Sebastian Barr, PhD

🎶 Almost heaven, Massachusetts
  Pioneer Valley, queer folks in abundance
  Coffee shops and bookstores, rainbow flags that fly
  Dykes on bikes at Pride, under the gay sky

  Cunty roads, take me home 🎶

I also referenced @floralashes.bsky.social's amazing 2022 article on Exploratory Therapy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria? Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

My take on the psychotherapy claims in the HHS report:
lots of conflation and false binaries, and the unnamed authors misused data about affirming psychotherapy approaches to try to argue that *non-affirming* approaches are supported by the evidence.

sebastianmbarr.substack.com/p/is-psychot...

Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria? Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

Thank you for leading the way on fact checking this propaganda. Your work really shifted the way other journalists and outlets started covering this.

I'm a psychologist and trans man and I just wrote a thorough response to the psychotherapy sections.

sebastianmbarr.substack.com/p/is-psychot...

Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria? Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

As a practicing psychologist, PhD-level researcher, and trans man, I couldn't stay quiet on the HHS report's misrepresentation of the literature on psychotherapy for youth with gender dysphoria.

I review the psychotherapy sections and contextualize and challenge the conclusions on my substack.

Politics of gender-affirming care, Russia’s pursuit of Ukrainian territories A new report from Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services tries to discredit gender-affirming care, contradicting leading medical experts who say it can save lives.

I was just on NPR Member Station KCRW's "Press Play" where I fact check the Trump HHS Review targeting transgender healthcare.

Listen to me speak here:

www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

Yeah… this HHS review isn’t going so well for them.

Watch how CNN is covering it.

“Conversion therapy using friendlier language”

“Peer reviewed but they won’t say by who”

Is Psychotherapy Really the Safest and Best Approach for Gender Dysphoria? Contextualizing and Challenging the Psychotherapy Sections of the HHS Report on the Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria

As a practicing psychologist, PhD-level researcher, and trans man, I couldn't stay quiet on the HHS report's misrepresentation of the literature on psychotherapy for youth with gender dysphoria.

I review the psychotherapy sections and contextualize and challenge the conclusions on my substack.

Screenshot from the new propaganda out of Trump's HHS against trans youth and evidence-based and ethical gender affirming care. There's a whole section about Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson and their "whistle-blowing." Makes me sick. We warned them. I'm feeling so angry & sad.

Hello! Yes. I have paid access through my website now: www.transpsychologist.com/webinar and you can email me if you need free access.

Allies do not let friends and family uncritically read the New York Times' coverage of trans issues.

www.advocate.com/voices/inste...

This is why we need folks highlighting the difficult realities trans people face. Not for a one dimensional victim-oriented narrative that denies the joy and meaning in our lives, but bc NYTimes et al promote distorted stories about us & what we're dealing with. www.advocate.com/voices/inste...

We wrote this a few months ago, and I keep revisiting this question of how we can stop dehumanizing others, particularly the most marginalized among us. We have to see others’ full humanity to find liberation for all. #psychscisky

LGTBQIA+ Peer Respite Start-Up []

I just donated $500 from my webinar proceeds to Wildflower Alliance's LGBTQIA+ peer-based respite. Join me in supporting their fundraising for an LGBTQIA+ respite center & mobile response. This is an incredible & needed expansion of their peer support work. wildfloweralliance.org/donations/lg...

You're a good one, Mel. Thanks for all you're doing

Screenshot of confirmation of $1,000 donation to Trans Youth Emergency Project

I just donated $1000 from my webinar proceeds to @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Project. Consider joining me in supporting their work. Efforts like this are a critical component to supporting trans wellbeing in the coming months/years. southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/37

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday. It was really meaningful to me & I've received positive feedback from folks in attendance.

For folks who didn't register beforehand, the recording will be available for a sliding scale fee w/a portion of proceeds going to orgs doing on the ground work.

"Extreme" fear and preparation behaviors Gender dysphoria + in context of reduced access to care Considering detransition Feeling/believing isolated and that they are surrounded by people who hate them Suicidality ⚫ Feeling less impacted by sociopolitical climate than you are

And I'll be talking through how I'm handling these common scenarios with some guidance on ways you can incorporate my suggestions into your own style or mode of psychotherapy.

Some sneak peaks at the bearing witness but from the general approaches section.

1. General steps you can take right away & practice considerations 2 General psychotherapy approaches 3. Responses & strategies for specific scenarios 4. Taking care of ourselves

The agenda for our two hours together

Burning the midnight oil to get this webinar ready for y'all tomorrow. Really pouring my brain and heart into it.

A common and understandable feeling 😞

Thank you for these endorsements ❤️❤️! Also I've gotta learn how things on here work. But I really miss the exchange of ideas and true networking of pre-Musk Twitter. 🤞🏻 I'm hopeful about blue sky. How are you liking it?

When is trans week of everyone shutting the fuck up about us?

Typo in my first post, cmon.

What it looked like outside Moulton's office today, curtesy of Jonathon Cohn.

Democrats should not leave LGBTQ+ people behind. They are a large part of the Democratic base, a force with real voting power, and should not be taken for granted.

Howdy - yes, Sebastian. www.drsebastianbarr.com is my clinical website and transpsychologist.com is my consulting website though they probably both need updates!!

Feeling relieved to have an exit strategy from the Twitterverse. RIP.

Hi trans phd psychologist here! There are a small but growing number of us and we're generally pretty good at supporting each other.

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Please spread the word about this webinar I'm putting together on short notice to address an urgent need. Registrants get access to recording so you don't need to attend live.

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #trans #mentalhealth #election #Trump #stress #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq

Hey bluesky. I am finally migrating and hoping this is a better experience than Twitter became under Musk.

I'm a psychologist and trans man. I work as a research looking at trans mental health and trans people's needs in therapy and as a psychotherapist (working w/diverse clients).