The Mental Health Treatment Community has committed large-scale clinical malpractice with gender-disordered individuals who came for help and received blind affirmation therapy.

The reckoning has come

We may be experiencing the largest mass mental health malpractice episode in history.

The transgender craze has damaged hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide and mental health professionals have been a major part of the malpractice. People are finally waking up to this scandal as we are hearing daily reports of persons who identify as transgender doing terrible things or realizing they got caught up in a craze that was not good for them. Families of transgender individuals have been devastated. Psychotherapists and doctors are being sued for affirming without questioning.

Thankfully the American College of Pediatricians¹ just released an important position statement that all professional associations should adopt. The ACPeds focus is adolescents but the statement is applicable to everyone. Their conclusion is below:

The mental well-being of all adolescents is critical, both for them as individuals, and for the health of the family and community.  Therefore, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) urges parents and all health care professionals to promote and encourage prevention and treatment modalities that will assure optimal outcomes for those affected by sex/gender-identity incongruence, along with all mental illnesses.

However, from this review of the literature, there is strong evidence that children and adolescents who identify as transgender have experienced significant psychological trauma leading to their gender dysphoria.  Also, there is no long-term evidence that current “gender affirming” medication and surgical protocols benefit their mental well-being. High rates of suicide attempts and/or completions in those who have received “gender affirming” interventions indicate that at minimum, long term controlled trials should be conducted if these interventions are to be continued.  More attention and support should be afforded to individuals seeking help in de-transitioning after having made a decision during their formative adolescent years with life-long consequences, including possible sterility and loss of sexual function.  Therefore, the ACPeds cannot condone the social affirmation, medical intervention, or surgical mutilation of children and adolescents identifying as transgender or gender nonconforming.  Rather, intensive psychotherapy for the individual and family to determine and hopefully treat the underlying etiology of their gender incongruence should be pursued.

I laid out my Watchful Waiting approach for gender questioning individuals on a You Tube video in 2019, just as the activist wing of the gender delusion social contagion was heating up and before You Tube cancelled me. I drew heavily from the folks at ACPeds. A trans activist reported me to my licensure board for that video. Thankfully, the Board protected my free speech rights and did not elect to discipline me. I chose to take the path of least resistance at the time and did not get into a justification of my clinical approach. In retrospect I wish I had. Not only was I correct then but many lives could have been saved if professional counselors listened to me and the great folks at ACPeds and followed the Watchful Waiting Approach instead of rapidly affirming the gender preferences of their clients without providing thorough assessments and care for their whole persons. People have been badly damaged.

Addendum: The Daily Caller and the New American are reporting that a prominent researcher has come forward to report that her research article that showed children that took puberty blockers had an average IQ loss of between 7 and 15 points was rejected by four publications because they did not like her findings! That is a huge loss that provides another reason that elective puberty blocker treatment on children should never be done, and that the academic journal gatekeepers are part of the malpractice because they keep critical information from the public.

And this: Illinois Democrat Pushes Bill to Make It a Crime for Parents to Refuse to Affirm Child's Gender Dysphoria - The Maine Wire. In other words making malpractice required.

We have reached peak totalitarianism.

I have done a series of videos on Rumble about this topic. It is time our mental health treatment community acknowledges we made a monumental mistake. We ruined lives.

We are in crisis and we need to act now to save lives going forward.

1. I am an Associate Member of the American College of Pediatricians.