Our kids are mentally struggling and especially vulnerable, and Kooth is seeking to confuse them under the guise of counseling.

From UncoverDC. If you are looking for unbiased virtual counseling services for your children, the UK-based mental health app “Kooth” may not be the way to go. According to The Post, a publication from the UnHerd website, an online blogging community that hopes to “push back against the herd mentality,” the Kooth platform is anything but neutral.

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The 15-year-old platform bills itself as the go-to “online mental health community” for youth, but The Post reports “it is riddled with highly politicised trans-activist assumptions and leaves a user base predominantly composed of unhappy adolescent girls largely free to ‘support’ one another in affirming and intensifying their shared gender confusion.” Kooth is currently available in the UK through the National Health Service (NHS) to “more than 60 percent of” the country’s 10-25 year-olds. …

Kooth executives, CEO Tim Barker, and CFO Sanjay Jawa have now expanded services to the US, announcing a pilot program in Pennsylvania. The program is in response, they say, to the December 2021 announcement from the US Surgeon General Advisory on the Youth Mental Health Crisis. The Biden administration has set aside billions in funding to address mental health issues in youth in the United States. …

In March 2023, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) selected Kooth as the Virtual Services Platform of choice for all 13-25 year-olds in California. The program is slated to launch in January 2024 as a “key component” of Governor Newsom’s $4.7 billion Master Plan for Kids’ Mental Health through the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI).” …

UK Based GIDS at Tavistock Institute Shut down

A well-respected practicing psychoanalyst, David Bell, blew the whistle on gender identity services for youth at the Gender and Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock Institute in the UK. The court found “GIDS was unable to produce for the court any data relating to outcomes and effects, whether desirable or adverse, in children who had been prescribed puberty blockers; nor could it provide details of the number and ages of children who had been given them.”

Dr. Hilary Cass ran an independent review of GIDS, concluding that the service was poorly managed and failed to follow the rigorous protocols necessary to justify life-altering gender-affirming treatments for youth. …

Kooth Advocates for Gender-Affirming Care Model

Kooth has allegedly ignored the recommendations produced by the review and the court ruling. Instead, Kooth allegedly follows guidance from the “affirmation” model “endorsed by the highly politicized British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).” … In some cases, gender-affirming care includes mental health support that excludes parental consent and supports chemical castration and medical procedures that alter one’s gender. …

In the model allegedly espoused by Kooth, therapists would, therefore, be discouraged from questioning or exploring a client’s rationale or ideation about their gender identity. …

Kooth partners with schools, health systems, health plans, and employers to offer “digital mental health therapeutics,” according to information from the US corporate website. …

Transgendertrend.com reports that Kooth may not be safe for all individuals because it is thin on actual human support and tends to politicize gender and sexuality-related topics. Reportedly Kooth’s peer-to-peer counselors may “promote breast binding” without providing “any form of therapy.” … The site leaves open opportunities for immature teenage girls to “self-diagnose and pass on every detail of their latest condition to each other, as they did with tics and Tourette’s during lockdown. It’s a sure-fire way of spreading negative emotions, as girls respond with empathy to the extent that they take on the condition themselves.” …

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