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Gender: A Wider Lens

150 - The Consumerism of Gender-Affirming Care with Leor Sapir

Feb 16, 2024
Leor Sapir, an expert in gender-affirming care, joins Sasha and Stella to discuss the consumerism of gender-affirming care, bans on gender-affirming care in the US, fostering of narcissism, and parallels with the recovered memory craze from the 1990s.
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Quick takeaways

  • The current consumer-driven model of gender-affirming care dismisses the role of therapists and promotes patient responsibility, potentially inflating entitlement and reinforcing narcissistic tendencies in patients.
  • The golden mean fallacy in reporting on gender-affirming care fails to consider the lack of robust evidence and conceptual frameworks supporting transitioning children, highlighting the need to delay decisions until adulthood to avoid potential harm.

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Gender Affirming Care Shifts Responsibility to the Patient

The podcast episode explores the concept of gender affirming care and how it places the responsibility on the patient, even at a young age. The episode highlights that this approach dismisses the role of the therapist and promotes a consumer-driven model of care. It is noted that therapists may act more like coaches or facilitators, helping the patient assert their identity in different domains of life, rather than engaging in traditional therapeutic processes. The episode emphasizes the potential dangers of this approach, including the risk of inflating entitlement and reinforcing narcissistic tendencies in patients. It calls for a reevaluation of the role of therapists in gender-affirming care and the need to balance patient autonomy with professional expertise.

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