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Q: Why does WPATH insist that if kids or adults claim to be "trans," they REALLY ARE "trans," and that psychotherapy is pointless?
A: It's because WPATH slavishly follows the stupid whimsies of super-quack HARRY BENJAMIN, their great inspiration. This thread will explain.
A: It's because WPATH slavishly follows the stupid whimsies of super-quack HARRY BENJAMIN, their great inspiration. This thread will explain.
Harry Benjamin was born in Germany in 1884. He received his medical degree in 1912. He promptly hitched his wagon as assistant to a quack called Friedmann who was going to the USA in 2013 with an implausible tuberculosis "cure" -- using turtle fluids. Naturally, a scandal ensued.
Benjamin then became devoted to the crackpot ideas of Austrian quack Eugen Steinach. The first was that vasectomies would restore vim & vigor to middle-aged men. This is false. Steinach's true delight of quackery was "sex change" operations on guinea pigs. Benjamin LOVED this!
More about the Steinach operations, Benjamin and Steinach
Anyway, in the late '20s, Steinach introduced Benjamin to Freud. It did not go well. This is the main reason why sensible psychotherapeutic approaches are being called "conversion therapy" by "trans" industry flunkies like @jack_turban and the other "affirmative care" cultists.
More about Benjamin's irrational attitudes, by his friend and biographer Dr. Ethel Person.
And then? Benjamin glommed onto the famous "Christine Jorgenson" case and became his personal doctor. People started to listen to this super-quack, an utter fool. WPATH was formerly named for Harry Benjamin, changing its name in 2007.
These items are well worth a close read.
These items are well worth a close read.
Harry Benjamin's quackery of the 1920s!
Compulsory participation in Harry Benjamin's quackery
Harry Benjamin's Wikipedia page is grossly deficient. It's a white-wash, omitting all of his quackery except the "trans" quackery. It grossly minimizes his quackery with the "turtle vaccine." If you know how to fix up Wikipedia, this would be useful to do.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Benjamin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Benjamin
And yet, how f#cking blatant.
"Believe the child" - just what WPATH and "affirmative care" cultism of Ehrensaft, Olson-Kennedy and Turban et al say today.
This seems perfectly legit.
WPATH and AFFIRMATIVE QUACKERY derive straight from this con-man.
After tricking desperate folks with a fake TB cure made from turtle fluids (1913), WPATH patron saint Harry Benjamin got rich doing vasectomies on the 1920s version of yuppies.
WPATH and AFFIRMATIVE QUACKERY derive straight from this con-man.
After tricking desperate folks with a fake TB cure made from turtle fluids (1913), WPATH patron saint Harry Benjamin got rich doing vasectomies on the 1920s version of yuppies.
More Harry Benjamin fraudulent pseudo-science. Remember, all he is doing is vasectomies on these men.
The article notes that Benjamin's mentor Steinach is now experimenting on women. Within the next year or so, Benjamin added X-Raying of women's ovaries to his quackery.
The article notes that Benjamin's mentor Steinach is now experimenting on women. Within the next year or so, Benjamin added X-Raying of women's ovaries to his quackery.
WPATH "still reveres its links" to psycho-quack Harry Benjamin.
