Herein I continue a report which goes beyond simply dealing with Dr. Zucker, I review how a medical facility has basically been forced to change its science based methods due to socio-political feelings based activism. These changes are officially admitted to be based on how “society has also shifted in its understanding and acceptance of gender variance.” That medically trained personnel are to “Refrain from treatment of the child that targets reduction of gender-variant behaviors or use of language that pathologises these.” And also, how there are such things are “gender-affirming hormones.”
I will break up this report so as to cover trans-suicide causes, Dr. Zucker’s ousting from academia and the external review of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health—find all segments of this report here.
In March 18, 2015 AD Jessica Smith Cross write the article, “Outcry prompts CAMH to review its controversial treatment of trans youth,” Metro News (FYI: CAMH is the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). So, does life imitate art or does art imitate life? Does the outcry lead to the treatment being considered controversial or does the treatment’s being controversial lead to the outcry? Well, Cross writes that the issue arose “because of outcry from the public” specifically “complaints, particularly from the trans community, that its services ‘weren’t respectful’ of patients’ gender identity.” Well, supposedly not being “respectful” is not a scientific issue but is an ethical one.
This is the tie in with my aforementioned research into the history of the change in views—within the medical as well as societal realms—of LGBTQP about which you can read in History of homosexual socio-political psychiatric activism, part 1 and part 2.
One issue was that Dr. Zucker’s “‘conversion therapy’ or ‘reparative therapy:’ [was] designed to stop people from being gay or transgender” as “he believes it is both ethical and possible to direct a young child’s gender identity to match their biological sex.” Apparently, since this was “a population that already has an increased risk of suicide” then everyone should give in to their feelings and tolerate or accept or approve or not dare voice an opinion. Statements by LGBTQP activists were, for example, that “you cannot change who they are” which is a mere assertion and in fact, there are very many people who not only can change but must change and we all demand that they do so or we lock them up in prisons for decades for various and sundry crimes.
The activism is so very militant that a “bill last week that would ban reparative therapy” and demands were made that “it should be illegal in Ontario” so that now a trained and experienced therapist becomes the criminal. This is even though, “there are two different ‘camps’ of professional thought on the issue…some believe it works…there are a camp of professionals who do believe in conversion or reparative therapy.” Yet, the came that disagreed with the LGBTQP commandments de jour should be censored and criminalized is the point being made.
Prior to Cross’ article in January 29, 2014 AD Atana wrote the article, “It’s official: Dr. Kenneth Zucker is a criminal in California,” Daily Kos. Although I should not say that Atana “wrote” it as it is merely a copy and paste job from the activist LGBTQ Nation: I mean LGBTQ Nation how militant can you get? Try getting away with establishing an organization called “White Nation” and see how much media and cultural praise you receive.
In any regard, the article(s) notes “a California law that prohibits psychological counseling aimed at changing a minor’s sexual orientation.” Note the parenthetical editorializing statement in the following direct quotation, “reparative therapy (i.e. torture) for transgender minors, is now a criminal in the state of California” thus, Dr. Kenneth Zucker is a criminal and his therapy is torture but wait, there’s more as this was “psychiatric / psychological human rights abuse.”
We are told that this is “California’s first-in-the nation law barring licensed counselors from offering treatment geared toward changing the sexual orientation of minors.” Now, of course, the key is how to define, “sexual orientation” because if sexual orientation is how a person was born then LGBTQP activists will be the criminals and their getting little kids hooked on hardcore drugs will be seen as torture. But no, sexual orientation goes back to the issue of feelings: of course, what happens to a little girl who was a Tomboy who was manipulated by activist parents to have radically invasive surgery and take years and years worth of drugs to become a “male” but then realizes later in life that they are just a good ol’ fashioned Tomboy woman?
The article(s) refers to youngsters who are “being deceived and harmed by unethical therapists who falsely claim they can change a person’s sexual orientation.” But what of youngsters who are being deceived and harmed by unethical LGBTQP activists who falsely claim they can change a person’s sexual nature?
This got so outrageous that wild speculations flew as Jesse Singal noted in his article “A False Accusation Helped Bring Down Kenneth Zucker, a Controversial Sex Researcher,” New York Magazine, January 27, 2016 AD.
As it turns out an “external review” of CAMH took place which “leveled an array of serious, mostly un-sourced allegations” and “the most incendiary charge concerned Zucker himself: that he had asked an adolescent trans man to take off his shirt, laughed at him, and then called him ‘a hairy little vermin,’ causing the client great distress” something which the “trans man” later admitted never happened, “CAMH had acknowledged the ‘hairy little vermin’ accusation was false, and had taken down the External Review from its website. What was the link to the Review now points to a PDF of a ‘summary’ of that review instead” which I will review next. In fact, note that “there’s fairly solid evidence that neither CAMH nor the authors of the review made any effort to verify that [the “trans man”] Adam was actually a patient before posting his claim on the hospital website, leading to its widespread dissemination in news accounts” and that “Neither CAMH administrators nor the review authors responded to questions about the fact-checking process.”
CAMH’s Public Affairs office told me, “As an employer, CAMH has not issued such a statement” as I asked for “any statements by CAMH as to why Kenneth Zucker is no longer on staff” and they added “Our public statements and media releases are available on our website” and they provided their generic URL.
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