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To My Daughter's Therapist: You Were Wrong

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  • Sep 20, 2021
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To my daughter’s gender therapist: you were wrong. It has been some months since you and my daughter had the last of four sessions. In the third session I was invited to sit in on a... Show More

To my daughter’s gender therapist: you were wrong. It has been some months since you and my daughter had the last of four sessions. In the third session I was invited to sit in on a discussion of the effects of T, testosterone, on a human female body. You smiled calmly as you led us through a series of Powerpoint slides, explaining that my daughter’s reproductive organs would atrophy, that she would grow a beard, that her voice would deepen, and that “the phallus” would become enlarged. I sat listening, summoning all of my own skills as a clinical psychologist to not let a tirade loose at you in front of my brittle and fragile 17 year old.

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James A. Lindsay @ConceptualJames · Apr 15, 2022
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Important read. Spanish translation would be great.
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