Maybe we’re seeing a change?

I’ve been feeling a lot better about things since publicly writing about a piece of research on trans youth by a woman who has openly written against conversion therapy bans and signed open letters against trans people, and people have finally just taken it and run with it. Loads of people reaching out for help with making complaints to the university, looking into complaining to her professional regulator and so on.

I can’t emphasise enough how much of a negative impact it has had on my mental health that I’ve been reporting conversion therapists to professional medical and therapeutic bodies in the UK for over 2 years, facilitating survivors to make complaints and in the end the bodies just shrug their shoulders and say "well they say they aren’t a conversation therapist so it’s the survivors word against theirs. Look it even said in their notes that they told you they’re not a conversion therapist they just want you to explore all the options including not being trans" (not a literal quote, so much as an amalgam of responses to serious credible allegations of conversion therapy).

The ignorance seems so blatant it surely has to be malice. Like going to a sexual health clinic to pick up prep and having a HCP ask if rather than taking prep you've tried stopping being gay.

The lack of concern in psychotherapy and medicine for doing anything about blatant abuse allegations in the UK is appalling.

What we really need is to despecialise most gender medicine so that it’s ordinary doctors…