21-05-2024, 09:09 AM in response to #47476
NWS Wrote: I am going to disagree with you on this one. Rape victims are highly traumatised people - for obvious reasons - and if they go for counselling it is important they get their needs met. This is an area where trans-rights issues need to take a back seat or highly vulnerable people won't come for the counselling they desperately need because they don't trust the counsellor enough to talk about what they need to.
I don't disagree. Where it gets disturbing is the expectation that somebody has to reveal personal, confidential information about themselves on the request of others. If someone isn't comfortable not knowing what genitalia someone else in a case like this then they should of course be able to decline and request somebody else. At the same time it's none of anyone's business if that's information the counsellor doesn't want to share.