fly on the wall at the sociologist’s conference 50 years from now. They will surely wonder “how on earth did this happen?”. How, on the basis of a metaphor taken literally (the born in the wrong body myth) by gullible or opportunistic doctors, and promulgated throughout society including to kids by a rapacious industry rich enough to buy politicians and institutions, were so many children’s bodies and futures damaged beyond repair.
As now stood-down heretic Qld psychiatrist Jillian Spencer pointed out in her recent YouTube video on models of care for gender dysphoria, historically the concept of “therapeutic collusion” was taught to all psychoanalysts. The point was to avoid colluding with a patient’s self-serving or delusory worldview, despite this being a tempting way to avoid dealing with uncomfortable facts, to relieve the patient’s and the therapist’s anxiety and to build a false rapport—all to the patient’s ultimate detriment. Gender doctors have clearly never heard of the concept, as we can see from some of the bizarre-bordering-on-psychotic comments made by one of the medicos quoted above. Collusion has been renamed “affirmation” and is now essentially mandatory.
There has been a longstanding failure to train medical students in the scientific method, according to physician and addiction specialist, Dr Drew Pinksy, who spoke about this during his recent chat with Gad Saad on the latter’s podcast show The Saad Truth. This is obvious when we see gender doctors defending their trade by resorting to emotive pleas and citing physician consensus rather than evidence. Now that medical training has been overtaken by indoctrination in “identity”-driven social justice narratives, this ignorance about what constitutes meaningful evidence and the failure to understand the principle of “do no harm” can only deepen.
The rationale used to justify extreme invasive mutilating off-label, ‘no-way-back’ therapies is, at times, appropriate in the heroic corner-cutting off-label efforts that are justified in otherwise disastrous terminally fatal medical conditions.
Yet here we are applying them to otherwise healthy children and young folk.
I would love to be a fly on the wall at the sociologist’s conference 50 years from now. They will surely wonder “how on earth did this happen?”. How, on the basis of a metaphor taken literally (the born in the wrong body myth) by gullible or opportunistic doctors, and promulgated throughout society including to kids by a rapacious industry rich enough to buy politicians and institutions, were so many children’s bodies and futures damaged beyond repair.
As now stood-down heretic Qld psychiatrist Jillian Spencer pointed out in her recent YouTube video on models of care for gender dysphoria, historically the concept of “therapeutic collusion” was taught to all psychoanalysts. The point was to avoid colluding with a patient’s self-serving or delusory worldview, despite this being a tempting way to avoid dealing with uncomfortable facts, to relieve the patient’s and the therapist’s anxiety and to build a false rapport—all to the patient’s ultimate detriment. Gender doctors have clearly never heard of the concept, as we can see from some of the bizarre-bordering-on-psychotic comments made by one of the medicos quoted above. Collusion has been renamed “affirmation” and is now essentially mandatory.
There has been a longstanding failure to train medical students in the scientific method, according to physician and addiction specialist, Dr Drew Pinksy, who spoke about this during his recent chat with Gad Saad on the latter’s podcast show The Saad Truth. This is obvious when we see gender doctors defending their trade by resorting to emotive pleas and citing physician consensus rather than evidence. Now that medical training has been overtaken by indoctrination in “identity”-driven social justice narratives, this ignorance about what constitutes meaningful evidence and the failure to understand the principle of “do no harm” can only deepen.
The rationale used to justify extreme invasive mutilating off-label, ‘no-way-back’ therapies is, at times, appropriate in the heroic corner-cutting off-label efforts that are justified in otherwise disastrous terminally fatal medical conditions.
Yet here we are applying them to otherwise healthy children and young folk.