I am almost 70 and a male homosexual. Live the full arc of the AIDS crisis. Much of the terrible health outcomes has to do with the very high number of sexual partners that gays have.
Thanks for writing this. I'm a physical therapist and I rolled my eyes when the APTA announced that they were going to be an "anti-racist" organization in 2020. What that meant is uncertain, but it showed how Marxism had infiltrated the profession.
The good news is that, in the clinic, this propaganda hasn't affected or influenced too many PTs. We continue to treat physical problems. If we suspect that someone's chronic pain might have psychosocial factors, we refer them to mental health, and that's that.
I've treated every race, gender (only two), transgender people, religion, and ethnicity in my 10 years as a PT, and never once has someone's sexual preference influenced my plan of care.
What happens when we find out that puberty blockers destroy orthopedic health, or uncover unintended consequences of gender transition surgery, or discover that transgender people have much higher rates of mental health issues versus cis people? Those facts ARE relevant, but something tells me Joe Tatta will prefer to ignore that data and will continue to advocate for more indoctrination in DPT programs.
That he even advocates for "supervision" of religious PTs shows how corrupt Tatta is.
There is no such thing as an “LGBTQ, etc.” community. As the article suggests, there are men and women with health issues specific to their sex. The self identified “trans” people have a lot of medical issues associated with transitions, if they are undertaken. Members of all the demographics in the alphabet string vary with respect to socioeconomic status, and some members have health issues associated with their ethnic genetics.
As usual, critical theory inaccurately reduces individual as well as group differences down to the oppressor/oppressed duality, even when the groups in question no longer suffer much discrimination on that basis.
My wife and I have had several occasions to seek the help of physical therapists. In our experience (and we both work in health care) they are some of the most well educated and competent health professionals out there. This is because their scope of practice has been well defined and evidence based. There is no other way.
I knew this was going on but it is appalling and dangerous. If I needed physical therapy and my therapist started to spout off about queer theory, or wanted to know my pronouns, I would tell her it was none of her business and walk out. Fortunately I live in a smaller conservative town and probably I am less likely to encounter woke medical professionals here - I don't think they would be tolerated.
No surprise here that physical therapy has followed medicine down the woke yellow brick road. The irony is that a key to healing from cross-sex ideation mental illness, using specific physical therapies, such as Alexander Technique for postural balance and Feldenkrais physical therapy (a unique approach originated by Moshe Feldenkrais, who was first trained in engineering) may be the best real pathway back to health for "gender patients." These frameworks meld mind/body awareness and ease of movement through release of too tight muscle groups and realignment of the spinal column to correct postural irregularities. The "affirmative care" pathway does the opposite, putting all sorts of strain and pain in joints and muscle groups while the patient tries to appear to move like the opposite sex, talk like the opposite sex and gesture like the opposite sex in stereotypical fashion. If psychotherapy is to be the recommended first approach to gender dysphoria, natural movement in mind/body methods like Alexander and Feldenkrais should be paired with the work of reconnecting where there was dissociation. My humble effort:
Once again the transgender movement has stolen directly from movements of actual points of discrimination. There are actual health disparities between black and white people due to access - I live in St. Louis, where segregation and racial housing covenants are the law and it upsets me that the language describing the experiences of black people on the North side (who currently are not getting the same attention by City of St. Louis as the wealthy neighborhoods for tornado recovery) as an example, to describe a population where many of the problems, if they exist, are self-inflicted. In fact, DEI was originally meant to provide access for everyone - that is how you got handicap accessible ramps, services for deaf people in a job, etc. But it has been co-opted by movements with agendas to control instead of include, and now people want to through out the baby with the bathwater.
They are still on the books in some places, and I have literally had white people in richer neighborhoods straight up tell me they don't want black people in the neighborhood. Like, in current times. So there doesn't even have to be anything on the books for racial discrimination to occur.
I won't comment on the individuals since that wasn't the purpose of my comment. The lingering but unenforceable covenants are something I was unaware of.
Racism is still very real, transportation and queerphobia are not which is why it upsets me that a study like this is co-opting the language of anti-racist movements.
I am almost 70 and a male homosexual. Live the full arc of the AIDS crisis. Much of the terrible health outcomes has to do with the very high number of sexual partners that gays have.
Thanks for writing this. I'm a physical therapist and I rolled my eyes when the APTA announced that they were going to be an "anti-racist" organization in 2020. What that meant is uncertain, but it showed how Marxism had infiltrated the profession.
