jimm
8mo ago
Therapy is inherently opinionated.
Where are you getting this idea? It's certainly not true.
jimm
8mo ago
Therapy doesn't require accepting anything on authority. It's not particularly hard to tear people down by their own judgement without asserting any of your own, just by pointing at the things they try to look away from. There's no reason a LLM couldn't be trained to do that.
jimm
8mo ago
"Can people who have official government documents that document them as women, involve non-consenting members of the public in their use of spaces for women?" To which the obvious answer is: yes.
My completely male cousin had a drivers license that identified him as female due to pure governmental incompetence. I think even the most extreme trans advocates would agree that this ought not give him a pass to use the women's bathroom.
Passing the buck to the government only passes the buck. The question is over what exactly makes one a "woman" in the sense of deserving bathroom privileges, and the answer is not "the infallible government said so".
Yeah, he's already gone wrong there. That's not a problem with therapy though so much as this person's attempt to blow smoke up his own ass and call it therapy.
The opposite doesn't really work either though. If a human therapist says "Tim, I think you're delusional", the most likely result is broken rapport and Tim shopping for a new more gender affirming therapist. Even if the therapist managed to get enough buy in that Tim doesn't walk, he's still left with "Okay, I'm delusional. Now what? I still feel like shit." rather than "Okay thanks, all better!".
You really have to come at things without a pre-prescribed ending point in mind. Like, "I feel really shitty every time I look in the mirror and see a man. I feel like I am a woman, and that doesn't match what I see. What do we do about this?", and finding out what to do about it as you seek to understand the issue together. I guess it's pretty non-obvious how to do this effectively, now that I write it out.
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