ArticleJournal of medical ethics2024
Supporting autonomy in young people with gender dysphoria: psychotherapy is not conversion therapy.
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- Detransition, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Moral Injury.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- The Cass Review and Gender-Related Care for Young People in Canada: A Commentary on the Canadian Paediatric Society Position Statement on Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- A scoping review of the ethical issues in gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Experiences and narratives of mandatory psychological assessment in Trans and Nonbinary people: An Italian qualitative analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Citation Issues in the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents (Rafferty, 2018).Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Implications of the Cass Review for health policy governing gender medicine for Australian minors.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- Adaptive transition decisions and identity exploration among transgender and nonbinary persons exposed to gender identity conversion efforts.International journal of transgender health · 2025Article
- Lived experiences: Exploring detransition narratives.International journal of transgender health · 2025Article
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for gender dysphoria is not conversion therapy.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2024Article
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Abstract
Opinion is divided about the certainty of the evidence base for gender-affirming medical interventions in youth. Proponents claim that these treatments are well supported, while critics claim the poor-quality evidence base warrants extreme caution. Psychotherapy is one of the only available alternatives to the gender-affirming approach. Discussion of the treatment of gender dysphoria in young people is generally framed in terms of two binary approaches: affirmation or conversion. Psychotherapy/exploratory therapy offers a treatment option that lies outside this binary, although it is mistakenly conflated with conversion therapies. Psychotherapy does not impose restrictive gender stereotypes, as is sometimes claimed, but critically examines them. It empowers young people to develop creative solutions to their difficulties and promotes agency and autonomy. Importantly, an exploratory psychotherapeutic process can help to clarify whether gender dysphoria is a carrier for other psychological or social problems that may not be immediately apparent. Psychotherapy can therefore make a significant contribution to the optimal, ethical care of gender-dysphoric young people by ensuring that patients make appropriate, informed decisions about medical interventions which carry risks of harm and have a contested evidence base.
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