Transsexuals

2024: Russian psychiatrists begin treating transsexualism

In January 2024, the Russian Society of Psychiatrists published clinical recommendations (KR) for the treatment of sexual identification disorder, transgender people (the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation, activities are prohibited) are recommended to help reconcile with the congenital sex.

According to "[[ID Kommersant 'Kommersant]," according to this diagnosis, the Kyrgyz Republic has not existed in Russia since 2012, and psychiatrists returned to them against the background of the law banning gender change, which was adopted in 2023.

Russian Society of Psychiatrists published clinical guidelines for the treatment of sexual identification disorder

Russian psychiatrists claim that the main goal of psychotherapy in this case is to help patients accept their congenital sex. The proposed recommendations do not include surgical procedures or hormone therapy, but focus on developing an adaptive behavior model, resolving sexual conflict, and correcting disorders of psychosexual development.

The head of the narcological and psychiatric clinic, psychiatrist Ruslan Isaev, expressed his conviction that the proposals are absolutely normal, a competent specialist will help to consider all options. "Achieving realistic ideas about your own internal causes, goals" is what psychotherapists work with, he explained.

Psychotherapy allows you to see what can be done in reality, which seems dangerous, frightening, unbearable, - said Isaev in a conversation with the publication.

Representatives of the trans community criticize such proposals. They regard this approach as "conversion therapy." Transgender researcher Yana Kirei-Sitnikova said To the businessman"" that the effectiveness of this method has not been scientifically proven and from a technical point of view cannot be included in clinical guidelines.

One of the psychiatrists, on condition of anonymity, noted that by January 2024 there is not a single theory that would reliably indicate the causes and mechanism of sexual identification disorder, as well as there is not a single reliable clinical study that would show which way the patient's condition changes after one or another type of correction.^[1]

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