Even the discourses are strikingly similar. Compare the catchphrases: ‘If you think you might be trans, you probably are,’ and ‘No one else can tell you your gender identity,’ with these quotations from The Courage to Heal, a self-help book about recovered-memory syndrome published in 1988: ‘If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were,’ and ‘The patient sometimes knows more about the disorder than the therapist.’
