James Esses is 30 years old this week and has done a lot of remorse. Last year he was banished from a psychotherapist training course (three years later). This is because we frankly discussed the fear that infants who are physically uncomfortable are being actively encouraged to make the transition. A few weeks later, Childline removed him from his volunteer role as a counselor for the same reason. After working as a criminal barrister, attending one night a week and attending charity for over 1,000 hours in five years, he was wary of more frequent such calls. Young caller. “Pain and wounds are still vivid,” he said of the subsequent battle with both institutions.
Until he joined Childline in 2016, he wasn’t very involved in the concept of gender identity – he feels trapped in the wrong body. But he remembers that the increase in those calls “caused something in my mind.” Esses wanted to start reading books and academic papers on this subject and better understand how to help. “Once I started reading, I started to be very interested in the medical pathways in which we carry very young children,” he says. The children on the other side said, “I was so young that I couldn’t even express the meaning of a man or woman exactly in words.”-Still they told Esse that they wanted to take puberty blockers and hormones. , Wear a breast binder and undergo a sex reassignment surgery.
Concerned, Esse raised the issue internally and was confused by the influence of Stonewall, a charity brought about by many organizations in the name of equality. The counseling room poster suggests a “gender ideological message,” and the Childline website describes gender identity as a “roadmap for the transition to health care.” It also features videos from individuals who have transitioned to “basically selling to young people …”. [with] Without mention Significant risks and potential permanent scars that can arise from demigrators and those who regret [it]“.
He talked to senior management, but nothing changed. As his online advocacy for protection continued, he was told not to mention charities or his role there. In July, Esse received a phone call to immediately dismiss him. “I was distraught,” he recalls, “the most important thing in my life” influenced his decision to leave the law and train as a psychotherapist, “smoke almost overnight.” Mareta”. NSPCC, the parent company of Childline, said: But unfortunately, I couldn’t find a compromise. “
Esses wrote an open letter to Childline. His “Catharsis Attempt of Closure”. He says he’s been involved in a lawsuit against former educator Metanoia University for much of the past year, and now he’s only able to put together such an idea. Preliminary hearings are scheduled to begin in June. He is currently crowdfunding £ 120,000 as a statutory cost, just over £ 95,000.
Four weeks before his e-mail expulsion, he petitioned the government to “protect evidence-based treatment for children suffering from gender identity” and received more than 10,000 signatures. Esses has also established a thoughtful therapist, a group of clinicians who are “deeply concerned” about the current hanging of public discourse. He states that these seem to be good reasons for his immediate dismissal. I wasn’t given a good reason why he was given the same sanctions as the one who committed physical or sexual assault on campus. He also says he was denied the opportunity to put his side or appeal the decision. When asked to comment, the university said, “We cannot comment on the ongoing case.”
All of this “irreparably hurt” his professional position in his “want to do the rest of my life” career. And the “low point” rolls, Esse says. In addition to legal struggles and personal pain when career is gone, it’s a serious social media abuse he suffers because of his belief that sex is immutable-he’s a partner or family member publicly telling him. You can’t risk being linked the same. He currently works in the public sector, but doesn’t specifically explain his role, saying “I already have some problems.”Targeted by activists from the other side“.
Still, he said, “This came as a personal expense to me, but I don’t regret anything because the stakes are simply too high.” If anything, being public only strengthened his stance. He is, in some cases, flooded with messages from his distressed parents who found a communication from the transgender charity Mermaid. (Mermaids did not respond to requests for comment.) Non-migrants who took medications that interfere with puberty and were left infertile or “permanently injured and injured” to show their support. I contacted.
It seems daunting that someone could be kicked out of the counseling job or treatment training that was coveted to question the best way to help vulnerable children. Esses is currently spending his days processing messages from peers who share his views, but he is too afraid to speak. But “the” trance “topic is a matter of our time,” Esse now recognizes that the “affirmative mindset” has taken hold and that deviations will result in a burning of a career like himself.
Part of the problem was school, and he heard many cases that “children of very young age are taught to have been assigned a gender at birth, which is virtually inaccurate.” Social media, where confirmation bias can be found in every corner of the Internet, also plays a role.As he thinks, the words used by mermaid-like organizations that tell children that “family is not blood” are “very, very marginalized.” [and] A phrase of “isolation” designed to “keep young people further away” from loved ones who may challenge their point of view. If the children were left to grow undisturbed, Esse said, “Given exploratory treatment for the given time, most of them settle on themselves and settle on their bodies.” increase.
He believes that sex reassignment surgery can be a reasonable last resort for adults who have run out of all options, exploratory treatment to reach the root cause of discomfort. However, he believes that the general impetus for migration is regressive. It is a product of society where only stereotypes can be calculated, rather than a subtle understanding of the fact that not all men or women comply with or need to comply with gender expectations. It remains unclear to him why surgery has become a widely accepted solution for mental illness. “Why do you treat gender identity with a medical transition when you don’t treat anorexia with liposuction?”
Queen’s speech It came as a relief to Esse and his companions. Laws banning conversion therapy extend to gender identity, “at risk of criminalizing exploratory therapies that are beneficial to vulnerable children of gender identity and further pushing children into a one-way path to medicalization.” There will be no.
He hopes this is a positive sign of travel direction and by the time he starts his family the problem is less of an issue. “If things stay the same, I’ll be afraid of my children,” he admits. It’s still unbalanced, as is the rest of his future.