Dr. Zucker Fights Back, and the APA's Special Exemption on Reparative Therapy

[Shana A]

Dr. Zucker Fights Back, and the APA's Special Exemption on Reparative Therapy Remains
Filed by: Mercedes Allen
February 6, 2009 3:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/dr_zucker_fights_back_and_the_apas_speci.php

Q: When is reparative therapy not reparative therapy?

A: When the patients are gender variant children. Then it's okay, or so the implicit judgment from the American Psychiatric Association would still seem to say. But more on that in a moment.

The debate surrounding one of the controversial doctors assigned to revise the diagnoses used for either treatment or invalidation of transsexuals (plural diagnoses, as in, Gender Identity Disorder or Transvestitic Fetish -- the latter of which poses the invalidation concern, whether it will ultimately be alongside a proposed theory of " ->-bleeped-<-" or merged with it) has taken a turn. Someone has stated that allegations against Dr. Zucker have been turned over to Canadian authorities, and in turn, Dr. Zucker has leveled legal threats against someone else who has posted a link to an article on a website on which it was mentioned.

[SomeMTF]

The repetative therapy used to transkids is extremely traumatic and creates severe mental difficulties. ( My first shrink tried some kind of reparative attitude and I have still anxiety and depression from that, even it was not a therapy.)

''We have a right to destroy people because of those hole gender roles''