Dr. Jack Turban's Quietly Radical Bible On Pediatric Gender Medicine: a Primer

This is an appendix to my review for The New York Sun of the new book by UCSF child psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban, "Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity."

University of California, San Francisco child psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban, who has fashioned himself into the face of pediatric gender medicine.

I just published a review in The New York Sun of the new book by University of California, San Francisco child psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban, Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity. This Substack is an appendix to my review (which I encourage you to read) in which I’ll provide supplementary passages from Turban’s book and other examples of Turban’s public discourse. (Please pardon my rather untidy highlighting and underlining in the images I’ve included of passages from the book.)

What Turban Says About the Evidence Base of Pediatric Gender-Transition Treatment

Turban writes in Free to Be that pediatric gender-affirming medical care, meaning providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors to treat their gender-related distress, “isn’t experimental.” He cites “over a dozen studies” linking the use of these medications to “b…