What The Recovered Memory Movement Can Tell Us About The Gender Affirmation Movement
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What The Recovered Memory Movement Can Tell Us About The Gender Affirmation Movement

Christina Buttons

The recovered memory movement bears uncanny similarities to the modern-day gender affirmation movement.

During the 1980s and 1990s, mental health professionals and psychiatrists began a widespread trend of uncovering “repressed memories” in their patients. It was later discovered that this practice amounted to instilling false beliefs in people that caused immeasurable harm to individuals, families, and even placed innocent people in prison.

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