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Gary Weglarz's avatar

This is a very important post in my opinion. When completing my masters in social work program 30 years ago one of my semester long practicums was interning at a locked mental health facility that treated adult male sex offenders sentenced to prison for their crime. Most were in the program 9 months or longer and the key moment in their "treatment" was when they had to pass the "victim empathy" portion of the program. They had to write and then read a statement to the assembled group of fellow offenders and two therapists and then to answer questions about their own perceptions of very specifically how their sexually abusive behavior had harmed their victim(s). Those that failed to convince the group AND the therapists that they actually could feel and exhibit real "empathy" were sent back to prison. Those that passed were allowed to continue in the program to the next phase. The purpose of this critical segment of the program was rather simple - if a convicted sex offender could not see and acknowledge and show contrition for the damage he had done to his victim - he was clearly at a high risk to continue offending. Hardly a "rocket science" perspective. I can't imagine anything more dangerous to society than advocating the destigmatizing of the psychological and oft times physical damage done to victims by male sex offenders - be those victims children or adults. Thank you for sharing very important perspectives on this. I find the disintegration of my profession into the morass of amoral, post-modern gibberish and relativity to be completely Kafkaesque.

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Sufeitzy's avatar

Engrossing and comprehensive. One paragraph early on could be a book, it is so completely overlooked and underestimated in all this debate.

**Gender Identity became the first protected characteristic to come into our human rights law in response to a psychiatric medical diagnosis rather than grass roots action.**

Trans is a delusion from which an identity was fabricated (I like your idea) and continues to be strongly promoted by the psychological and medical community - psychiatric, endocrine, surgical.

It is promoted with complete lack of evidence of existence, and with obvious indication of harm in doing so. It is promoted as non-delusional in complete contradiction to psychiatric definition of delusion - a persistent belief which is contrary to reality, when it easily fills that definition.

It is the only mental illness which is treated by medieval level mutilation of a healthy body, and we are told by medicine the mutilation is therapeutic. Drilling holes in skulls in pre-historic and later societies was practiced to let out demons, and in 21st century drilling holes in genitals region is to assuage sexual possession.

Virtually all medical proponents of trans delusion affirmation are straight male psychiatrists and psychologists, with the entire WPATH control structure being made of delusional men who insist they and others aren’t. Virtually all of opponents of trans delusion are women and gay men. That isn’t an accident.

Until the fiction of sex possession is extirpated from psychology and psychiatry, it will continue to harm those who are deluded and all around them who are forced by coercion or weak intellect to participate folie à deux in a delusion.

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