The good news is that, in the clinic, this propaganda hasn't affected or influenced too many PTs. We continue to treat physical problems. If we suspect that someone's chronic pain might have psychosocial factors, we refer them to mental health, and that's that.
I've treated every race, gender (only two), transgender people, religion, and ethnicity in my 10 years as a PT, and never once has someone's sexual preference influenced my plan of care.
What happens when we find out that puberty blockers destroy orthopedic health, or uncover unintended consequences of gender transition surgery, or discover that transgender people have much higher rates of mental health issues versus cis people? Those facts ARE relevant, but something tells me Joe Tatta will prefer to ignore that data and will continue to advocate for more indoctrination in DPT programs.
That he even advocates for "supervision" of religious PTs shows how corrupt Tatta is.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments and for sharing your experiences and views as a practicing PT.
“Tatta also devotes little discussion to surgeries and hormone treatments in transgender persons and their implications for physical therapy care.”
There’s the rub. Years from now, you’d better shut up about how T-blockers probably melted your patient’s bones…or how we all knew they would.
There is no such thing as an “LGBTQ, etc.” community. As the article suggests, there are men and women with health issues specific to their sex. The self identified “trans” people have a lot of medical issues associated with transitions, if they are undertaken. Members of all the demographics in the alphabet string vary with respect to socioeconomic status, and some members have health issues associated with their ethnic genetics.
As usual, critical theory inaccurately reduces individual as well as group differences down to the oppressor/oppressed duality, even when the groups in question no longer suffer much discrimination on that basis.
My wife and I have had several occasions to seek the help of physical therapists. In our experience (and we both work in health care) they are some of the most well educated and competent health professionals out there. This is because their scope of practice has been well defined and evidence based. There is no other way.
I knew this was going on but it is appalling and dangerous. If I needed physical therapy and my therapist started to spout off about queer theory, or wanted to know my pronouns, I would tell her it was none of her business and walk out. Fortunately I live in a smaller conservative town and probably I am less likely to encounter woke medical professionals here - I don't think they would be tolerated.
No surprise here that physical therapy has followed medicine down the woke yellow brick road. The irony is that a key to healing from cross-sex ideation mental illness, using specific physical therapies, such as Alexander Technique for postural balance and Feldenkrais physical therapy (a unique approach originated by Moshe Feldenkrais, who was first trained in engineering) may be the best real pathway back to health for "gender patients." These frameworks meld mind/body awareness and ease of movement through release of too tight muscle groups and realignment of the spinal column to correct postural irregularities. The "affirmative care" pathway does the opposite, putting all sorts of strain and pain in joints and muscle groups while the patient tries to appear to move like the opposite sex, talk like the opposite sex and gesture like the opposite sex in stereotypical fashion. If psychotherapy is to be the recommended first approach to gender dysphoria, natural movement in mind/body methods like Alexander and Feldenkrais should be paired with the work of reconnecting where there was dissociation. My humble effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkwjJG3yog&list=PLOFlPPQm71Ii-l-xoAlBZc5Iy9xZyfbUY&index=23
Once again the transgender movement has stolen directly from movements of actual points of discrimination. There are actual health disparities between black and white people due to access - I live in St. Louis, where segregation and racial housing covenants are the law and it upsets me that the language describing the experiences of black people on the North side (who currently are not getting the same attention by City of St. Louis as the wealthy neighborhoods for tornado recovery) as an example, to describe a population where many of the problems, if they exist, are self-inflicted. In fact, DEI was originally meant to provide access for everyone - that is how you got handicap accessible ramps, services for deaf people in a job, etc. But it has been co-opted by movements with agendas to control instead of include, and now people want to through out the baby with the bathwater.
"where segregation and racial housing covenants are the law "
Don't you mean " used to be the law"?
They are still on the books in some places, and I have literally had white people in richer neighborhoods straight up tell me they don't want black people in the neighborhood. Like, in current times. So there doesn't even have to be anything on the books for racial discrimination to occur.
And I’m sure there are plenty of black people who would straight up tell you they don’t want white people in their neighborhood. Your point?
I won't comment on the individuals since that wasn't the purpose of my comment. The lingering but unenforceable covenants are something I was unaware of.
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1049052531/racial-covenants-housing-discrimination
It seems to me that those which have those lingering should be sued not just for compliance but for damages.
Racism is still very real, transportation and queerphobia are not which is why it upsets me that a study like this is co-opting the language of anti-racist movements.
Is there ANY vocation left that doesn't encourage you to be an activist? ffs.
Chick de-beakers have been silent, as far as I can tell.