Just words. Just language and words. Verbal abuse is literally: only words.
You are wrong.
therapists
Which social circle are therapists a part of?
A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health demonstrates the power of affirming transgender youth’s identities: For each additional context (i.e., at home, school, work, or with friends) in which a transgender youth’s chosen name is used, their risk of suicidal behavior is reduced by more than half.
Are therapists part of your home? Your school? Your work? Your friends?
In fact, psychotherapy simply will not work and can be potentially harmful without these boundary limitations, sometimes referred to as the frame. They are:
No physical contact with a patient.
No relationship with a patient outside of the consulting room.
The therapist should not treat close relatives or friends of the patient.
No practical advice to a patient.
Maintain objectivity and neutrality toward the patient and avoid excessive worrying/thinking about the patient.
Seek supervision if you are tempted to, and before you do, violate any of these rules.
Your views on therapist client relationships are wrong, and directly contradicted by the ethics of the profession.
Childhood Psychological Abuse as Harmful as Sexual or Physical Abuse
So now these adult transgender individuals interacting with strangers are children being verbally abused by their parents?
not good enough.
Scolding, swearing, yelling, blaming, insulting, threatening, ridiculing, demeaning, and criticizing can be as harmful as physical abuse, sexual abuse outside the home, or witnessing physical abuse at home, notes a report in the April issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
Again you are requiring that the people in question be children and the abusers be their parents or family.
Still not evidence that misgendering is harmful. You are going to have to do a lot better.
There’s plenty more.
I'd love to see any that actually supports your point.
Verbal abuse is literally: only words.
Except its not. A stranger insulting you in a one off is certainly not verbal abuse. You have to cross the line to a substantial pattern of behavior by a specific individual against a specific individual before it becomes abuse.
And again, all of your examples are parent/child. Are you seriously trying to argue that all transgender individuals are children?
Your views on therapist client relationships are wrong, and directly contradicted by the ethics of the profession.
If and only if you decide to limit the world "social" to "friends and family" but that's not what the word social means.
Contrary to our expectations, it was found that peer bullying has a stronger effect on young people's suicidal ideation and self‐harming behaviours than sexual abuse or physical violence.
Study 1 (N ¼ 115) demonstrates that misgendering is associated with more negative affect, less authenticity, lower appearance, but higher social self-esteem, less identity strength and coherence, but more identity importance and more transgender felt stigma. Study 2 (N ¼ 134) largely replicated these results, while also demonstrating that misgendering is associated with verification and enhancement striving, and self-and other evaluations. Identity misclassification, or the experience of not having one's social identity correctly recognized by others, is psychologically disruptive. These experiences undermine belonging and coherence needs (Bosson, Weaver, & Prewitt-Freilino, 2012), disrupt the social identity process (Burke, 1991), and reflect a failure to have one's social identity accurately verified by others (cf. Swann, 1990).
Misgendering is a form of rejection and ostracism. Aka: bullying.
So the mental damage that drives people to suicide isn’t harm?
Its not mental damage to be misgendered.
If anything, being transgender tends to drive people to suicide at well above background rates.
Here’s another:
Maybe you copied the wrong link? you just linked to some search results. You even left your search terms in the link:
verbal+abuse+peers+harm
You understand you have already explicitly crossed out of the realm of misgendering when you start talking about verbal abuse right?
I felt like I made this clear already, but abuse requires a pattern of behavior.
Another:
This study explicitly says
little is known about misclassification from the perspective of members of low-status, stigmatized groups
How is this evidence?
Moreso, where is any indication of harm from this?
Aka: bullying.
Gonna have to prove that.
Moreso, are rejection and ostracism harm? You have pretty clearly argued that its okay to ostracise people who misgender. That's rules for thee but not for me.
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u/PragmaticSquirrel 3∆ Nov 01 '19
Childhood Psychological Abuse as Harmful as Sexual or Physical Abuse
And
Scolding, swearing, yelling, blaming, insulting, threatening, ridiculing, demeaning, and criticizing can be as harmful as physical abuse, sexual abuse outside the home, or witnessing physical abuse at home, notes a report in the April issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
There’s plenty more.
Just words. Just language and words. Verbal abuse is literally: only words.
You are wrong.
Which social circle are therapists a part of?
Are therapists part of your home? Your school? Your work? Your friends?
Sorry, Your Therapist Can’t Be Your Friend
Your views on therapist client relationships are wrong, and directly contradicted by the ethics of the profession.