"Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals should employ modes of assessment that encourage the pursuit of truth. They must view this pursuit as central to their commitment to responsibility and remain skeptical of cultural idioms that come and go, such as the adolescentās plaintive cry in transgender cases: āI am a boy trapped in a girlās body!ā This cry is never a factual report about the reality of her or his sex, but usually a cry for help, seizing upon a newly coined āidiom of distressā: āIām so fearful and unsure of myself and my future, I must, as others claim, be living in the wrong body, trapped in the wrong sex.ā Psychiatrists help not by āaffirmingā the bizarre conclusion but by seeking and treating the source of the generating fears."
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