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Gender-affirming care
This content was last updated Sept. 30, 2023, 12:39 a.m. UTC
Entries Related to Gender-affirming care
Tracy Shannon
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Tracy Shannon is a Texas anti-trans activist who has protested Drag Queen Story Hours at Libraries in her home state and across the country, successfully …
Transgender Trend
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Transgender Trend (also known as Transgender Trend Ltd) is an anti-trans organization that presents itself as feminist, based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2015 …
Gender Health Query
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Gender Health Query (GenderHQ) is an anti-trans activism group with a primarily digital footprint. As an organization, the group presents itself as a collection of …
Partners for Ethical Care
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International Partners for Ethical Care (PEC) is a 501(c)(3) charity and anti-trans activism group in Chicago, Illinois. Operating under the umbrella of parental rights, the …
Patrick Lappert
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Patrick Lappert is a plastic surgeon who provided expert testimony in opposition to transgender healthcare in multiple cases despite the fact that he has never …
The Kelsey Coalition
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The Kelsey Coalition (TKC) is a mostly-defunct anti-trans activism group in the United States. Primarily active between 2019-2020, the organization operates under the umbrella of …
Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics
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Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics (ReIME) is an anti-trans 501(c)(3) charity based in Dover, Delaware. Founded by Jane Wheeler, previously a human rights lawyer, the organization’s …
Brandt et al vs. Rutlege et al
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Brandt et al v. Rutledge et al is a court case challenging the legality of an Arkansas state bill, Act 626, that seeks to restrict …
Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research
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The Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research (ICGDR) is a group in Providence, Rhode Island founded by Lisa Littman. Its membership suggests close ties to …
Abigail Shrier
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Abigail Shrier is a conservative activist, attorney, writer, and contributor to Bari Weiss’ Free Press based in Los Angeles, CA. She is best known as …
Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine
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The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt political organization that promotes medical misinformation surrounding gender-affirming care. Many of those associated …
Jeannette Cooper
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Jeannette Cooper is an anti-trans activist in Chicago, Illinois. She is the parent of a transgender child who lost custody and visitation rights after refusing …
Jennifer Lahl
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Jennifer Lahl is an activist and documentarian based in Pleasant Hill, California. For much of her filmmaking career, Lahl has focused on the subject of …
Vernadette Broyles
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Vernadette Broyles Vernadette Broyles is an American attorney in Georgia, and the president, general counsel and founder of the Child and Parental Rights Campaign (CPRC), …
Prisha Mosley
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Prisha Mosley is an political detransitioner activist living in Michigan who has been used as a spokesperson for the restriction of gender-affirming care for trans …
Billy Burleigh
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Billy Burleigh is an anti-trans activist in Lompoc, California, known for having struggled with his gender identity for large periods of his life. His testimony …
Madeleine Kearns
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Madeleine “Maddy” Kearns is a Scottish-American journalist working at National Review and as a contributor to The Spectator. She has been publishing with National Review …
Walt Heyer
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Walt Heyer is California-born Christian detransition activist, one of a very small number of detransitioned people who politically oppose transgender rights. Heyer originally transitioned in …
Jesse Singal
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Jesse Singal is an American journalist and podcaster, most known for a 2018 article about detransitioners in The Atlantic which was heavily criticized by prominent …
John Ketcham
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John Ketcham is the American director of state and local policy for the conservative think tank Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He has frequently published …
Quentin Van Meter
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Dr. Quentin Van Meter is a pediatrician and anti-trans activist in Atlanta, Georgia, who is most known for his work as the ex-president for the …
Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson is an American conservative political commentator and media personality. He is best known for hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from November …
Jill Glover
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Jill Glover is a committeewoman for the governing board of the Republican Party of Texas for senate district 12. She supports conversion therapy and opposes …
Amy E. Sousa
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Amy E. Sousa is an educator and anti-trans activist in Washington. Most of Sousa’s public-facing activism revolves around opposition to gender-affirming care for transgender individuals …
Miriam Grossman
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Dr. Miriam R. Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, author, and anti-trans activist based in New Hampton, New York. She is a senior fellow …
4thWaveNow
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4th Wave Now (stylized 4thWaveNow) began as an anti-trans blog in the radical feminist tradition that became a community website. Focusing on the supposed medicalization …
Jeff Younger
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Jeff Younger is a failed political candidate in Dallas, Texas who ran for the Texas State House of Representatives in 2022 as a Republican. The …
Gender Identity Challenge
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Gender Identity Challenge, (GENID) also known as Gender Identity Challenge Scandinavia, Gender Identity Challenge Norway, and (currently) Gender Identity Challenge Sweden, is a Sweden-based organization …
Family Research Council
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Family Research Council (FRC) is an evangelical Christian lobbying group and Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group. Emerging as a central figure in anti-LGBTQ+ and …
Genspect
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Genspect is a gender critical organization known for promoting anti-trans causes in many different countries’ legislative processes, and for spearheading or supporting many anti-trans projects …
Institute for Research & Evaluation
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The Institute for Research & Evaluation (IRE) is an organization that is primarily dedicated to promoting abstinence-only sex education. Director Stan E. Weed of IRE …
Roberto D’Angelo
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Roberto D’Angelo is an Australian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and the president of SEGM (at least as of 2020), a group devoted to spreading misinformation about …
Lisa Marchiano
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Lisa Marchiano is an American psychotherapist, author, and one of the co-hosts of podcast This Jungian Life. She is a self-described “Jungian analyst,” and early …
Stanley Goldfarb
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Stanley Goldfarb is a conservative nephrologist who has begun building a career opposing transgender care through his organization, Do No Harm, which opposes critical race …
Abel Garcia
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Abel Garcia is an anti-trans activist in Texas, known for his vocal opposition to gender-affirming care for minors after his struggles with his gender identity. …
