Dr Zucker is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist who has worked in the field of gender since 1975. He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service until its closure in December 2015. Since 2001 he's been editor-in-chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior. In this episode of Transparency, he describes the work that was done with children and adolescents at the CAMH clinic, from a developmental perspective.

This discussion is set in the context of clinician whistleblowers and the Cass Review in the UK which led to an announcement that the UK's central gender clinic at the Tavistock will be closed in the spring of 2023. Per the review, the evidence for the now popular model of care - with little to no psychological framework or therapy - is poor, and harm has been done to young people as a result of hasty medicalization.

Links

A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full

Cass Review: https://cass.independent-review.uk

Jesse Singal - How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html

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