Therapist Stephanie Winn says mental health professionals have abandoned their duty of care when treating transgender youth and fears the long-term effects.
and could risk losing their licenses if they try to treat gender dysphoria patients with anything besides transition therapy, according to Winn, who herself has faced such trouble.
Stephanie Winn, a marriage and family therapist, said the high rate of suicide ideation among trans youth is being falsely attributed to stigma and discrimination. The therapist believes mental health professionals, as a result, aren't doing their due diligence whenand are prematurely affirming and ushering kids down a path of medicalization. She said such professionals aren't adequately trying to determine if their patients' feelings of gender dysphoria are manifested from other frequently associated mental illnesses, rather than the other way around.
"We're just told that if someone tells you they identify in this way, that's the end of the story," Winn told Fox News."Don't ask any questions, just affirm, just agree, and then usher them along this path of medicalization."