{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist","title":"239. Sex Change Surgery Began as a Gay Cure: Tamara Sears on 100 Years of Gender Medicine","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5672,"description":"My guest is Tamara Sears, a British existential psychotherapist with 20 years in private practice who writes about censorship in the counseling profession. We work through her Substack article The Unfolding Scandal of Our Time, which traces more than a century of history behind today's gender medicine, from Magnus Hirschfeld's experiments in Berlin to Harry Benjamin, Christine Jorgensen and the American Psychiatric Association.\nTamara makes the case that so-called sex change surgeries began as an attempted cure for homosexuality. We look at how activists went from camping outside a women's music festival to lobbying the APA, what the DSM is and why it matters, and how the move from gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria erased the line between adults and children. She also explains why she rejects the term autogynephilia and what she'd call it instead.\nI came into this conversation with a question I've been sitting with: is this ever going away, or is it here to stay? Tamara's historical view gave me a lot to think about, and we close on what therapists can actually do now.\nStruggling to parent a child with gender identity issues? Take my free quiz to discover which archetypal themes you struggle with and how ROGD Repair can help.\nTamara Sears is a psychotherapist and counsellor in private practice for nearly 20 years. With a sharp focus on sex and relationship issues, she has worked extensively with the psychosexual issues of both men and women. She is a published writer who has been quoted in several mainstream newspaper outlets and has recently appeared on GBNews in the United Kingdom to address the censorship in the psychology, psychotherapy, and counselling professions there. Heavily critical of the Americal Psychiatric Association who she claims is largely responsible for ‘The Unfolding Scandal of Our Time’. Read her work on Substack at tamarasearsuk, follow her on X at tamarasearsuk, or find her practice at tamarasears.com.\nBooks mentioned in this...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7R2fJL6ksh0-aqhZGIKVghpF0n5-RelfaD139dcIBCQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI1NzQ0LzE2NDQy/NzA3NjktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}