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When mental health frameworks pathologize cultural identity

My therapist suggested I might have trauma around gender when really I just live in a world that doesn't understand what I've always known about myself.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic interventions harm when they interpret traditional identity expressions through the lens of dysfunction rather than cultural difference.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Two-spirit and indigenous gender traditions?”

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