Therapist blows whistle on hospital pushing teen gender transitions: 'Desperate to help my patients'
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A Washington therapist said she quit her job over the uncritical demand and pressure she faced to approve transitioning her young and troubled patient's gender.
"I was getting the message from my supervisors that when a young person I was seeing expressed discomfort with their gender—the diagnostic term is gender dysphoria—I should throw out all my training. No matter the patient’s history or other mental health conditions that could be complicating the situation, I was simply to affirm that the patient was transgender, and even approve the start of a medical transition," she wrote in a new op-ed for The Free Press. Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Read more.
"I believe this rise of "affirmative care" for young people with gender dysphoria challenges the very fundamentals of what therapy is supposed to provide," Pietzke argued.