Mental health
fromPsychology Today
22 hours agoSexual Assault Survivors Are Not Responsible for Their Own Suffering
The effects of trauma from sexual abuse in adolescence are long-lasting and profoundly alter development.
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The parents argue that their children were 'allowed' to identify as transgender at school, which they claim violated their rights to determine their children's upbringing.
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Words such as 'relationship,' 'affair,' 'involvement,' or 'seeing each other' imply mutuality and consent. In the context of child sexual abuse, these implications are false. A child cannot legally or developmentally consent to sexual activity with an adult. Describing abuse using relational language risks distorting the inherent power imbalance and shifting perceived responsibility away from the adult perpetrator.
"I'm not broken. I'm not fixed. I'm just different," trans Kentucky resident Dr Bobbie Glass, who endured conversion practices in the 1970s, told the group. "Conversion therapy did not do anything to get rid of my transness. It made me feel super ashamed. It made me depressed. It sent me into clinical depression and years of anti-depressants and suicidality."