The Portman Clinic and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: eugenic hotbeds |
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Any transgender person in the United Kingdom, especially young people, should avoid the Portman Clinic at all costs. They are as bad or worse than the CAMH Clarke Institute in Canada, widely considered the worst of the worst in terms of eugenic-oriented mental institutions that treat gender-variant people as criminals.
From Lynn Conway‘s excellent write-up:
The Guardian (UK): “Porn addicts, sex offenders, rapists, paedophiles...Simon Garfield meets the therapists helping the people who can’t help themselves”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/23/health-wellbeing-therapy-society“The Institute (Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency) had been formed to examine the fringes of society. Founded during the political and social upheaval of the interwar years, it dealt with those thrown up and then tossed aside by a turbulent world, and its mainstay was troubled youth. The clinic attracted the psychoanalytical superstars of the day . . . The Institute saw cases of habitual criminality, desperate addiction, extreme violence and sexual perversion. Today, 75 years later, under its less revealing but more aesthetically pleasing name of the Portman Clinic, two things have changed. The caseload has increased and there’s a lot more sex.”
“. . . I asked whether it would be possible to speak to a patient, or hear a specific case study. . . I was told this would be out of the question. . . . if a patient believed that their case was being discussed with a stranger, or if they even suspected that a disguised description might be depicting them, then years of intricate work and hard-won trust could be jeopardised. . . But Ruszczynski did give me a copy of an audit showing the reason that patients were referred to the Portman. Most were there because of ‘compulsive sexual behaviours’ - fetishism, transvestism, transsexualism - and some for sexual and criminal offences, including exhibitionism. The most severe cases made up about 17 per cent of the total: rape, paedophilia, sexual assault.”
[Note how the Portman Clinic classifies transgender and transsexual people as ‘compulsive’ sexual deviants, and lumps them in among pedophiles and rapists. Reminiscent of the Clarke Institute (CAMH) in Toronto (which has a similar historical background), this 75 year old mental health facility is where many young trans youth are sent for “treatment” in the UK today, as you will see at this link.]
