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Mark Taylor's avatar

I was a psychotherapist for 25 years. Before grad school I did volunteer work with the local rape crisis center. A staffer I knew said they needed crisis advocate volunteers to be on call for survivor support in hospital ERs . I asked if they could use a male advocate and they said absolutely. They had a great training program and I did ER victim support for about a year.

Whenever I went on an ER call I always asked if the survivor were comfortable with having me be their advocate. It was NOT a therapy situation but was about making sure services were adequate and providing information so the survivor could be making decisions about their own care. I did liaison work between staffers and the survivor and staffers.

And -- BTW -- about a third of my clients were male survivors of sexual assault and often the boys were assaulted by females.

As in all aspects of behavioral health, things are complicated.

The Rape Crisis Center then asked me to be a community educator, speaking to school and parent groups etc. All of that provided me with the references for grad school. When I was doing my internship my supervisor was a gay male psychologist who provided counseling support for a number of trans clients before they could have surgery at the famous clinic in Trinidad , Colorado. I did not do work with the trans clients but I regularly sat in on clinical staffings and it is significant that my supervisor stopped doing the trans work because of the many emotional problems clients had due to the ongoing hormone therapy before and after transition.

I find what is currently happening to be completely unethical and I predict there will be huge lawsuits coming along and we will look back on this like the lobotomy craze of the 1940s and 50s. Many clinics in Europe have been shutting down because of the many problems and violations of patient and parent rights and ethical problems. I am guessing that will eventually -- and should -- happen here.

What is described in the article and the Jimmy Dore video is absolutely unethical and a betrayal to women. Any client has the right to know the clinical background and qualifications and relevant personal background of any counseling provider and also has the right to turn down treatment by a counselor for ANY reason at any time. It is their decision, not the clinic's and they don't have to present some kind of legal argument to do so. If a client didn't want to work with me because they didn't like my hair color that is their right.

Counseling is about the needs of the client, not the clinician or clinic management. The needs and interests of the client comes first. Period. End of discussion.

For those interested in learning more on the current trans crisis I urge you to check out the book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" by Abigail Shrier ( https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/168451228X )

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Mr. Raven's avatar

When is the left going to purge these pretenders? Marx did not put up with feminists and other interlopers in the International.

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