Sympathy and empathy are crucial in all aspects of healthcare, but referring to these psychiatric patients as "targeted individuals" seems unwise. It's patronizing and it runs the risk of encouraging further delusions.
That’s the name of their self-organized movement (how they view and call themselves)
Yes, but the author uses the same name with no caveats. E.g. "But if psychiatry’s medical vision is failing TIs like Luca, what should we replace it with?"
I see what you mean and was slightly confused when reading the article as well. The author uses the word probably to take the middle stance, acknowledging those who have it and read the article without discrediting their worldview, when the medical community has already failed them, but still describing what may not line up with reality
Would you make this same statement regarding those suffering from gender dysphoria? Why or why not?
No, because “gender dysphoria” makes no claim about external reality, the way “targeted individual” does.