The Multiple Identities ...of WPATH

A leaked chat about a patient with multiple identities is more than evidence of medical malpractice. It's a key that helps us unlock the whole, dark history of so-called gender affirming care.

One of the most disturbing revelations from last week’s leaked discussions among medics from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (sic) was that they medically transitioned a child suffering from what used to be called "multiple personality disorder".

To most observers it seemed as if the doctors in question had become disconnected from the consequences of their actions, which is apt since the new name for multiple personality disorder is Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID.

I mentioned this leak in my last post but it deserves more attention.

Dissociative Identity Disorder is more complex than common or garden dissociation, that experience of being disconnected from one’s feelings, thoughts and memories which is a feature of many mental health conditions and can be triggered in anyone by trauma, stress or anxiety. The Bible of mental health diagnosis, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or DSM) makes clear DID is dissociation with some significant bells and whistles. The DSM describes DID as:

…. “a disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession”.

Yes…two or more distinct personality states.

In most sufferers these distinct personality states seem like different people living inside their head. In the past DID was mainly reported in adults. Now, as the leaked conversation suggests, it appears to be on the rise among young people. That cannot be unconnected with the fact that social media -especially TikTok and Youtube- is infested with grifters who claim to have the condition and seek to normalise it.

The language, tropes and techniques used by them are often borrowed straight out of the trans copy book and their online content is constructed around the perennial favourites of the trans narrative :

what a person says about themselves is real and cannot be questioned.

refusal to validate a person’s claim about their inner reality causes pain and harm.

the physical body is a suit or shell which can be inhabited by someone who doesn’t belong there.

This is no accident. Let me take you on a journey back in time to show how dissociative identity disorder and the notion of being born in the wrong body have been joined at the hip from day one.