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Posted on 03/17/2026 11:03:42 AM PDT by ViLaLuz
Transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones represent downstream effects of a basic failure in therapy that sets patients up for long-term harm, warns a former trauma clinician who now crafts policy to protect people from these experimental “treatments.”
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The decision to “medicalize” a patient, rather than trying to treat underlying psychological trauma, traces back to a therapist’s lack of faith in his or her own abilities.
“If you really have hope that your method could change [the underlying issues], you’d keep it in your clinical space, but the fact that there isn’t a lot of hope for seeing these people change who are struggling with this distress, it’s like we have to outsource it to other ways of handling it,” argued Bauwens, director of American values at America First Policy Institute.
“I was trained to think that if I don’t have hope for a client, that’s time for a referral,” the former clinician explained.
“Goals of therapy should be, first and foremost, let’s reduce the distress that people are feeling over their bodies,” Bauwens argued. “It should not be, ‘Let’s transform their bodies to look like something else.’ We need to be about helping people to form their identity in what their biological sex is.”
“We don’t need people to become somebody else—that’s actually pathological,” she added.
An Ideological Echo Chamber The medical industry has started to move against “gender-affirming care,” but the psychotherapy profession is likely to lag, Bauwens warned.
The Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there is little evidence for positive impacts from transgender medical interventions on minors, but it found many documented harms.
A jury recently awarded a detransitioner $2 million, finding that the medical professionals who carried out sex-rejecting procedures on her were liable for medical malpractice.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a statement recommending against transgender surgery for minors under 19, leading other medical associations to follow suit.
Even so, Bauwens expressed skepticism that therapy will follow this trend.
“When I went for tenure track positions, one of the things that I was told was that we want you to take your students out and do protests,” she recalled. While most of the protests at that time centered on the Black Lives Matter narrative after the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, her experience revealed the activist bias in these schools.
She warned that many programs act “like a sort of think tank—if you will—for some of the Democratic policies that are being pushed.”
A 2012 survey found that liberals outnumber conservatives in psychology by a ratio of 14-to-1. Studies in 2019 and 2021 found a similar overall bias. According to OpenSecrets, health professionals contributed $35.3 million to Democrat Kamala Harris and only $11.5 million to Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 election cycle. The three top contributors gave 100% of their donations to Democrats and left-wing groups.
Bauwens noted the profession’s political slant, saying, “that gives you an idea of the research that’s coming out of the field, and what the worldview is that drives it, and also the practice and the training.”
She argued that the profession “needs to be reformed.”
“It needs to be dealt with, so that people can actually get help in their time of crisis and not be led astray,” Bauwens said.
Combating ‘Social Transition’
Last week, Bauwens released model legislation to protect children from “social transition,” the process of using female pronouns for a boy who identifies as a girl and treating him as a girl—or vice versa.
Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen B. Levine has argued that social transition “is a powerful psychotherapeutic intervention that radically changes outcomes,” making patients far more likely to take “puberty blockers,” cross-sex hormones, or full genital surgeries.
Bauwens cites research showing that without this intervention, 65% to 94% of minors who suffer from gender dysphoria will ultimately grow to resolve their discomfort with their sex.
Her draft legislation would designate social transition “a psychological intervention that lacks empirical evidence demonstrating effectiveness or safety as a treatment for gender dysphoria and has been documented to cause psychological and physical harm.”
The legislation would forbid adopting names or pronouns inconsistent with a minor’s sex; permitting access to sex-segregated spaces of the opposite sex; modifying school records or identification documents to contradict a minor’s sex; and providing resources to encourage a transgender identity.
In part by forbidding social transition, Bauwens aims to empower therapists to actually help patients resolve gender dysphoria, rather than encouraging them to go under the knife, altering their bodies to resolve what really is a mental struggle.
Giving therapists hope that they can resolve these problems for patients would go a long way toward a larger goal, she argued.
“We need to make therapy great again,” Bauwens said.
Between this crap and Covid, I have come to mistrust the medical profession.
I think the profession has too many sickos working in the field. Not all, I'm sure. But a lot.
I remember back in the 80s it seemed like the big message for everybody was "Your father sexually abused you. You may not think so. You may not remember it. But work with me and I will dredge up all kinds of horrible memories of your father sexually abusing you."
And, for decades a big message has been: "Your mother ruined your life. Oh,you disagree, but I will explain to you how your mother ruined your life."
Couples therapy? "It's the man's fault. Divorce him, honey! You'll be so much better off when you get that loser out of your life. He's abusive, you know."
Depressed? Out of sorts? "Let me throw some SSRIs at you. They won't help much and they may make you suicidal or even murderous, but I highly recommend them."
And most recently they've been suggesting that using sharp instruments to mutilate your genitals will make you a happier person.
In my opinion, it's an overwhelmingly harmful profession and most of the practitioners seem to need more psychological help than their patients.
Question: Do you really need a nut doctor to explain what it’s all about?
And big Pharma.
Certain medical practitioners love to experiment. MKULTRA, Mengele, Unit731, John Hopkins. Atrocities abound in the name of “research.”
There is no “pathological” mentality. This is a business, pure and simple. The people who run the pipeline want to make money and market transgender surgeries for profit.
Ask yourself. Why is every single school shooter, workplace shooter, family destroyer, tranny shooter, child suicide, etc already under treatment and taking psych drugs and/or an ECT victim? Every single one. Many in this profession know exactly what they are doing. They just want to see the world burn.
If this sick fad had any real medical intervention possibilities, it would make sense to first use the same sex hormones, not the opposite!
It’s like having a headache and chopping off your head to cure it.
It’s the latest money maker for amoral medical professionals as misguided and dangerous as lobotomy and electric shock.
Remember..that nonsense torture was going to get their minds right too.
It’s like having a headache and chopping off your head to cure it.
Guaranteed to work, permanently.
“The medical industry has started to move against “gender-affirming care”
mostly because the handwriting on the wall is showing that the whole evil bunch will soon be sued into penury and oblivion, and the more canny ones are cutting and running while the gettin’ is still good ...
I have never had a lot of faith in psychotherapy. Resorting to “gender confirmation” hormone treatment and surgery is an affirmation by the profession that psychotherapy is b.s. as well. So I guess we should just accept that delusional behavior is untreatable.
strip away the cosmetics and there is only a person under all.that mental derangment.
you are who you are, putting lipstick on doesnt make you a woman. Thats why you need to be removed from society. To be who you really are. Cry like a little b*tch . Because in the long run, all you want is someone to do everything for you that's hard .
that's it, transgender men want someone to do all the heavy lifting and take care of their every need. Like a pretentious woman.
trans men, you are all just little bitchy, emasculaed men. You are not nor will you ever be a woman.
my dad would have slapped the crap.out of me if I ever said I was a girl. Ill bet these trans men have no manly father figure.
As for trans women..... that's for a other post.
Follow the money. It’s that simple. There is big money in treating people with supposed gender dysphoria both medically and psychologically.
Legitimate trust issues!
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