How psychedelics help with gender identity and transition
…psychedelic medicines may provide a pathway for trans and gender diverse people to reconnect with themselves and increase access to gender affirmation, thus reducing the need for gender affirmation from others.
…the psychedelic community suffers from a highly gendered essentialized understanding in the physical sense too, where there are often two therapists in a room – one male, one female, and both, historically, cis-gender… there are ways to work with it at individual and communal levels, which means involving, recruiting, and looking to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks within the psychedelic research clinical movement in order to not continue to instantiate heteronormative practices, he adds.
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How psychedelics help with gender identity and transition
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