Recently, an acquaintance of an acquaintance (let's call her Dina) heard that I was a therapist and an educator and asked if she could chat with me (she approved this write-up). She shared that she had discovered her therapist was using AI to partially conduct their sessions. While I won't go into how the issue came to light, Dina mentioned that she felt shock and anguish. She was terrified that her protected health information (PHI) and feelings were "out on the internet."
Doctors had told her she was a boy, but that she had an illness, which was why she couldn't urinate standing up. They told me this is a problem, the 60-year-old from Hong Kong says. And that in the future, you cannot marry, you cannot have a baby, so you need to have surgeries. Having been bullied at school for her ambiguous gender presentation, she found the idea that she could be modified back to normal a compelling one.
The votes on the recommendations came after hours of impassioned debate that, at times, devolved into confusion and apparent animosity over the committee's procedures and the safety of vaccines. Healthcare professionals and experts following the committee's meeting were also left deeply confused about the significance of the committee's votes and recommendations, and whether they would make it more difficult for people to obtain Covid vaccines.