Aster Edelsmid

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@thepearjoseph Because GC is now a movement that requires the same level of ideological purity as the GAC. Clinicians actually working with gender distressed youth have realized that ideological purity does not help these kids and their families.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@pgarfieldjaeger Just read your substack on Zoom therapy. Do you know about PsyPact? It allows doctoral-level clinical psychologists to practice tele-therapy in over 40 states. There are strict ethical and clinical standards for such work. It’s not a free for all.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@pgarfieldjaeger So, you don’t work directly with gender dysphoric young people. Curious why you don’t believe in zoom therapy for kids. How about for adolescents and young adults? What do you think brings about desistance?

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@pgarfieldjaeger Actual clinical work has little connection with the culture wars that activists on both sides want to fight. It’s time for clinicians who are engaged in the very complex and demanding work with GD kids to talk with each other.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@pgarfieldjaeger @JonathanShedler Do you work with gender dysphoric adolescents? Could you talk about your clinical process?

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@JonathanShedler @dr_shalts Personally? I don’t want to hear from anyone who isn’t in the clinical trenches working with gender dysphoric adolescents. It’s actually easy to create gender affirming or gender critical “content”. Sitting with the kids takes stamina and clinical chops.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@IsleLesbos @LGBCourage Because that’s all he’s got!

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@LGBCourage It doesn’t take “years and years” of therapy for an adolescent to sort through gender dysphoria. In most cases, with an experienced therapist, the issues begin to resolve within a year.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@LGBCourage It all seems to boil down to perception replacing recognition, with recognition being the more relational concept.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@SharmaSumi15801 @AntiWokeMemes @jk_rowling The DSM is not worth the paper it’s printed on.

[ANCA @ANCA_DC]

Calling on @RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump @GovRonDeSantis @NikkiHaley @GovChristie @Mike_Pence & @SenatorTimScott to join with @VivekGRamaswamy in condemning #Azerbaijan's genocide of #Artsakh's 120,000 indigenous Christian Armenians?

#120000Reasons to vote | 2024

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@LynnKuok @MaxBoot He doesn’t care. Why do people not understand that?

[Therapy First @TherapyFirstOrg]

Detransitioners give us a window into the reasons why people may not benefit from medical interventions, which can better equip clinicians to be aware of patterns and warning signs when working with clients at the start of these interventions. https://t.co/dfwPKQg6Z5

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@blm1612 @LeorSapir Trans adults can be legitimate without the existence of “trans kids”. Leave kids alone. Most gender non conforming kids are proto-gay. Stop transing the gay away!

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@LeorSapir As a clinical psychologist who works with gender questioning young people, I can say that 8-12 months into a therapy that is neutral on gender transition and curious about what else is going on, most of the natal females are starting to desist.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@TaylorAdvocate It’s important to recognize that the process of transitioning never ends. There’s no endpoint to it because biology will not fully acquiesce to human will or imagination. Trans women are men who will spend their resources and imaginations to sustain an expensive delusion.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@TaylorAdvocate We should really say “trans women are trans women” and leave it at that.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@heterodorx Trans women are trans. That’s the best I’ve got.

[Aster Edelsmid @AsterEdelstizc]

@SIfill_ So should having kids. Most people should not be having or raising children.