01/30/2025
As a licensed mental health professional, I feel ethically bound to call out our so-called president's lies in referring to transgender people. His latest executive order includes a shift in language which labels all transgender people as liars, dishonorable, and unstable. He has used more shielded language previously, but this latest fiat is clearly and explicitly inaccurate, intentionally bigoted, and dangerous.
It is also 100% counter to the prevalent view of all organizations of mental health & medical professionals, both in the U.S & international. The fascist enrobed as our President believes that his perspective is superior to that of educated, trained, and licensed professionals who have studied this issue in depth for decades.
There is nothing else to call this except extreme narcissism.
Check for more details on his executive order, which will hopefully face some legal challenges; a great source is Erin Reed. Their commentary can be found here
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-chilling-line-trump-just-crossed?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
A few key lines of summary are these:
"I don’t know where we’re heading as a country, nor what further attacks await transgender people. Even as I write this, Trump has issued yet another executive order—this time, attempting to ban transgender care for youth nationwide by executive fiat. The rapid escalation of these assaults on the trans community, in just over a week of his presidency, paints a grim picture of what lies ahead. Many transgender people I know have already fled to safer states, or even left the country entirely. Some have urged me to do the same—a decision I cannot bring myself to make, though I cannot fault anyone who does. What I do know is that a line has been crossed, one that feels impossible to uncross. The question now is not just where we go from here, but how, or if, we can walk back."
With the latest trans military executive order, the administration has given up all pretense of "evidence-based care," and has moved to the kind of dehumanization meant to justify atrocity.
