Thank you for your well informed, detailed and thoughtful insights about this vexing phenomenon! This is the sort of information that policymakers, legislators, educators, medical and mental health professionals, editorial boards, op-ed writers and the general public need as an antidote to the one-sided talking points of trans rights adv…
Thank you for your well informed, detailed and thoughtful insights about this vexing phenomenon! This is the sort of information that policymakers, legislators, educators, medical and mental health professionals, editorial boards, op-ed writers and the general public need as an antidote to the one-sided talking points of trans rights advocates.
One of my fears is that legislatures in states controlled by Democrats where progressives have considerable influence will enact measures prohibiting so-called conversion therapy that make it impossible for mental health professionals to consider significant psychiatric and neurodevelopmental problems when working with young clients with gender identity issues. In an ideal world, the licensing organizations would oppose such restrictions on the exercise of professional judgment, but today it's entirely likely that they would go along with it in order to "protect" trans youth.
Here in Oregon it has been illegal since 2015 for healthcare professionals to use so-called "conversion therapy" with minors to try to change their "gender identities." The law does not define "conversion therapy" specifically enough to protect healthcare professionals who are conducting therapy as usual. Licensing boards are state bureaucracies that generally enforce state laws. They aren't a resource as much as they are part of the enforcement apparatus of the Democratic political systems in states controlled by that party.
Thank you for your well informed, detailed and thoughtful insights about this vexing phenomenon! This is the sort of information that policymakers, legislators, educators, medical and mental health professionals, editorial boards, op-ed writers and the general public need as an antidote to the one-sided talking points of trans rights advocates.
One of my fears is that legislatures in states controlled by Democrats where progressives have considerable influence will enact measures prohibiting so-called conversion therapy that make it impossible for mental health professionals to consider significant psychiatric and neurodevelopmental problems when working with young clients with gender identity issues. In an ideal world, the licensing organizations would oppose such restrictions on the exercise of professional judgment, but today it's entirely likely that they would go along with it in order to "protect" trans youth.
Here in Oregon it has been illegal since 2015 for healthcare professionals to use so-called "conversion therapy" with minors to try to change their "gender identities." The law does not define "conversion therapy" specifically enough to protect healthcare professionals who are conducting therapy as usual. Licensing boards are state bureaucracies that generally enforce state laws. They aren't a resource as much as they are part of the enforcement apparatus of the Democratic political systems in states controlled by that party.