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"...describe the treatment of five transsexual patients who were among a larger series of transvestites by shock in an aversion therapy paradigm..."
This was the 1970s. I was born in the 1970s. I grew up knowing this is what they did to people like me https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1351349705071087616
This was the 1970s. I was born in the 1970s. I grew up knowing this is what they did to people like me https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1351349705071087616
I often see people tell me that everything is okay now. That transgender people are accepted. That you support us. I don't believe you. Gender identity disorder was still listed as a pathology in the DSM when I was hired as an academic in 2006 https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1351452671887204354
I work in a psychology department. I am an Associate Professor in one of Australia's top psychology departments, in fact.
I am still frightened by what my academic discipline has done to people like me, within my lifetime.
This is, to put it mildly, traumatic
I am still frightened by what my academic discipline has done to people like me, within my lifetime.
This is, to put it mildly, traumatic
I am doing my colleagues a courtesy by not naming any names, but I am acutely aware of how even the most progressive among you do not even pause to think about this history, or what impact it has on your transgender colleagues, every single working day of our lives
It is, well, kind of depressing actually
