Why do psychotherapists harm children?
Some think they are being nice. Some are delusional warriors.
We have a visible case up here in Maine that involved a school social worker who decided to help a 13-year-old girl transition to a boy without informing the girl’s parents. The parent found a chest-binder in the girl’s room. This was my response.
The psychotherapists who participate in this malpractice are ideologically blinded by their belief that gender fluidity is a rampant under-reported phenomenon and it is their task as civil rights therapists to affirm and assist this (delusion). Many of these warrior therapists are transitioners themselves or are LGBTQ. Many of them are just good Progressive ideologues who virtue-signal their fidelity to wokeness.
The research does not support their belief that gender fluidity is normal or that transitioning will make them happy. These warrior therapists are so committed to the delusion that they believe they have a moral duty to go around parents or anyone else who might be in the way. This is cult thinking. It is dangerous.
The warrior therapists that do this work need supervision and reeducation during a period of absence from work. Many of them should not return to work as therapists because they do not have the requisite psychological make-up to do the job ethically. Many of them can be reinstated after the re-education period.
Unfortunately, the Social Worker Board in Maine and in many other states seems to be ensconced in the delusion. Most of the boards appear to be captured by political ideology. Thus, we need new licensure boards and new professional associations.
Other professional organizations are also captured.
The enablers of this delusion at the schools or regular citizens in their communities need a better understanding of this phenomenon and they need to decouple their political ideology from their decision-making. They want to support these kids (and be good Progressive people), but they are doing serious harm by their actions. This is a tragic consequence of the woke contamination in society.
We need a revolution in mental health care that helps us rediscover common-sense.