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https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/bill/C-6/first-reading?s=01
Bill C6 presumes the existence of a universal experience of having a "gender identity" ... How do we identify, verify or measure "gender identity"? If we can't, then how can a clinician know of its existence outside of client self-report?
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Bill C6 presumes the existence of a universal experience of having a "gender identity" ... How do we identify, verify or measure "gender identity"? If we can't, then how can a clinician know of its existence outside of client self-report?
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R individuals ever confused? Isn't the point of MH services 2 have professional support in teasing apart complex & frightening inner & outter experiences?
Should clinicians affirm all the time?What makes "gender identity" special that it must be taken at face-value as fact?
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Should clinicians affirm all the time?What makes "gender identity" special that it must be taken at face-value as fact?
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What if a clinician does not subscribe to a-ghost-in-the-machine metaphysics, but rather understands the human condition as informed via a mix of biological and social influences; not gendered souls?
Is it the place of Canadian legislation to dictate spiritual matters?
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Is it the place of Canadian legislation to dictate spiritual matters?
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We R born in2 sexed bodies & experience sex-based biological differences, sex-based socialisation & sex-based social expectations re gender behaviour/dress.
Material reality, binary sex classes & biological&social influences on psych development R scientifically supported.
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Material reality, binary sex classes & biological&social influences on psych development R scientifically supported.
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What science supports the claim of the existence of "gender identity? Of a magic gendered essence that is misaligned with our very real, very identifiable, very measurable sex bodies?
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How can a clinician be (allegedly) converting a client from "trans" 2 "cis" when neither has a definition or (alleged) existence outside of private experience? The concepts of "cis" & "trans" are *purely* subjective w/ no means of verification, identification or measurement.
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Also, riddle me this: if gender is allegedly fluid, then how can it also be immutable?
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I worry re the impact of Bill C6 on clinical care for children,youth&adults living w/ various MH issues (eg trauma, grief&loss, CSA, dysphoria, dysmophia), neuro issues, vulnerabilities (foster kids) & LGB pop presenting with complaints of dysphoria, desire to transition.
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Which clinicians will take the risk to work w/ complex issues like dysphoria & transition when the consequence of a perceived misstep around a vaguely defined and objectively inaccessible concept can be imprisonment?????
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IMPRISONMENT for breaking a law with ill-to-not-fucking-at-all defined terms like "cis", "trans" & "gender identity"? Who would risk this?
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Who will engage in practice 4 dysphoria given that Bill C6 demands "affirm only" tx, which presupposes the existence of an immutable, objective-but-only-subjectively-accessible/identifiable/verifiable/measurable "gender identity" to which we are all either "cis" or "trans"?
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Bill C6 makes demands few ethical and competent clinician will be willing negotiate.
Bill C6 will inhibit exploration of feelings, sensations, experiences & thoughts.
Bill C6 demands clinicians subscribe to a pseudo-religious world view.
Bill C6 will compromise care.
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Bill C6 will inhibit exploration of feelings, sensations, experiences & thoughts.
Bill C6 demands clinicians subscribe to a pseudo-religious world view.
Bill C6 will compromise care.
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