Do No Harm
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Do No Harm (DNH) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created by Stanley Goldfarb and incorporated in Virginia. Originally founded to oppose diversity initiatives in the …
Jamie Reed
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Jamie Reed is a former employee of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She is most known for making unsubstantiated allegations …
Kevin Whitt
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Kevin Whitt is an anti-LGBTQ+ activist in Texas, primarily known for identifying as an “ex-gay” drag queen. Whitt is a Christian convert whose life story …
Keira Bell
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Keira Bell is British anti-trans activist, known primarily for her involvement in a 2020 UK court case pertaining to the prescription of hormone blockers to …
Susan Evans
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Susan Evans is an English psychotherapist and the wife of psychoanalyst Marcus Evans, with whom she co-authored the 2021 book Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model …
Mark Regnerus
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Dr. Mark Regnerus is a sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Texas, in Austin. His work is focused on sexual behavior, marriage …
Stephen B. Levine
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Stephen Barrett Levine is a psychiatrist and researcher on sexual dysfunction who has been practicing with trans individuals as part of that rubric since the …
Chloe Cole
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Chloe Cole is the chosen name of Chloe Brockman, a California-born anti-trans activist who is notable for detransitioning before the age of eighteen. Her activism …
Lynn Meagher
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Lynn Meagher is a conservative activist primarily dedicated to opposing gender-affirming care for minors. She gained attention when she was interviewed for an article about …
Paul Hruz
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Paul Hruz is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and a member of The American College …
Laura Perry Smalts
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Laura Perry Smalts is an anti-trans activist in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Smalts’ nearly decade-long struggle with her gender identity and conversion to Christianity have been …
Matt Walsh
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Matt Walsh is an American conservative podcaster, anti-transgender activist, author, and self-described theocratic fascist from the Nashville, Tennessee area. He is best known as the …
Fred Deutsch
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Fred Deutsch is an American Republican politician, a member of South Dakota’s House of Representatives. He is best known as the author of one of …
Andrew Bailey
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Andrew Bailey is the 44th Attorney General of Missouri. Appointed to office in January of 2023, Bailey has been active in using his office to …
Chris Beck
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Chris Beck is an ex-Navy Seal, activist, and unsuccessful political candidate from Long Island, New York. Beck entered the public eye in the 2010s after …
André Van Mol
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André Van Mol is a family physician employed at Dignity Health Medical Group—North State, and co-chair of fringe conservative doctor’s group American College of Pediatricians’ …
Stella O'Malley
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Stella O’Malley is an Irish conversion therapist, anti-transgender activist, and founder or co-founder of multiple anti-transgender groups who has written against conversion therapy bans. She …
Michael Laidlaw
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Michael Laidlaw is an American endocrinologist, a former member of the conservative group American College of Pediatricians and a member of the defunct Pediatric and …
Roger Hiatt
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Roger Hiatt is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has provided testimony in court in favor of bills that ban gender-affirming care to minors. He …
Marcus Evans
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Marcus Evans is an English psychoanalyst and the husband of psychotherapist Susan Evans, with whom he co-authored the 2021 book Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model …
Faith & Freedom Coalition
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Faith & Freedom Coalition (FFC) is a conservative Christian non-profit dedicated to political advocacy. It is most known for hosting the annual Road to Majority …
Gender Exploratory Therapy Association
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Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (GETA) is a non-profit organization that promotes gender exploratory therapy, an alternative to the affirming model of treatment that seeks to …
Leor Sapir
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Leor Sapir is an Israeli academic and fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, an American conservative think tank. He is best known for …
Jon Uhler
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Jon Uhler is an American Licensed Professional Counselor and conservative anti-transgender activist. He is the founder of self help website SurvivorSupport.net and church outreach organization …
Steven Hotze
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Steven F. Hotze is a conservative physician, political activist, and talk radio show host. He has been responsible for funding many anti-LGBTQ+ candidates across his …
Margaret Clarke
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Margaret Clarke is an American attorney, Christian right activist, and the volunteer general counsel for anti-transgender conservative interest advocacy group Eagle Forum. She is one …
G. Kevin Donovan
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Gerard Kevin Donovan, known publicly as G. Kevin Donovan, is a Catholic pediatric gastroenterologist and bioethicist who has testified against transgender healthcare in the Florida …
Stephanie Winn
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Stephanie Winn is a therapist and anti-trans activist in Portland, Oregon. Winn describes her approach to therapy as being limited to adults and parents, but …
International Perspectives Conference
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The International Perspectives Conference is an upcoming event from the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine taking place from October 9, 2023, until October 12, 2023 …
Michael Artigues
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Michael Artigues is a pediatrician, anti-transgender activist, and the current president of anti-transgender activist organization the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), not to be confused …
Advocates Protecting Children
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Advocates Protecting Children (APC) is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist Christian organization working to oppose “gender ideology” within institutions such as schools and churches. They share …
Medical Institute for Sexual Health
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The Medical Institute for Sexual Health (MISH) is an abstinence education group in Dallas, Texas. Founded by Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr. in the early 1990s, …
Helen Lewis
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Helen Lewis is a British journalist who is currently employed as a staff writer for The Atlantic and formerly as an editor for The New …
Avi Ring
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Avi Ring is a Norwegian academic with ties to various medical misinformation and anti-trans political organizations, including the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) …
Julia Mason
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Julia Mason is an American pediatrician who opposes some of the mainstream consensus on gender-affirming care but does not support full bans on gender-affirming care. …
Parents of ROGD Kids
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Parents of ROGD Kids (PROGDK) is an anti-transgender activist organization that presents itself as both an advocacy and support group for the un-affirming parents of …