Investigations, Illuminations & Inspirations
Stephanie Winn, aka some therapist, muses about the inner wilderness, relationships, social issues, personal transformation – and suddenly finding herself a maverick in the spotlight.
Is Therapeutic Neutrality a Thing of the Past?
Only within the container of a society in which we mostly agree on the boundaries to what constitutes basically acceptable human behavior within some normative range can there exist enough freedom to play with choices that can be viewed as equally morally acceptable.
The Breast Binding to Mastectomy Pipeline
To better understand the harms of breast-binding, we need to understand the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions — and why modern gender dysphoria is a whole lot like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
ROGD Awareness Day: Welcoming Home the Girly-Girls
Some of us have been witnessing this trend: a growing number of quite-young women, sometimes even minors under 18, are coming out as detransitioning or desisting, who are straight, and quite feminine, or female-typical, by nature.
A Representative Exchange
As U.S. Citizens, we reach out to our representatives in hopes we may have an open dialogue with them. Sometimes, a representative exchange falls on deaf ears. Recently a concerned mental health provider experienced the uncomfortable feeling of her voice being shut out
Waiting for Love
Taking care of your heart and cultivating your character when detransitioned and single
How to File a Complaint About the Fraudulent “Gender-Affirming” Therapy That Harmed You
A guide for detransitioners, lost-in-transitioners, and other survivors of gender malpractice
Filling the Inner Void of Neglect
Helping a detransitioner grapple with shame about “love addiction relapse”
Sisyphus’s Post-Trans Purgatory
On navigating the ongoing suffering of regret when you have a family to feed
Christopher’s Story Continues
A detransitioned man elaborates on the complexities of his hardships
Dear Laura, part 2
On navigating new relationships as a detransitioner when you’re still quite vulnerable
Dear Laura, part 1
How can a detransitioned woman grieve the loss of her breasts while reclaiming her relationship with femininity and womanhood?
What’s the Harm in Affirming?
Therapy trainees are inundated with messaging about the supposed virtues of “gender affirming care.” But where can therapists go to learn about the drawbacks of this model, and the unique needs of those who have been harmed by it?
Open letter to the Florida Board of Medicine
“Gender-affirming care” doesn’t save lives. It destroys them.