Experiences with Suicide Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement. Art Kusserow 16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Spinning the Tavistock Story Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology. Bernard Lane 23 Sep 2022 · 12 min read
At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged Many families are seeking a process that doesn’t push transition on children who struggle with their biological sex. Stella O’Malley 23 Aug 2022 · 11 min read
Shuttering the Tavistock The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation. Bernard Lane 5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it. Gurwinder Bhogal 26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
We Need to Do Hard Things We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort. Steve Magness 30 Jun 2022 · 12 min read
When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis. Clare Rowe 7 Jun 2022 · 7 min read
Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved. Peter Gajdics 4 Jun 2022 · 10 min read
Art Is Not Therapy Something is flattened when our understanding of art is asked to serve the logic of a medical diagnosis, which sees the messiness of the human condition as a malady to be cured. Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead 12 May 2022 · 10 min read
Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/podcasts/the-daily/transgender-teenagers-clinic-texas.html] , detailing that state’s effort to ban [https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf] “elective procedures for gender transitioning, Lisa Selin Davis 25 Apr 2022 · 9 min read
A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health On her website [https://www.drericaanderson.com/], Berkeley-based clinical psychologist Erica Anderson describes her mission as helping those “who have embarked upon a gender journey.” She also seeks to advance the “shared goals of social justice and transgender well-being,” and offers assistance to anyone seeking to “understand, educate, and level Lisa Selin Davis 6 Jan 2022 · 11 min read