Benjamin Ryan is right to urge caution. Too many people like Matt Walsh celebrated pompously and rather cockily, self-congratulating their obnoxious attitude during the culture war. This shouldn't be about winning a culture war, but about protecting youth… and that battle is far from over.
Where I agree that the focus of any therapeutic practice with a client is what is in the client's best interest, and with Gender Ideology, any response can be called political. Exploring feelings and experiences around "gender identity" is considered political, and affirmation is considered political, too. I can't imagine that any professional today is truly neutral, without a basic agreement or disagreement with the tenets of transgenderism, especially when it comes to minors. I can understand avoiding Matt-Walshing it, but even exploration can be considered bigotry in the current climate.
Benjamin Ryan is right to urge caution. Too many people like Matt Walsh celebrated pompously and rather cockily, self-congratulating their obnoxious attitude during the culture war. This shouldn't be about winning a culture war, but about protecting youth… and that battle is far from over.
Where I agree that the focus of any therapeutic practice with a client is what is in the client's best interest, and with Gender Ideology, any response can be called political. Exploring feelings and experiences around "gender identity" is considered political, and affirmation is considered political, too. I can't imagine that any professional today is truly neutral, without a basic agreement or disagreement with the tenets of transgenderism, especially when it comes to minors. I can understand avoiding Matt-Walshing it, but even exploration can be considered bigotry in the current climate.
Please correct my blind spot.