Carol Martin-Sperry

Retired couple and sex therapist, author: 'Sexual Healing: Stories and Insights from the Therapist's Couch' and 'Good sex Bad sex No sex' Art lover bibliophile

[Carol Martin-Sperry @CMartinSperry]

@DoctorPerin Treats the symptoms not the causes

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

Imagine you are counselling a disturbed child who hints that they have been sexually abused. But, rather than operating in a trauma informed manner, you go against ALL safeguarding training, ignore that disclosure, and instead push your own pet theory about why they are feeling disturbed onto them as a cure.

Sounds cruel?

Well, this is exactly how 'gender affirmative care' (GAC) operates. It exploits rather than heals a traumatic episode from a child's life. Thus, instead of helping that child work through the root of the trauma, GAC ignores that event and instead leverages the child's trauma and vulnerability to promote a 'cure'.

The 'cure', of course, is to pretend the child has been 'born in the wrong body' and thus must take puberty blockers, followed by cross sex hormones and surgery. The source of the trauma is thus ignored, and the original event will continue to negatively reverberate through all the developmental stages of childhood. The child is a victim of abuse, but this is shamefully ignored.

This approach is the very opposite of a trauma informed approach. But it is one ALL professionals working with children need to be mindful of. Failing to affirm the new gender of a sexually abused child will get you ostracised and reported. This is an area where using your professional curiosity will get you sacked.

Of course, this pro abuse practice is ever so convenient for those guilty of or complicit in child abuse. Once a child has been groomed/ coerced into a 'trans' identity by the abusers, any professional work that does not concentrate exclusively on affirming that identity is now a conversion practice. Instant sacking. And worst of all, organisations that should be protecting children support this practice and methodology.

'Gender affirmative care' is a charter for child abusers. I am ashamed of my social work 'profession'.

[Yal @Yalbano12345]

Yal Bano- Stuation of Women In Afghanistan.
https://t.co/R4zSiJvuHK

[Chocolatey - Purple-haired c*nt @WitchyMcWitch]

@jk_rowling Spot on.

Did you ever think we'd be living in a world where a court would decide whether over half the population should have a word to describe us...

[Yal @Yalbano12345]

We appreciate your all solidarity and support with afghan women in this hard time.
We Afghan women feel strong with you all.🥰
please don't forget us.
@WRNAfghanistan @WomensRightsNet @GreenPartyWomen @WDIAfghanistan @HeatherB_WRN @DeclarationOn @Womens_Voices_

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Sharing this for anyone who hasn't read it yet. It's a must.

Germaine Greer,
"On Why Sex-Change is a Lie," published in The Independent Magazine 1989

#ThisIsTrans

[Carol Martin-Sperry @CMartinSperry]

@thelizcarr @leakylike My life my death

[Carol Martin-Sperry @CMartinSperry]

Almodovar's English language film. Say yes to euthanasia.

[LGB Alliance @AllianceLGB]

We’re relieved to see the puberty blockers ban extended again, protecting vulnerable LGB youth from this homophobic medical practice. The real "conversion therapy" is the push to medicalise young people coming to terms with being same-sex attracted.

https://t.co/0rji8NasgI

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Donald Trump’s re-election accelerates a crisis for globalisation https://t.co/Rhkp5m01wy 👇

[Lance Forman @LanceForman]

@hzomlot @OxfordUnion Israel conquered the whole of the Sinai in the Yom Kippur war. A defensive war where it was attacked by all surrounding Arab armies.

It increased the size of Israel by 50%

BUT it returned it all to Egypt in exchange for peace.

Israel is not expansionist.

It just wants peace

[Carol Martin-Sperry @CMartinSperry]

@AlessandraAster @STILLTish Misogyny and racism have won

[Carol Martin-Sperry @CMartinSperry]

@DorothyPS Misogyny and racism, unlike the choice of leader of the Conservative party. We are so far ahead

[Carol Martin-Sperry @CMartinSperry]

Misogyny and racism, unlike the choice of leader of the Conservative party. We are so far ahead.

[Kay @IcarusFalling27]

@Psychgirl211 When I found out men masquerading as women could take part in miscarriage and stillbirth group counselling, with other women, and pretend that they lost a baby 😡 I felt levels of rage I'd never felt before, I was ready to go on a rampage 🤷‍♀️

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

This iconic photo is now part of Iranian history, capturing the deep frustration of women with the regime—a powerful statement against repression.